Hi Everyone, I am quite busy at the moment and being busy will take me to the Build of the Bounty. On top of the build, I have a few projects that need to be addressed first up.
One of my hobbies involves Wood carving and at the moment I am carving 2 horses for a Concord Stage Coach I built. Once the hands start to become sore I have a break and head over to an old - old lathe that I purchased for a very special price that now spending a fortune and time to have going.
You can believe me, I came undone, as it was a train wreck when I first had possession. I finally have got it operably again but it lacks tools and I am steadily making them. How I am doing this I have a Project in mind and it is to build the cannons for the Bounty and you need more than a lathe to achieve them. So I bought vertical Slides for the cross-slide but then the Lathe did not have a compound slide, I thought to save time why not buy one on the net but alas all the compound slides were about 5mm above the center line of the lathe were the closest that would fit. Maybe I could buy one and then machine down the base to fit but warnings started flashing in my head and gave up the idea. So what I have done is built my own and of course, the machining of the slides came at a cost, a good job was done but it all takes time
Carrying along with the Compound slide, what I have been doing is if I need to make something requiring additional work done and I can make it then, I stop the compound slide and make the tooling to make the next move happen.
At the moment I am going to finish building a Dividing system that will help me mark out the dial for the Compound slide.
I need to have a compound slide to make cannons and I need a lot of things done to achieve what I want to achieve.
Another project that came to mind is cutting and machining the planks up for the build. I live In Australia, Western Australia and as many modelers know, W.A. misses out on all things nitty gritty to do with Model boat building and everything has to come from out of the state and or out of the Country as well, ( not like my fellow Model builders in Europe and America as you have a well-stocked hobby shop you can purchase your wood for model boat building very locally, even in your small villages I here LOL.)
Anyway to cut the story short, I saw that a Woodworking shop had bought in the Proxxon KS230 and I went and had a look at it and then bought it. Brought it home and saw the blade it comes with is some type of carbon steel crap, which really disappointed me and apparently, I can get a saw blade with carbide tips which seems to make more sense. Until that happens, I would not bother to use the blade it came with to cut any wood other than balsa to tell you the truth.
So that's what is happening with me and when I start I will show and also ask for ideas as well. That time may be happening in the next few months depending if something else comes up to send me in another direction but I will get there but it's when.
Cheers
One of my hobbies involves Wood carving and at the moment I am carving 2 horses for a Concord Stage Coach I built. Once the hands start to become sore I have a break and head over to an old - old lathe that I purchased for a very special price that now spending a fortune and time to have going.
You can believe me, I came undone, as it was a train wreck when I first had possession. I finally have got it operably again but it lacks tools and I am steadily making them. How I am doing this I have a Project in mind and it is to build the cannons for the Bounty and you need more than a lathe to achieve them. So I bought vertical Slides for the cross-slide but then the Lathe did not have a compound slide, I thought to save time why not buy one on the net but alas all the compound slides were about 5mm above the center line of the lathe were the closest that would fit. Maybe I could buy one and then machine down the base to fit but warnings started flashing in my head and gave up the idea. So what I have done is built my own and of course, the machining of the slides came at a cost, a good job was done but it all takes time
Carrying along with the Compound slide, what I have been doing is if I need to make something requiring additional work done and I can make it then, I stop the compound slide and make the tooling to make the next move happen.
At the moment I am going to finish building a Dividing system that will help me mark out the dial for the Compound slide.
I need to have a compound slide to make cannons and I need a lot of things done to achieve what I want to achieve.
Another project that came to mind is cutting and machining the planks up for the build. I live In Australia, Western Australia and as many modelers know, W.A. misses out on all things nitty gritty to do with Model boat building and everything has to come from out of the state and or out of the Country as well, ( not like my fellow Model builders in Europe and America as you have a well-stocked hobby shop you can purchase your wood for model boat building very locally, even in your small villages I here LOL.)
Anyway to cut the story short, I saw that a Woodworking shop had bought in the Proxxon KS230 and I went and had a look at it and then bought it. Brought it home and saw the blade it comes with is some type of carbon steel crap, which really disappointed me and apparently, I can get a saw blade with carbide tips which seems to make more sense. Until that happens, I would not bother to use the blade it came with to cut any wood other than balsa to tell you the truth.
So that's what is happening with me and when I start I will show and also ask for ideas as well. That time may be happening in the next few months depending if something else comes up to send me in another direction but I will get there but it's when.
Cheers
