They didn’t. It’s all linden wood. (So sayeth the guy who had to
restore the burned ones.)
I’m not entirely taken with the style of the Gibbons carving, but
dear god, you must respect the technique that made it possible.
Once or twice in a generation, you’ll get somebody like Gibbons who
takes a quantum jump sideways into areas that nobody else had
thought to look into.
Regards,
Brian
PS"> I am gratified to know that I’m not the only one here who knows
who Gibbons was. He’s a tad obscure from a modern American point of
view.
PPS"> Andy, I don’t think there is a micromotor handpiece with a
chuck like a #30. So far as I know, they’re all collet units. Has to
do with mass and balance, as I understand it. (Chucks are both heavy
and prone to getting out of balance. At 40K RPM, that matters.)
Regarding the micromotors that will accept a hammer handpiece; does
the micromotor’s control and precision make it’s pulsing more
delicate and preferable to the pulsing of a hammer handpiece on the
flexshaft?
-The absence of a heavy cable/shaft actually takes some getting
used to! -Placement of the control unit took a little figuring out,
since I'm used tothe motor hanging above my bench.
Andy’s post reminded me of an issue we all experienced in my shop
when transitioning to a micromotor. If you have used a flexshaft for
any length of time, you have probably developed the habit of just
letting go of the handpiece off the side of your bench pan when you
are finished with it. Beware that you don’t do that with your new
micromotor handpiece! You will very likely damage it as it will
invariably hit the floor bur first. We messed up several handpieces
before we reprogrammed our muscle memories to not just let go of it.
Two of them were not too badly damaged, they just make a buzzing
sound they didn’t do before, but one needed a whole new front end the
bearings were so badly damaged.