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Post by gerry on Aug 7, 2019 17:53:14 GMT -5
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Post by joeblow on Aug 8, 2019 16:21:49 GMT -5
That's really cool Gerry! Your son is gonna love it. I may have to look into this project as my son has quite the collection of older cameras.
So, what wood did you use? Usually I'm really good at identifying species but this one has me a little stumped. On the one hand I'm guessing clear Hickory but prob way off the mark. My 2nd guess is clear pine with a great stain job.
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Post by gerry on Aug 8, 2019 17:39:05 GMT -5
That's really cool Gerry! Your son is gonna love it. I may have to look into this project as my son has quite the collection of older cameras. So, what wood did you use? Usually I'm really good at identifying species but this one has me a little stumped. On the one hand I'm guessing clear Hickory but prob way off the mark. My 2nd guess is clear pine with a great stain job. Plain ol' Poplar. I milled the 'distance scale', painted it white, then lasered the text onto it and cut it out. Rubbing with DNA took the smoke off the surface and 'aged' it. Michael T. used a laser printer transfer. I also milled and cut out the handle, and most of the small parts. |
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johnb
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Post by johnb on Aug 12, 2019 15:39:58 GMT -5
"Rubbing with DNA took the smoke off the surface and 'aged' it. " Read more: axiomprecision.proboards.com/thread/1071/retro-camera-timepiece?page=1#ixzz5wQCPBWBfThanks for the tip on the alcohol rubbing. I hadn't seen that anywhere. I ran an "experimental" burn on 1/4" plywood...the "utility" stuff that has all the narrow strands in the top layer oriented in the same direction. I wasn't really happy with how it looked, partly because some of the wood strands had a LOT of pitch in them and I got some "flare spots" (unrelated to stop/start) to the point where "repeated letters" looked quite different in different places on the work piece...in fact, some of the flares actually put pinpoint burnholes clear through the plywood into the spoilboard. Bear in mind, I wasn't cutting anything out with the laser, just burning a logo and a "degraded stencil" font with crosshatched fill lettering. The crosshatching looked great, the letter borders...not so much. I'll hit it with some alcohol and see if I can resurrect things a little. |
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Post by joeblow on Aug 12, 2019 19:23:43 GMT -5
So, what wood did you use? Plain ol' Poplar. Nice! That was my 3rd guess  |
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