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how do I sharpen my craft knives?
Benjamin S posted a topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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 =$14.4 which is twice the price of the walnut ones but they appear to be a softer wood, so I was wondering why that would be .are the syren ones higher quailty? thank you again you have all been very helpfull ,and I feel like I an learning quite a lot.
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I see what you mean the stain does look quite nice .
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thank you everyone I will test try a few of these solution.
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so I think I will buy them for this model but I know some places have better quailty ones and some don't . I know a few people have suggested that syren has some good ones but while looking them up I noted that model expo has walnut ones andI think that syren's are boxwood or something and for the amount I need it seems to work out to less for the walnut ones but I don't know .
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scale is 1: 64 I think I could not actually find pre printed lans so I had to buy some and print them as to scale as i can which was wrong the first time so i had to do it a second time so at the size now everything that says it is 5 mm on the sheets measers to 4.5mm.
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sorry ment to right 2.5 mm🙂
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the sizes i need are 5mm and 2mm . (40) 5mm and (20) 2mm ,the ship i'm building is the 1977 USS Essex frigate ,I have made it three Essex's so far and I am quite happy with the improvements just adding a few things each time as I get better to make it better and this time i'm hoping to add deadeyes and blocks.
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well this ship is scratch built, but another existing problem is i'm only 14 so i have literally next to no income so even if I sell it for 100$ I can start save up to get better tools. even if it dosen't sell for much there are like 6 in our house so i'm running out of room to keep them.
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it is a plank on bulkhead.
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hmm, but what is the best way to make them all square?
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thank you i think i will buy them this time, but i'm hoping to sell the ship i am working on and i plan to get a mini wood lathe with the money . thanks.
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