This is our Thin Air Press blog. We will be highlighting woodworking projects, tutorials, news about vacuum veneering and the many things that can be done using our THIN AIR PRESS!

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Ted Hunter

Roarockit

Nari Jo is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design. She built this chair last year in the Furniture 1 class that Paul Epp and I taught.

The chair is amazing. All the pieces are laminated. You did a great job Nari. 

For more views click here.  

Past projects featured on the Thin Air Press Blog.

A Deck for Danny 

Erica

D Robinson

Here is Andrew Bauer’s Guitar Building Blog.

Bow werby too 

Andrew used our kit to help with the guitar build and he sent this letter about his experience;

I purchased the maple veneer and vacuum press from Roarockit a few months ago and began building a guitar. I would like to thank you for supplying these materials, since the guitar couldn’t have gotten off of the ground without them. I figured you might be interested in seeing the results (still a work in progress).

In one situation, I left the TAP bag at vacuum for a week straight and didn’t lose any pressure. The only problem I ran into was, during a pressing, upon opening the bag, the seal snapped open quickly and tore the heat-sealed edge of the bag. The 4 inch rip was fixed easily with some spare sealing goo that came with the kit.  A minor setback, but overall a great product.

Many thanks!

Andrew Bauer

This is a set of steps I made for our skateboard school. The aluminium beam is a solid billet of aluminium and the decks were custom made with concave only on one edge. You should see the look on our students faces when they make the treck to the basement. More pictures with the railing added.

Here is an email and pictures that we recieved about a router table build that looks amazing.

Vacuum Bag Success Link

Doug Stowe is using the Thin Air Press in a class at the wood shop of Clear Spring School. The Grade 7 and 8 students are building canes to give to their local free medical clinic. What a great project.

Here is the intro to Doug’s blog. I think it says it all.

Wisdom of the Hands

This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarly through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.

Thanks Doug for all your support.

http://wisdomofhands.blogspot.com:80/2007/04/in-wood-shop-today-at-clear-spring.html

Norm Abrams from New Yankee uses our Thin Air Press to build the curves of a classic bow front chest.

Here is the link:

http://www.newyankee.com/video.cgi?0711

This tutorial shows how easy it is to build custom drawer faces using vacuum veneering. Learn how to make a custom foam mold that can be used to make multiple drawer faces for furniture or kitchen cabinets.

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Here are a couple of emails I received from Miikka A. Eerola about veneering a drum shell. Many thanks to Miikka for setting this up and sending pictures of his build.

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This is a tutorial on using an external mold with the Thin Air Press. Sometimes building a simple wooden mold that veneers and the TAP bag can be externally wrapped around is a better solution than an internal mold.

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An easy to do veneering project with dramatic results!

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This is a simple tutorial on laminating fancy veneers to a substrate material.

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This shows how to build a foam mold to laminate a chair back using the Thin Air Press. Building a mold using foam is an inexpensive alternative to making a mold from multi-layers of plywood. One of the good parts is that the material is inexpensive and the mold is completely re-usable many times over.

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Here is a link to a series of streaming videos I have produced. Included is a good tutorial on using the Thin Air Press for clamping a marquetry project to a substrate.

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People frequently ask me "How much pressure is exerted on a project that has been placed inside a vacuum bag" and the answer is simple!

Other common vacuum questions are also answered in this tutorial.

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