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274653 | Bill Ghio | 2021‑10‑08 | Do you trammel? |
I don’t often need to use my trammel set, but every once in a while I do need to layout a curve beyond the reach of my largest dividers. I found this set in an antique shop about 25 years ago. They were laying, dismantled, in a patternmaker’s tool chest that had been well plundered without regard to whether the tool was complete or not. There was a full set of curved bottoms but the plane body was missing. The trammel bodies were there as was the beam, but no points. I brought the trammel parts and a user made 14 inch mahogany bevel home with me. This is a big set, the beam is 31 inches long. So I made the points six inches long as that seemed to fit the scale of the thing. I found some mild steel rod that fit the brass clamps. Holding one end in a vice I filed the other end to a four sided taper ending in a point. That then became an eight sided taper and then sixteen. You know the drill. Then I chucked the tapered points into a drill press an ran the file against the spinning point till it was all nicely rounded. Then polished with fine papers. Being finely polished, even after all these years there has never been a spec of rust. One nice feature of the trammel is that you can replace the point with a pencil when needed and it fits just fine. Photos are here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/77280442@N.../albums/721577199832 63196/with/51565531718/ The last pic in the album is an early trammel set. I always thot they were Stanley, but looking at the drawing in Walter’s big book they appear to be different. I find no manuf. marks. Anybody recognize these? FYI, the short center shaft screwed into the beam is a pencil holder that can replace one of the points. Bill |
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274654 | Paul Drake <bdbafh@g...> | 2021‑10‑08 | Re: Do you trammel? |
Bill. I saw that last set at an auction in Robesonia PA probably 5-6 years ago. I didn't get the bid. Buyer did think that they were Stanley. Paul On Fri, Oct 8, 2021, 15:10 Bill Ghio via groups.io |
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274667 | scottg <scottg@s...> | 2021‑10‑09 | Re: Do you trammel? |
Wow Bill, this is a cool set! Massive! I see trammel fixtures but seldom a beam to go with, and this is a really honkin big outfit! I had one lonely orphan clamp and decided I needed an "in between" compass. (I have lots of regular compasses and an ordinary Starrett trammel set) So I grabbed a scrap of rosewood and built this around it. http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/compass1.jpg yours scott -- ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039 scottg@s... http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/ http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html |
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274668 | cowtown_eric <ecoyle@t...> | 2021‑10‑09 | Re: Do you trammel? |
Do I trammel? Of course! I'm a sucker for them Many years ago Satanley trammels were 100+ on the 'bay, but on the drafting tool side you could get micro adjustable steel beam trammels for 15% of that. That has changed now. After many years, I've got a fair number of them. From trammels you may likely translate into ellipsographs! Fair warning....tis another slippery slope....been there and done that. Eric |
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274670 | gary allan may | 2021‑10‑10 | Re: Do you trammel? |
That's lovely Scott! You must really get happy when a compassing job comes along. best to you; gam in OlyWA/USA How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing one cares for none of them! Jane Austen On Saturday, October 9, 2021, 09:19:03 AM PDT, scottg |
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274679 | Pete Bergstrom <petebergstrom@g...> | 2021‑10‑11 | Re: Do you trammel? |
Nice save, Bill! I have a set similar to your last pictures. They came mounted on an 18" beam, likely walnut, and stamped "E.J.Young". I probably found them 20 years ago in a garage sale in St. Paul. (Also possibly from a MWTC meeting, but I think I'd remember that more.) I haven't cleaned these up in all that time, but I dug them out of storage to compare to your picture. One point looks soldered in; the other is threaded for removal and I don't have the pencil holder. Pete A little north of Seattle On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 12:10 PM Bill Ghio via groups.io |
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274684 | David Sobel | 2021‑10‑11 | Re: Do you trammel? |
> On Oct 8, 2021, at 3:10 PM, Bill Ghio via groups.io |
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274689 | Mark van Roojen <mvr1@e...> | 2021‑10‑12 | Re: Do you trammel? |
David Sobel wrote: >I have not had the good fortune to find a nice set of trammel points >in the wild. I was inspired by a beautiful set made by Brian >Buckner. When I bought a miniature metal lathe with a mill column, I >decided to make my own. Those came out really well. I'm impressed. - Mark |
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