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A little project to warm me up for the oncoming winter.
I got an e-mail from the place that I bought the pucks and wax for my shuffleboard table.
They were selling a set of bowling pins for about $40. I figured that I could make them a lot cheaper. Like for nothing.
I wanted them to all be exactly alike, so with my lack of skills on the lathe, I decided to use my Legacy mill with a following template. You can see it in the fourth picture. In the fifth picture you can see them roughed out. From there I put them on my Jet mini lathe for final smoothing and sanding.
The wood is something called White Limba. I thought I would buy a piece on eBay just to see what it was like. Well, it’s mostly white but has black streaks in it. Basically it sucks. I had a piece of 8/4 so I used it for these.
The third picture shows a little pin setting device I came up with. Makes it a snap.
The design is a scaled down version from a drawing of a 10 pin I found online.
Two coats of water based Poly and they are ready to go. It adds another game to my shuffleboard table.
-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.
13 comments so far
a1Jim
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posted 23 days ago
Hey Gary
good to hear from you. Looks like a fun project. It’s good use for wood you want to use up. Even a cool pin setting device. Fun project . Great job a project you did very easily I’m sure.
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TomFran
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posted 23 days ago
Very cool. Nice work, Gary!
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TopamaxSurvivor
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posted 23 days ago
Looks like you are set for long winter nights on the alley ;-)) They truned out great .
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cobra5
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posted 23 days ago
looks like your longgggg winter nights are pinned down, great job
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Scott Bryan
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posted 23 days ago
This is a pretty neat project, Gary. And the pin setter was an imaginative addition as well.
Nice job.
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lew
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posted 23 days ago
Gary,
Cool idea for making them all identical! Looks like you and your daughter will have fun “bowling them over”
Nice to read your posts again.
Lew
nmkidd
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posted 23 days ago
Very innovative. Your pin setter reminds me of the rack used on a pool table…....and it sure beats hand setting the pins.
Great job.
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sharad
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posted 23 days ago
Nice to see you back with this nice creation.
Sharad
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Joe Lyddon
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posted 23 days ago
COOL method…
Thank you!
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zlatanv
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posted 23 days ago
Nice.
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Packman
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posted 23 days ago
Excellent work Gary ….. how do you like the Legacy Mill?
Ray
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Napaman
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posted 22 days ago
SWEET!!!!
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rtb
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posted 22 days ago
I’m not sure is winter in east Texas 3 or is it 4 weeks long ? otherwise very nice.
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