Taper Lam Sleds

[Crooked Stic]

For you guys who do your own tapered lams I would like to see some pics of your sleds. I have a new Grizzly Drum sander and want to get set up to do tapers.

[Wild Russian]

Me too....

[Crooked Stic]

Anybody?

[Ric Anderson]

I can probably post a picture but it would be hard to see the taper.  My sleds are 40" long and are machined out of aircraft aluminum that is approx. 5/8" thick.

[ethan]

I have a  8"X40" board with my taper sanded in. I took an old sanding belt and glued/stapled it to the board. I just lay my lams ontop of the sanding belt and it holds fine. I do not have any pics though.

[Mohawkbows]

Ric,
How do you hold your lam to the aluminum, with double sided tape?

Thanks Vince

[Ric Anderson]

Vince, I just contact cement some 80 or 100 grit sandpaper to the sled, making sure that it is laying flat the whole length.  I only spray the cement on the back of the paper, which allows easy removal from the sled when the paper needs replacing.  I forgot to mention that my sleds are 5" wide which allows me to grind 2 lams at once.

[Mohawkbows]

Thanks Rick!
That's a good idea to grind two at a time, did you have a machine shop build your sled, if so what did they charge you for that.
I want to try grinding my own lams as soon as I get one of these elk to co-operate with me, it's like there is an invisible fence at 30 yards! Can't quite get em close enough.
Vince

[tim-flood]

there was an article in TB about making lams this year, and he went into how he made his fixtures

[warden415]

Tim, do you remember what month that article was? I looked through old copies and couldn't find it? warden415

[shaft slinger]

the only one i know of is the spring 2006 bowyer journal by jack harrison , preparing and grinding laminations    hope this helps

[warden415]

thanks , harold

[recurvericky]

Does anyone have a copy of the spring 2006 bowters journal article on grinding lams by Jack harrison? I would like to see this. I only started getting the magazine last summer.

[twisted]

Hey guys check out varcher.com i think thats it hes also a tradg member aswell he has a nice one he built plus he came up with a little jig he made for prechecking tiller of lamb to nice guy to  twisted

[V-Archer]

I made these grinders to taper my lams. The first one is for lengths up to ~35", the one with the belt sander for lengths up to ~70".
After that I can check the pre-tiller using my tiller stick with a detachable extra jig on top of it.

V-Archer    

 
This one is for short lams.

 
This one is for longer lams.

Pre-tiller jig to check the tiller
 

 

 

[Buemaker]

Here is one I showed a year and a half ago.
Could be some new people since then.  Bue--.

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=029495

[shaft slinger]

st ic, here is one i made to use with the grizzy

[Crooked Stic]

Yep I had a alum. one made also. Mine is just the plate with no legs. Works really good so far.