Mark Pearse Posted Tuesday at 10:43 AM #1 Posted Tuesday at 10:43 AM Brass flat bar in sizes below 1/4" width seems to have vanished.... Does anyone have any recent experience of buying smaller sizes? 2-5mm widths, in thicknesses like 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2mm. any suggestions extremely welcome thibaultron 1 completed 1:12 28' Ranger type yacht, scratch build - COMPLETED 1:12 20' 1930 open sailing boat, half model, scratch built - COMPLETED 1:12 24' Ranger type yacht, scratch build
GGibson Posted Tuesday at 12:35 PM #2 Posted Tuesday at 12:35 PM K & S Metals has been my go-to for brass strips and bars here in the States. Not sure what their current inventory stock is. thibaultron 1 Gregg Current Projects: Completed Projects: Waiting for Shipyard Clearance: USS Constitution 1:76.8 - Model Shipways Norwegian Sailing Pram 1:12 - Model Shipways Yacht America Schooner 1851 1:64 - Model Shipways Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack 1:24 - Model Shipways RMS Titanic 1:300 - OcCre (May now never get to it) H.M. Schooner Ballahoo 1:64 - Caldercraft Bluenose 1921 1:64 - Model Shipways Santa Maria Caravelle 1:48 - Ships of Pavel Nikitin
wefalck Posted Tuesday at 01:53 PM #3 Posted Tuesday at 01:53 PM See my response in your RANGER building log ... thibaultron 1 wefalck panta rhei - Everything is in flux
Snug Harbor Johnny Posted Tuesday at 05:10 PM #4 Posted Tuesday at 05:10 PM If you need narrow widths of relatively thin brass stock (still available in sheets), you can use a heavy-duty paper cutter (one-arm shear blade) to slice off thin strips. Jared, East Ender and thibaultron 3 Completed builds: Khufu Solar Barge - 1:72 Woody Joe Current project(s): Gorch Fock restoration 1:100; Billing Wasa (bust) - 1:100; Great Harry (bust) 1:88 ex. Sergal 1:65
Mark Pearse Posted Wednesday at 02:23 AM Author #5 Posted Wednesday at 02:23 AM Thank you all for the responses. K & S don't seem to have any rectangular strips (aka flat bar) narrower than 1/4". I believe I was looking at their store website. And thanks also for the guillotine suggestion, I hadn't realised that can work. I went right to the bottom of the scraps box & I can largely work with what I have in bits & pieces, except for the square C channel 3 x 1mm nom. I'll think about some alternatives, including eBay. thibaultron 1 completed 1:12 28' Ranger type yacht, scratch build - COMPLETED 1:12 20' 1930 open sailing boat, half model, scratch built - COMPLETED 1:12 24' Ranger type yacht, scratch build
Dr PR Posted Wednesday at 06:51 AM #6 Posted Wednesday at 06:51 AM Years ago I bought out the small brass stock from a hardware store that went out of business. Some of it was K & S, but the really tiny stuff was from Special Shapes company. I guess they went out of business or were bought by another company because the web site no longer exists. They made brass shapes like "L", "H", "T" in dimensions down to 1/32 inch (0.8 mm) plus rods down to 0.010 inch (0.25 mm) diameter. I don't know of anyone making this small brass stock now. Mark Pearse and thibaultron 2 Phil Current build: USS Cape MSI-2 Previous build: Vanguard Models 18 foot cutter Previous build: Albatros topsail schooner Previous build: USS Oklahoma City CLG-5 CAD model
paul ron Posted Wednesday at 06:24 PM #7 Posted Wednesday at 06:24 PM hobby shops have stock brass n other metals. Mark Pearse 1
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