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Andy all I can say is WOW. That is a project.
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Andy!! I think you need a dedicated thread!
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Mad pipe organ spewing premix Blendsall,
a fog machine?
Excellent
a fog machine?
Excellent
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HappyHighwayman
It's all in the reflexes
16 years
ctwo
Merely Rhetorical
Weird, I went to get my Speed - d burr (or whatever it's called) to speed whip some sheets to send to a plating shop today. I SOLD MY FUCKING TOOL BOX! Sorry, it's strange to not be able to go to my rollaway and get the tools that I have used for over 35 years.
Life will move on, and the plating shop will get raw material that I did not deburr
Sorry Ken. We're greedy fucks and salivating over that 10EE...
BTW, that toolbox sits in the way occupying the limited space I have, but has been my goto box for much of my recent boat project. It's like the 2001 space odyssey monolith, every time I look inside, oh my God, it's full of stars...
Brokenlink
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That is absolutely insane. I had no idea. I thought those things were like old Hammond organs. That's incredible Andy. Is it installed? Can we go hear this thing?
tzrider
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The pipes are being installed now and it should be functioning in about a month. More pipes and chimes will be installed as the pipes are ready, as some are still being made.
On the chimes, 8 notes had gone missing from a 32 note chime set. We looked high and low in the shop and concluded they may have somehow been stolen. The chimes were made by Deagan, who are no longer in business, so I extrapolated the tubing length and diameter we would need to reproduce them. We ordered the brass tubing and bars (to plug the ends) and I cut tubes to rough length, pressed plugs into the end with a 12 ton press and turned them on the lathe to finish the end.
Tuning is accomplished by cutting them until you reach the pitch you want. You don't want to go sharp, because you can't uncut it. I'd finished five of eight chimes when someone found the original eight. Sort of a bummer cost-wise, but it was interesting to figure out how to make the things.
As for listening, the church itself is under renovation but will still hold services. I think there will be recitals here and there when the organ is finished and it will be a featured instrument at the American Guild of Organists convention in 2024. I'll post back here when the organ is done and if there is any info about when you might be able to hear it, I'll include that too.
On the chimes, 8 notes had gone missing from a 32 note chime set. We looked high and low in the shop and concluded they may have somehow been stolen. The chimes were made by Deagan, who are no longer in business, so I extrapolated the tubing length and diameter we would need to reproduce them. We ordered the brass tubing and bars (to plug the ends) and I cut tubes to rough length, pressed plugs into the end with a 12 ton press and turned them on the lathe to finish the end.
Tuning is accomplished by cutting them until you reach the pitch you want. You don't want to go sharp, because you can't uncut it. I'd finished five of eight chimes when someone found the original eight. Sort of a bummer cost-wise, but it was interesting to figure out how to make the things.
As for listening, the church itself is under renovation but will still hold services. I think there will be recitals here and there when the organ is finished and it will be a featured instrument at the American Guild of Organists convention in 2024. I'll post back here when the organ is done and if there is any info about when you might be able to hear it, I'll include that too.
2legs2wheels
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Either a very interesting science experiment or a startup. Trying to figure out which one did I make!
tzrider
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The pipe organ my company has been building for the past two years is nearly done and a dedication recital will be held on Sunday, Oct. 8th, at 2:30 PM. It's open to the public and if you're interested, the venue is:
St. Ignatius Church
650 Parker Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
St. Ignatius Church
650 Parker Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
Mike95060
Work In Progress
^ Super cool!!!
tzrider
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So far, I've made a lot of sawdust and logs:
[YOUTUBE]4osZ9NEd9Fo[/YOUTUBE]
To be milled into lumber next year.
[YOUTUBE]4osZ9NEd9Fo[/YOUTUBE]
To be milled into lumber next year.
Busy Little Shop
exponential thinker
HappyHighwayman
It's all in the reflexes
Wwooooaaaaa
that's awesome
that's awesome
Much respect to you sir. That was quite a job. Very well planned, engineered, and executed. Great job on the video also. Had me on the edge of my seat for some of it. You've done this before I take it?
tzrider
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Thanks!
