semi-ot: nice little lathe project?

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Every once in a while, I check in over at  mostlyfor a good laugh -- today was rewarded with this: content -- bronze insert....:-)Regards,Bob

Mark · Accepted Answer

Make sure you coat them in that 115.00 an ounce lacquer....I thought I had seen everything.  Right up there with the brown fleckson my left iris.... / markBob Edwards wrote:>

Grant Erwin · Answer

Oh - my - GOD!!Bob Edwards wrote:>

Mars · Answer

I guess there is people out there crazier than me :-)>

lane · Answer

>I'll buy a dozen and give them away as Christmas presents!  jeeesh!Lane

Tim Williams · Answer

I wonder what kind of flame wars could be erupted by stripping them andrevarnishing with polyurethane instead.Tim--"That's for the courts to decide." - Homer SimpsonWebsite @ >

larry g · Answer

And to think that they thought 'Pet Rocks' were a rip.  Now all you naysayers here fess up, did you buy a pet rock?Now if you read the add for these knobs they tell you the alternate fix.Just pull off the phenolic knob that does such bad things.  I think that Iwill go out to the shop and make some lead knobs.lgno pet rock.>

Jeff Law · Answer

$485.00 for a knob!!!!!!!!!!!!>

Mark Rand · Answer

Do they do them in brushed aluminium?Mark RandRTFM

Jim Stewart · Answer

Or cast titanium

Paul Amaranth · Answer

Geez, didn't you read the explanation? It's the _wood_ that damps out the "microvibrations". Metal would be worse than plastic :-)

What a crock. I have 2 questions: 1) do they actually sell any of them? and 2) how do I tap into that kind of market? OK, 3 questions - could I live with myself afterwards? (probably not, ah well ...)

Paul

Don Foreman · Answer

Ruination, Tim!    The lacquers must be applied in alternating layersof formulations with different coefficients of acoustic impedance topreserve a  7th order Schnnicklefritz response.

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