ROD MAKING EQUPMENT

PRECISION BUILT ADJUSTABLE FORMERS 

All forms are built from high grade steel bars. The bars are stress relieved to stop warping. They can be made in lengths to suit the rod you want to make. One side of the form is to plane tip sections the other butt sections. They are doweled to keep the faces of the form inline and have push pull screws every 5" to set the form to the taper required. The forms are ground on a surface grinder with optical wheel dressing to ensure that the angles are  accurate.    

•  5ft 6" Forms are available from £650.00
•  Longer than 5ft 6" Forms (up to 7ft) can be manufactured for a price on request
• Rough planing forms can be made to personally required sizes (these have push pull screws every 12") available from   £400..00
• Splicing Jig (for joining nodeless sections) available from £360.00
• Setting Clock (an imperial or metric dial indicator with 60 degree point and base for setting planing forms) available from £95.00
• Setting Master (a precision ground block with a 60 degree groove 0.100 deep for setting of 60 degree point on the depth clock. After long use the point of the clock can become worn. By using this gauge the clock is set using the flanks of the 60 degree stylus thus always giving an accurate reading on the depth of the former) Available from £60.00
• Binding Jig (a very simple unit for binding glued sections of bamboo together. Built on the lines of the Garrison binder) available from £420.00

         A deposit of 50% is required when ordering rod making items.

THE HEXAPLANE

     The Hexaplane is a hand planing device I designed in 1980. It will plane rod strips very accuratly and fast. 

 On this unit the prepared strips are placed on an adjustable bed and the 60 degree strips are planed in one setting. The cutting blades are made by myself in high speed steel or tungston carbide. You can regrind the blades simply on a grinding wheel using an angle checking device. The rod taper is set by putting a dial indicator on the hexaplane and it is moved along the bed way and adjusted to the taper. The strips are held in position with pins  or clamps.

   Cutters can be supplied to make four or five sided rods.    POA

 A  deposit of 50% is required when ordering