Cutting Paterns for Sink Tubes

[Jay-gon Jinn]

Or, you could use a Metal cutting disc on your Compound miter Saw and not need a design drawn.

That's what I do.

that calculatr is a nice find, though.

[cardcollector]

Maybe it is as worthless as you all seem to think but I thought it was a neat find.

Not at all, In fact it is a rather good find.

New ideas like to be discussed here, and all possible ways to do something like to be presented.

There will never be a "end all,be all" solution to cutting sinktube. Some prefer graph paper, some (like you) like to use computers, and some just freehand it.

If making sinktube templets with the software is your favorite way, by all means do it!

Thanks for sharing your ideas, it is the way better things are learned.

[Tenric Starkindler]

I think that calculator IS a great find.....especially for those new to saber making.

That being said I just cheat.....I wrap the graph paper around the tube and lightly sketch what i want it to look like...then flatten it out and clean it up. This way it was drawn on the curved surface and matches my vision better.

I also use a black permanent marker and completely tape over the graph paper when cutting. This keeps it from moving at all while I am cutting.

[Rhyen Skytracker]

I found a neat little trick with that program. If you set the second diameter (parent tube) smaller than the 1st tube diameter it will give you a second dip in the layout. I have tried at different angles and it looks pretty cool.

[thejedilestat]

well im just playing with this now and i think it works i tryed the graph paper kinda worked but this is still cool and the way i think im gonna go

[Invisas1979]

I've just started fabricating my first saber using a 14in angled steel tube. I wish i'd know about this calculator as my 45 degree angle was looking curved. I've given it a straight lip and a slight curve, which I actually like as it's a bit more real and less clinical. That said I may well use it for the chassis that's going inside it.

Good bit of information. It's like Tesco in here "every little helps". ha ha

[Onli-Won Kanomi]

Thanks Jaghati this is a good find, especially for those of us who DON'T have full workshops with compound miter saws eh?

[Darth_DevilGuy]

Thanks Jaghati this is a good find, especially for those of us who DON'T have full workshops with compound miter saws eh?

My thoughts exactly, some of us don't have room to set a miter saw up, this will help me get similar results without the equipment, maybe harder to do, but it opens up new options for me.

[ronzomi]

Good pics.
Mathematically speaking, those are sine waves of varying amplitudes and periods. Flip them 90 degrees and plot them along an x-axis, and it looks more like what you are used to seeing on your oscilloscope. You can look up how to do these plots from any old highschool trig or calc book. Standard graph paper works fine. I didn't look too close but if you go to www.wolframalpha.com and type in and equation you should be ble to get the graph and print it out. You may have to tweak on the scaling a-bit.

[gundamaniac]

Very cool! For my friend's 12-hour Christmas saber, I Dremeled the angular cuts using graph paper. I did notice that there would be an issue with curvature, so I tried free-handing a curve into my graph paper template to correct for that. It turned out looking pretty decent I think, but the calculator will definitely be more accurate. Great find!