Well, I re-learned a lesson last night….over and over I go to the workshop at night to relieve stress from a stressful day at the office…and invariably I screw something up. Woodworking relaxes me, but until I am sufficiently relaxed I am not focused enough for delicate or dangerous work. This is why I am not good at golf.
If I am tense and tired, it is no time to try to do delicate work with power tools. At best, I damage a project, at worst, I damage myself.
Last night I got lucky and only damaged a project. I tired to "improve" the 1/16-inch diameter deviation on the French Baker’s Pin that I made my wife (mentioned in an earlier post.) Instead, I made the deviation significantly worse. I was trying to use a "sizing tool" attached to a parting tool (sort of a "C" bracket that attaches to the parting tool with thumb screws). I set the tool at the desired diameter and swept it back and forth across the length of the baker’s pin.
While the sizing tool does help to create a piece of uniform size, it causes tons of tear-out. Seems like this tool is only good for sizing grooves in a piece, and not rounding to a uniform diameter.
Back to the drawing board for other methods to create an "exact" uniform diameter spindle.
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Matthew Sanfilippo is currently Executive Director of PSII (Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator) and the CenSCIR (Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure), Associate Director of ICES (Institute for Complex Engineered Systems), and Associate Director of PITA (Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
Prior to CMU, Matthew was Director of Applied Technology for Michael Baker Corporation, a large engineering and energy services firm. Matt managed a technology consulting division for Baker including Geographic Information System (GIS), software and web development, multimedia, virtual reality (VR), visualization, Global Positioning System (GPS), mapping and surveying services.
Before joining Baker, Matt was an Innovation Director for Redleaf Group, a Venture Capital/Operating Company focused on Information Security, Supply Chain, Network and Mobility Solutions. While at Redleaf, Matt managed technical due diligence for seed-stage investments and coordinated relationships between Redleaf and their partner companies after investment.
Prior to Redleaf, Matt was CIO of GZA GeoEnvironmental Technologies, a Boston-based engineering firm, and operations manager for their Internet start-up division that focused on web-technologies for health and safety and manufacturing metrics.
Matt is current board member and past Chairman of the Board for the Botanic Garden of Western Pennsylvania, a board member of the Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF), and a former member of the Information Sciences and Technology Advisory Board for the Pennsylvania State University Beaver. Matt is also a former Vice President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Association of Internet Professionals and former Vice President of the Board of Trustees for Baker Combined Charity of Pennsylvania.
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