[TheForge] English wheel

[Andrew Vida]

If you have any problems, Wray Schelin is the man to go to.  Nobody on 
the planet knows as much about English wheels as he.  He builds them, 
uses them, and pretty much revived the use of them, I'd say more or less 
single-handedly.  There is nothing he cannot tell you about how they 
work and how to correct them if you are having problems.  He is big on 
rigidity, so your lateral flex may be a problem, though I really don't know.

Write if you would like his address/phone.

On 2/17/2012 1:49 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> I finished my English Wheel this week. I haven't tried it out yet because I
> had to lay it down
> to finish the welding and figured I'd paint the bottom side before standing
> it back up.  I'll paint the top side side tomorrow and be able to use it
> when the paint dries in this cool weather.
>
> I came up with a design that was kind of a
> hybred between the HF, Grizzly, and Covell machines. I used 'I' beams
> instead of square tubing because that's what I had. It has a little flex
> side to side, but is rigid up and down.  If the flex is a problem I'll have
> to add support. Time will tell.
>
> Other than about $2.00 worth of hardware I was able to make the frame all
> from material (scrap) that I had on hand. I got a set of HF lower anvil
> wheeles on clearance for $50 and a friend gave me several 1" wids 5"
> diamiter steel wheels that were some kind of industrial caster to use for
> the top wheel.
>
> For now I'm just using a single 1" wheel on top. I don't know if I can weld
> two
> wheels together without leaving blemishes on the surface.  If the 1" wheel
> doesn't work,
> I'll try welding the other two together.  Or try to get a real welder to do
> it for me.
>
> I make and sell a lot of bowls.  I used to make them mainly with a swage
> block, or sink them into a wheel rim.  Last summer I made tooling for my
> press that I can use to make bowls by pushing the metal into the void of a
> ring.  This is faster than hand hammering but leaves a lot of marks that
> then need to be hammered out.  I'm hoping that the English wheel will roll
> out these marks quickly and reduce the hand hammering that I have to do.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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