I have done this before, but not all that many times. This is the seventh tree I’ve removed in sections. The project began two years ago.
Prior to that, I’ve felled around 100 trees, with a couple of dozen being around the size of these. They could be felled in one piece, so the process was much simpler. Still, you learn how to make cuts to get the tree to go where you want it to.
Learning to climb and rig wasn’t too big a learning curve, having decades of experience climbing rock and ice. While not identical, there is a lot in common, so it wasn’t like starting from zero to safely climb a tree.
The process has become more enjoyable with each tree, as unknowns become known. I find that I can be relaxed up in the tree more easily than with the first couple. As you get to the slender part of the stem, it’s natural to wonder how strong it is. When you cut the top off, the rest of the spar moves a lot. The first time, it was a little disconcerting, even though I was expecting it.
It’s a lot of work to do this, but I genuinely enjoy it now.
tzrider
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Resurrecting the topic of the St. Ignatius pipe organ restoration, the inaugural recital I'd mentioned earlier in the thread was rescheduled, due to construction delays. The recital is now set and coming up soon:
Sunday, April 7, 2024, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
St. Ignatius Church
650 Parker Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
https://stignatiussf.org/events/organ-reconstruction-celebration-1
If you're interested, I hope to see you there. If you want to PM me that you're planning to be there, I'll make a point of saying hello at the event.
Sunday, April 7, 2024, 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
St. Ignatius Church
650 Parker Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
https://stignatiussf.org/events/organ-reconstruction-celebration-1
If you're interested, I hope to see you there. If you want to PM me that you're planning to be there, I'll make a point of saying hello at the event.
tzrider
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It’s been a while since this thread was active, so I thought I’d try to revive it.
This is a repair more than a “make,” but a church in Watsonville had some fire damage and needed the organ cleaned up and repaired.
The pedalboard has optical sensors to detect a key press and many of them were smoke damaged or broken. The manufacturer doesn’t make those optical pedal assemblies any longer, so I got the sensor components and replaced all the optical sensors on the little circuit boards they are mounted on.
Here are two of the assemblies, the one on the left is prior to cleanup and sensor replacement, while the one on the right is completed:
Here, they are mounted on the rail under the pedal keys, with a few keys in place:
In the shot above, you may be able to see a small metal tab sticking down from the underside of a key. When the key is played the tab breaks the infrared beam in the sensor with the slot in it.
These are velocity sensitive. The detector side of the sensor has resistance that varies as the light is blocked. The rate of resistance change tells the controller how fast the key was played. For the most part, this has no application in an organ, but could is a midi sound module is attached.
The assembled pedalboard:
This is a repair more than a “make,” but a church in Watsonville had some fire damage and needed the organ cleaned up and repaired.
The pedalboard has optical sensors to detect a key press and many of them were smoke damaged or broken. The manufacturer doesn’t make those optical pedal assemblies any longer, so I got the sensor components and replaced all the optical sensors on the little circuit boards they are mounted on.
Here are two of the assemblies, the one on the left is prior to cleanup and sensor replacement, while the one on the right is completed:
Here, they are mounted on the rail under the pedal keys, with a few keys in place:
In the shot above, you may be able to see a small metal tab sticking down from the underside of a key. When the key is played the tab breaks the infrared beam in the sensor with the slot in it.
These are velocity sensitive. The detector side of the sensor has resistance that varies as the light is blocked. The rate of resistance change tells the controller how fast the key was played. For the most part, this has no application in an organ, but could is a midi sound module is attached.
The assembled pedalboard:
FLH03RIDER
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
Here's a few...
Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake served with a Raspberry Chambord w/cream sauce (not shown garnished with fresh raspberries).
Also made the garlic croutons and an olive tapenade to go with fresh ciabatta bread.
It was for a dinner party at a friends winery in Livermore.
Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake served with a Raspberry Chambord w/cream sauce (not shown garnished with fresh raspberries).
Also made the garlic croutons and an olive tapenade to go with fresh ciabatta bread.
It was for a dinner party at a friends winery in Livermore.