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  • Birthday 10/30/1956

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    Round Lake Beach, Illinois, USA

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  8. RichardG
    Tagua nuts can fairly big (50mm) however they apparently always have a void somewhere inside, so I don't think they'd work for large figure heads. For smaller decorative carvings they could be really good - no grain and they can be dyed. You can even buy slices. My carving abilities are zero at the moment but a couple of my planned builds have some carving needed. Has anyone here used them?
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    If making ship models required this level of carving I'd have to give it up. Amazing.
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  23. RichardG
    I had my flu and pneumonia shots last year, and my first covid shot a couple of weeks ago. All of them left my arm sore for a day or so. Having 2 shots at the same time was worse because it was one in each arm. Being a side-sleeper, I wasn't able to get comfortable. They were all better than getting the disease 👍.
  24. RichardG
    Wonderful. This is on my retirement build list (a very short list). I have the books, I have the cannons, now all I need is the skill. Fortunately, I also have the peace of mind that not reaching this level is ok.
  25. RichardG
    Not sure if this helps. When I don't have the equipment to take off material, I find adding material sometimes works. For the rail above I see a rod and 3 washers. The problem here is the common one in our hobby - everything is so small. I'm surprised the file didn't work though. Copper is fairly soft. A new high-quality file might help. That and a template to hold it steady.
  26. RichardG
    Thanks Michael. Actually there's about a 1/2 mm gap. I had debated with myself about having it slide on the base. However I wasn't sure if it might become a problem later if I had any expansion of the wood.
  27. RichardG
    Thanks Don. I'll definitely curse! Still it's nice to see a well used and worn tool.
  28. RichardG
    I think I'm going buy/make some small clamps which can then be clamped back in the vice to hold smaller items. As Wefalck mention some different jaws may help. I looked at parallels in the past but was put-off by the price. I'll probably make stuff as needed. Plenty of opportunity to make more jigs!
  29. RichardG
    I wanted a reasonable quality vise for my drill press. I had a cheap Amazon one that I threw away it was so bad. I have one of these: Which is ok but not great. As well as having a small opening size, those enormous mounting slots are useless. You can get really good machinists vises but they're expensive and I'm not milling big chunks of steel. So I decided to make one. I used rods, bearings, and brackets designed for CNC machines on a 1/4" aluminium plate. The body is 9 and 12mm birch ply. I wanted it to lo
  30. RichardG
    c-squared.
  31. RichardG
    I thinks it's a Tailorbird https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-bird-that-stitches-its-home.html.
  32. RichardG
    Those pictures were horrifying.
  33. RichardG
    My order from Ocooch arrived on Saturday - I'm very pleased with the quality. I sounds like you only need a small quantity of 1/32" strip. I've thinned strip down by just using a simple jig of a couple of parallel 1/32" basswood strips on a larger piece of wood and then pulling 1/16th strips though the space with a sanding stick held across the strips. Pull the strips through a few times and when sandpaper stops producing any dust, you have your 1/32" strip.
  34. RichardG
    And noises from the livestock.
  35. RichardG
    I ordered some wood from Ocooch for the first time this week. Ordered March 9th, shipped March 10th, UPS are delivering tomorrow 😀.

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