Shop Made Drum Sander

Jeremy,
Your absoultly right; some levelers on the feet, inlay on the top supports, maybe some fluting on the legs, dye to bring out the beauty of the two-by material, and a chip carving of the view from your shop window…Since you’ve gotten the functionality figured out, why not use it to practice something else?

Nice job, with every panel I wish I had a drum sander.
Robb

How do you feed stock through? push it? or does it have a feed mechanism?

Nice! This is on my list of projects to make as I’ll probably be making lots of doors in the near future. I’ve been accused of being a pack rat too so just a few parts to buy and I’m almost there. Looks like this is a winning design, it’s starting to look familiar.

I’ve always wondered… Do you think the epoxy is absolutely necessary for the drum? Is there is a concern about heat undoing PVA glue?

Finish? Rub a coat of linseed oil on it. It makes even 2×4s look good.

Happy sanding, Jeremy.

-- Steve, New Zealand, www.steveracz.com

Hey Steve, where do you get pillow blocks around here?

-- The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep...

Hi Jeremy, this cool man!

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Nice job Jeremy.
You will need a wide flat push stick it you are going to put the material through manually to control you feed and prevent divots.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

I’d love to have a drum sander and I’ve toyed with the idea of making one. Yours looks great!

I can’t tell from the photos… how is the depth of cut adjusted?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Steve, I believe epoxy is preferred to bond the wood to the steal shaft. I did think about using some gorilla glue but i didn’t want to experiment when epoxy had already been tried successfully.

Charlie, you can see from the third pic there is a wood handle on a threaded rod. you simply turn it to raise and lower the bed (its attached with piano hinge on the back support). I’ve been thinking of making some sort of adjustment gauge for the bed but i think i will use the sander a while to determine what is needed.

-- Jeremy, North Dakota

Great result Jeremy; thanks for the mention. “Pack Rat”.. I don’t know the expression, but it’s probably the same as being a Yorkshiremen – or a Scot??

Here’s mine for reference…

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Oh, now I see. If it were a snake, it would have bit me. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Nice Job! The website you mentioned is very thorough. Very cool!!!

-- Sharp tools and thin whispy shavings make woodworking a joy.

Nice.. this is on my list to do… but boy-o-boy do I have a long list… lol.

I like the simplicity of this design, great job!

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

Jeremy, thats pretty cool, it’s allways fun to tinker and come up with something that works, nice job.