Rim Making DVD

NOTE: The rim making DVD is still available, but I am making the contents public via YouTube videos. The DVD is higher resolution, but the content is the same as the YouTube Videos.
You can access the YouTube videos here.

HOW TO ORDER
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The simplest way: go directly to PayPal.
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I apologize for this nonsense, but my web host does not have a very sophisticated shopping cart. Follow these instructions carefully or you will end up paying more than you have to:

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The result is you end up paying the the same total as $39.95 plus $5 for shipping. If you are ordering multiple items, just choose the cheapest option or the option that suits you best.

THANKS!

Volume 1: Introducing the Rim Lathe
Volume 1: Introducing the Rim Lathe

A TESTIMONIAL

Dear Banjomakers:

On a lark, I purchased a DVD via eBay auction from Mr. Mark Hickler, the keeper of the informative and lavishly illustrated azbanjo website. The DVD focused on Mr. Hickler's inventive assembly of a lathe designed to finish either steamed or blocked rim forms. He ingeniously configured two moveable cross slides that accommodate cutting tools for shaping the exterior and the interior in modest increments, and with an accuracy and control not generally possible on ordinary wood lathes.  more...

$39.95

Banjo Technology for the Small Shop
Volume 1: Introducing the Rim Lathe

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"Your video is excellent" - Bill Rickard of the Banjo Workshop

PRESS RELEASE:

"Several years ago, Mark Hickler, author of this video set out to solve the fundamental problems of banjo making for the small-shop environment. Normal wood lathes do not have the means to guide cutting tools with the accuracy necessary to fit tone rings or other banjo hardware. Metal lathes have this capability, but to turn an 11” diameter requires a metal lathe that is too massive and expensive for the small shop. The lathe Mark has designed occupies a mere 4.3 square feet of shop space!"

This video is an introduction to this amazing lathe created with off-the-shelf parts that can turn banjo rims to tolerances of a few thousandths of an inch.

To showcase the capabilities of the rim lathe Mark demonstrates every step in creating an 11” rim with a rolled-brass tonering from a rough laminated rim blank:

• Accurate tonering fitting
• Measurement strategies
• Faceplate turning
• Indexing jig for locating bracket shoe holes
• Cutting tools and tool holders
• Using cross slides for accurate tool control
• Expanding jaw chuck
• Making and using "false jaws"
• Introduction to block rim construction

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