Benjamin S
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that is not something I would have thought ,of it will be interesting to see what that looks like. -
Hello, I am working on scratch building a ship, and I need to make like 42 cannons or something. So I have made them before on a drill press ,but they are a pain to get all the same size and detail is extraordinarily difficult. so is there a good way to make them, I know buying them is an option but 42 cannons can be quite expensive, also the cannons are pretty small they are 25 mm long. so yea any suggestions welcome.thanks
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which mini wood lathe is best?
Benjamin S replied to Benjamin S's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
kind of funny actually my grand father is a carpender and my family live on a farm so I have quite an expirence with building thing from sheds to 1.2 kilometer long fences to pig pens . we are home schooled so while we do have quite a few tools which is nice one of my uncle's works in a high school and he says they have some realy cool tools there. -
which mini wood lathe is best?
Benjamin S replied to Benjamin S's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
thank you, I feel like I will probiably continue making model ship's in the future as I have been into this for a while and am still quite interested. The ship I am making is from scratch and there is not that much I need to buy supply wise mabe 60$ at most, but I deffinetly look for second hand metal mini wood lathe as Cleek sudgested. cheers. -
Hello, I was wondering if any of you could help me with suggesting a mini wood lathe for my self. I have looked at a bunch of them but which ones do you think are the best from experiance. I intend to use it for cannons, spars ect the downside is that I am 15 so my budget is under 250$ which I will have once I sell my boat I am currently working on. thanks.
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how do I sharpen my craft knives?
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thanks, I think I will just buy more. but thanks for the tip of taping the blades. -
how do I sharpen my craft knives?
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Hello, I have like 20 dull craft knives laying around and I was wondering what the best way to sharpen them would be. I do have a lot of sand paper and three 600# grit sharpening stones, but sadly I don't know how to use them. thanks -
wow, amazing hull
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I did something like that to in mine I put a little note in the hull before planking that read "if you are reading this someone broke my ship, what du heck people"
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I don't know, would clay be easyer to work with as a first time?
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that is what I am thinking of using
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yea that is what I was thinking to Jim
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Hello, I am looking to make the figurehead for my USS Essex frigate and I was wondering if it makes more sense to carve one out of wood or to carve one out of clay and then paint it, but I have never done this before so any advice is welcome. the figurehead ... so mine will probably be a little more basic I am going this but his left arm is at his side and his tomohok thing is resting on his shoulder
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there are only a few small gaps so I think I will fill them with sawdust. thank you for the replies.
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I will ,and this is my first time getting deadeyes so any suggestions on where to get them is much appreciated.
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no it is a scratch build , i just really like the look of the ship, this is my first time adding deadeyes to any ship .
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so I tried a few, making a frame and fitting it in seemed to work the best for me . thank you everyone you have all been very helpful and it was good to get ideas from people with more experience. Benjamin.
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I am in Canada but I'm sure they would ship here .
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great job, it will be interesting to see this ship done at such a tiny scale
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will do , do you have a prefered place to get them?
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I noted that on syren they has each one for 36 cents or something but model expo has 40 pacts for 7$ which is the amount that I need (at least of the 5mm ones) .But .36 times 40 =$14.4 which is twice the price of the walnut ones but they appear to be a softer wood, so I was wondering why that would be .are the syren ones higher quailty? thank you again you have all been very helpfull ,and I feel like I an learning quite a lot.
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I see what you mean the stain does look quite nice .
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thank you everyone I will test try a few of these solution.
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