Introduction

[timbuck]

Introducing myself...Ken Timms..in the UK ...Hobby Uke builder and inventor.

[woodrat]

Welcome Ken to the ANZLF....love your site....very interesting and informative....I love seeing what others do.

I am sure that you will enjoy getting involved here....

Cheers

John

[ozwood]

Hi All,

Ken has saved my bacon recently , I had a catasrophic failure of my Jet 10-20 drum sander after only 18 months, Jet Australia were no help other than offering to sell me $300 worth of Parts with no guarentee it would not happen again ,a quick search led me to Ken who had solved the problem for himself and half the Lutherie community of the UK a few years back , I think Ken's Mod will outlast every other component on the machine and he Kindly did it reallly quickly for me as well , it should arrive any day now , will post some Pics when it does, unless Ken would like to post a link to his thread and pics of the issue and the mod he designed, some may think it worthwhile to take a Pro active stance and do the mod before your left stuck like I was

Thanks Again Ken.

Cheers,

[EricDownunder]

Welcome. that avatar is a ripper

[jeffhigh]

Welcome Ken
I really like your bandsaw jig for fitting necks to body, what a great aproach.

[Allen]

Good to have you on board here Ken. I divide my time between here and UU, as I think several others do.

[timbuck]

Thanks for great welcome Lads..just put a smile on your faces, Here is an invention I designed in 2009 but up to now I've not managed to get it up and running ..Still a few gremlins to sort out.

[timbuck]

Hi All,

Ken has saved my bacon recently , I had a catasrophic failure of my Jet 10-20 drum sander after only 18 months, Jet Australia were no help other than offering to sell me $300 worth of Parts with no guarentee it would not happen again ,a quick search led me to Ken who had solved the problem for himself and half the Lutherie community of the UK a few years back , I think Ken's Mod will outlast every other component on the machine and he Kindly did it reallly quickly for me as well , it should arrive any day now , will post some Pics when it does, unless Ken would like to post a link to his thread and pics of the issue and the mod he designed, some may think it worthwhile to take a Pro active stance and do the mod before your left stuck like I was

Thanks Again Ken.

Cheers,

Paul here is the link http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum ... gn-Problem If anybody else needs to do this fix ..I suggest they find a local metal machinist and show this to them.

[Nick]

Welcome to the Forum Ken. As an engineer, I can see the problem with you Uke-O-Matic right off the bat, your dongle whatsit is way too tight and it's causing the flange-ama-thingy to crimple the blogit. Oh and for health and safety regs you might want to think of putting a guard around that vee belt especially as it's right near your main isolator

[timbuck]

Welcome to the Forum Ken. As an engineer, I can see the problem with you Uke-O-Matic right off the bat, your dongle whatsit is way too tight and it's causing the flange-ama-thingy to crimple the blogit. Oh and for health and safety regs you might want to think of putting a guard around that vee belt especially as it's right near your main isolator

Thanks for that input Nick..I'll go over the drawings again tonight and see it I can make a bit of progress...By the way the guard was not included for photographic reasons.

[steve roberts]

Welcome Ken
Love your avatar reminds of my brother in law!! ha ha
Hope to see some of your builds soon.
Regards Steve

[timbuck]

just go on google images....type in "ken timms ukulele" and you'll see a load of e'm