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Hi I am looking for a DeWalt DW1150 Planer Thicknesser. If anybody might have one for sale please let me know. Many thanks, Simon in Brighton.

Cheers, just edited the thread, these horns were first made in the 1920's by Western Electric, heres a You tube clip of some playing.

Update from Jan.2019. Long time has passed but just wanted to update with a couple of pictures. The first is one of the back sections of the horn, twisted sides and the other is the larger front section, the 2 join together to make the wooden horn. Thanks for all the help here, very grateful.

After lots of experimenting on off cuts with various combinations I tired a water based Bedec matt black and put some linseed oil over the top and it came out nicely. I am worried that this is not a sensible combination though, can oils be used over water based paints?...I suspect not but worth...

Thanks for the advice, I may well just bite the bullet and re-sand. Heres a picture if that helps, you can see the issue with the end grain inconsistency.

Thanks Droogs, Yes, the dye is ebony so not such a big distinction in terms of depth of color, it more the inconsistency-nice across the grain but the end grain not so much. I know the paint will leave a very different finish but would offer the consistency back to the piece. My concern is the...

Hi All, I have recently used an ebony Liberon Palette wood dye (water based) over poplar after doing several small trial runs. Whilst the finish is consistent along the grain the end grain has finished less consistently. I tried sanding the end grain to a higher grit as I read this may help...

Thanks for the detailed reply, I have tried using a ROS with an interface pad but it leaves un even results but with a bit of further sanding with the profiled blocks it could be iron out. I was hoping a scraper might be a good method of evening out.

"Your barely curved surface needs a barely curved scraper of tighter radius." I think this is exactly right, I was finding that the radius on curved scrapers was too much and with square scrapers with a bit of bend in use was hard on the hands and easy to drag the 90 degree edge into the work...

I am not suggesting one single scraper for the entire curve but maybe 5 or 6 smaller ones to accommodate the radius, sorry for any confusion.

Yes, obviously the scraper won't pass over the curve at 90 to it, I made some sanding blocks to fit the curve but slight under shot the radius and that worked ok on the last ones I did but just thinking about how to improve the process as the scraper left very a nice surface finish.

Well on first making these curves I posted cad drawings of the staves and was told that the engineering type approach was not the way to go, so I took the advice and hand planned and fettled the staves in as suggested which worked nicely. More recently I passed each stave through a spindle...

It's just an observation Mike, "I thought this project was done and dusted years ago", Honestly...", "for goodness sake...." etc etc appear to me, slightly offish. Off course I really appreciate the responses and your points haven't been ignored, it's just that I haven't got any old tools that...

That makes sense, cheers Woody.

No you haven't, Woody has suggested making my own from old hardpoint handsaw or and old bandsaw blade (cheers Woody) but I have nothing like this to use. I was interested in what type of steel was used to make these things so I posted this link. https://www.steelexpress.co.uk/toolsteel/...