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RE: Latest Delivery - Vinny - 02-25-2016
Does this mean Tom is going to start making pipe organs?
RE: Latest Delivery - TomG - 02-26-2016
Maybe. Just planning ahead for the bucket list.
RE: Latest Delivery - Vinny - 02-26-2016
ooh!!! I'm gonna be drivin out to Farmington Hills!!!!
RE: Latest Delivery - awemawson - 02-26-2016
I recognised it straight away having seen the video link you posted a few days ago. What amazes me is that you've found a source of them.
I trust that you are going to cast / strickle out your own pewter sheets as per the video?
RE: Latest Delivery - Mayhem - 02-26-2016
New pipes for the Chevelle Tom???
RE: Latest Delivery - pepi - 02-26-2016
Got to be side pipes
RE: Latest Delivery - TomG - 02-26-2016
I've always been fascinated by pipe organs and thought I might try my hand at making a pipe or two. I'm going to be building up North soon and if I like it, maybe I'll include a loft in the shop. :)
A lot of uncommon tools and materials are used, so I've been accumulating them when I see them. Many can be fabricated, but for some like the iron, there is no substitute for the real thing.
This iron was extremely tough to find in the U.S., even with the internet. The only supplier I found that actually had one was wholesale only and wouldn't sell to an individual. I started an email exchange with a builder in Washington and he offered to buy one for me, but then I found another builder closer but by chance I found another one relatively close by. I also picked up a slab of marble on Craigslist for the casting bench and have been accumulating tin and lead. There is also the sizing (resist) made of gum arabic, calcium carbonate (chalk), and stearine candles for the flux. Definitely not something commonly found in Home Depot.
Tom
RE: Latest Delivery - pepi - 02-26-2016
Pipe organs do have a unique sound and are massive. Being in field service I have had the opportunity to look a pipe organ over and they are quite the machine. Must be the largest musical instrument correct, the elephant of the tunes ?
I am thinking it would take a tall loft and a room as large as a two car garage minimum even for a small pipe organ.
RE: Latest Delivery - rleete - 02-26-2016
(02-25-2016, 06:50 PM)TomG Wrote: Nice indicator Pepi!
The brown truck brought this today. Any guesses?
Tom
![[Image: 20160225_183346.jpg]](http://photos.imageevent.com/tomgriffin/generalstuff/large/20160225_183346.jpg)
Obviously, it's an electric hammer.
RE: Latest Delivery - f350ca - 02-26-2016
That would be a neat project Tom. You could build a Calliope and go mobile.
![[Image: percy_and_the_calliope_rewrite_by_okamit...4sauxt.png]](http://img02.deviantart.net/8adb/i/2012/071/8/3/percy_and_the_calliope_rewrite_by_okamitakahashi-d4sauxt.png)