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I've done some stuff close to .5mm on my Proxxon, so I would be surprised if the Byrnes wouldn't do close to that. Of course the blade would be the important factor. That slice is about 1mm before I did any sanding. This is a wood sandwich I made to do some inlay work. Mahogany, ebony and boxwood. A nice even coat of yellow PVA and plenty of clamping. Never had any separation when sawing.
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Do you have small table saw? You could glue square stock together then slice of strips as thin as your saw will allow..
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Any tips for getting those bevels so nice and even? They are part of a project I am working on. One false pass, and it's into the scrap pile. Slight variations in the bevel are very obvious at this scale. Yours look machined, but that is typical for your work. I remember when you used to shape blocks by hand ( or so you said 😁 ) and they looked just as good as your CNC blocks.
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Do you want to 'draw' or will scribing work. How long is the strip? Which dimension do you want to draw on? There are several things to consider if I were trying to do this. What are the shortcomings of the tools you have been shown so far? I can understand that the larger tools would not work well for small thin strips. Obviously, the rotary type markers will not determine the center automatically. If it were me, I would use my proportional dividers to mark the center.
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Not sure if the smallest in this set would work for you, but it should be easy to make something that uses the same principle. EZ Center Finder Edit: I see Kauz' tool works on the same principle.
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We know that, but lot's of beginners want to build Victory or Constitution because the look of the sails and all of those guns is what they want over their fireplace. Most of them never come to MSW for our sage advice. They don't want to spend 10 years learning how to build ship models and finally realizing " why did I ever think that kit was a good idea ? " .
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I misunderstood the OP which said "prime "..
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Watch it with a free 30 day trial..
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Blades for Artesania Latina Cutter
Gregory replied to brunnels's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
They have these at Cornwall Model boats You might be surprised how low the shipping can be. Very competitive with cost from someplace like Micromark or ModelExpo. Ages of Sail has what looks like the same thing for a different tool. You would have to check the dimensions. -
Because developing a totally new kit is very costly? Put a bunch of old parts in a new box and see who bites.. You might make enough money to develop a new kit.
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That does look like a very nice kit, with a lot of detail due to the new techology available such as laser cutting and PE. However , I would really like to see some more realistic columns instead of those generic balusters that have been around for 40 years and part of innumerable kits from any number of kit manufacturers.
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Woodwork/Model making workshop. Scale 1:1
Gregory replied to Charter33's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Dead. Deadeyes.. I guess we're still on topic..😁
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It's really hard to see the vise in your image and how it might integrate with the drill press we are discussing.
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Here is a video of a very small drilling operation. Drilling.mp4 This is a little block of boxwood. It is very dense and hard. Note that the slight motion you see is the the camera moving. Looking at the spindle in relation to the background shows how stable it is.
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I don't think it should be. It's a good place to share experience and ideas about machines of comparable size. It might be a good idea to limit it to these " mini " machines, and not try to compare performance to machines that are much bigger.
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I'm reading through the book " Legacy of a Ship Model " by Rob Napier . Something I noticed, and have seen on other contemporary models, is that the deadeyes are almost spherical . Does anyone know if this was just a modeling convention, or if actual practice ever consisted of deadeyes shaped like this?
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