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Happened onto a Ship Being Built - Daniel S - 11-13-2015
My girlfriend and I are visiting some friends in the San Francisco area and happened upon a really cool spot. One of the guys working showed us around. It was probably one of the coolest woodworking things I've seen.
http://educationaltallship.org/
http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w493...zpsdbatqpdm.jpg
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - Herb G - 11-13-2015
Man, those are some serious power tools.
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - Daniel S - 11-13-2015
I meant to post this in the woodworking forum. They definitely had some great power tools.
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - iclark - 11-13-2015
I;m just happy that you posted the pics.
What is that tool behind the BS?
What kind of boat/ship are they building?
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - Boatman53 - 11-14-2015
Happy birthday iclark. This is my world although on a much grander scale.
I think what you are actually seeing is part of the band saw itself. It's called a ships saw, the table always stays horizontal, for bevels both wheels rotate through the arc of that 'C'. There should be a crank off to the side so that as a big frame is cut to shape the "apprentice" would be cranking furiously so the changing bevel is cut at the same time as the frame. Very efficient.
Jim
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - iclark - 11-14-2015
Jin,
Thank you for the explanation and for the B'day wish.
Both are appreciated.
Ivan
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - Anji12305 - 11-14-2015
Lot of work putting that frame around the hole in the water.
Money goes in through the top and magically disappears...
From my neck of the woods:
http://iyrs.edu/
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - Daniel S - 11-14-2015
iclark, their website calls it a brigantine. They had a couple of very large bandsaws that didn't tilt also.
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - TGW - 11-16-2015
Yep.
That bandsaw is a "ship saw". As a Scandinavian traditionalist I don't like some of the American style woodworking machines....... but American style ship saws are excellent machines we Europeans cannot match only envy.
I wish someone had exported them to my country.
Re: Happened onto a Ship Being Built - cputnam - 11-16-2015
I wonder what they use that little Ridgid vac for?