Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48

[WojtasS]

Good work Paul, amazing details

 

[Daniel20]

Beautiful brackets!

 

[Herman]

Exenplary brackets, very fine detailed.

 

[dockattner]

Extraordinary! Did you use a cup burs to make the dots?

I wanted to use cup burs (I have a nice set of twin-cut cup burs from Busch) - but they just burned the wood or got clogged up. Perhaps they are really just useful for metals?

 

[dockattner]

Impressive!

I do know that it is very hard to get them all the same and going from small to big, or the other way around. freehand or Proxxon?

Freehand. I made a series of pearwood rods using a drawplate (1.5 mm down to 0.8 mm) and sanded a crown on the end and cut it off with a scalpel... Tedious, but it worked.

 

[dockattner]

Witaj
Pięknie Pawle. Pozdrawiam Mirek

Greetings, Mirek!

my dear friend Paul
you have done wonderful work on this tiny leaf decorations, it came out very accurate representation and beautiful

Thank you, Shota.

'It's all in the Details!' And you made them, Paul. With a capital 'D'!
Regards, Peter

Thanks, Peter. They are a bit fussy - but perhaps fitting on a fussy French ship.

Looks quite ok ..... lol ... no it's perfect

Much appreciated, Dirk!

Wonderful work Paul.

Thanks for the encouragement, Roger.

Beautiful brackets!

Thanks, Daniel. I'm pretty satisfied with them.

Exenplary brackets, very fine detailed.

Hello Herman! Nice to hear from you. I'm so glad Maia is doing better than anyone expected!

 

[dockattner]

Good work Paul, amazing details

Thank you, my friend. I used some creative license but all-in-all I'm happy.

 

[Steef66]

I wanted to use cup burs (I have a nice set of twin-cut cup burs from Busch) - but they just burned the wood or got clogged up. Perhaps they are really just useful for metals?

Did you use these?



I use them and have no problem with burning. I also sometimes use beewax on the burr. You have to be carefull and do it slow and step by step with boxwood. The difficulty by hand is to hit the same spot again.

 

[WojtasS]

Thank you, my friend. I used some creative license but all-in-all I'm happy.

Oh I didn't even notice. By the way, why are you selling your proxxon, did you get hands on something better?

 

[dockattner]

Did you use these?

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I use them and have no problem with burning. I also sometimes use beewax on the burr. You have to be carefull and do it slow and step by step with boxwood. The difficulty by hand is to hit the same spot again.

Yes. These look like the burs I was using. I did eventually turn down the speed and that mostly solved the burning problem. But the spillway for the cuttings was getting clogged after only a few seconds which made it frustrating. The dots are pearwood so maybe that was part of the problem as well - much softer than boxwood.

 

[dockattner]

Oh I didn't even notice. By the way, why are you selling your proxxon, did you get hands on something better?

I was offered a used TAIG mini-mill and jumped on it. I liked the Proxxon - but never fully resolved the 'slop' in the turning wheels which frustrated me when trying to mill accurately. The TAIG is a nice upgrade in this regard.

 

[Steef66]

Pearwood

Yup, same problem as cherrywood. Cherry burns also very quick. Maybe the sweetness in the wood is the cause. I got the same too with the apple that I use for my new project. When the wood gets to hot it colours very quickly. But you found a solution that works very good. The result is perfect.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

Wonderful work, Paul!

 

[ConsNZ]

Greetings friends. We just had the squall to end all squalls. We were sitting out after a day of exploring Acadia and it was sunny but breezy. Suddenly 50 - 60 mile per hour winds and sheets of rain that I thought would blow our cottage off its foundation. And now this (only 10 minutes later):

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This is not a stream. The tide is coming in and the ocean side is about a foot higher than the tidal pool in front of our cottage:

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Pretty cool if you grew up and live in the midwest like I do!

Nothing beats the freshness and smell of the ocean, the salt inch on the skin after swimming and the sun gently tanning and reinforcing the body with vitamin D. Ahhh! life is so wonderful. - nice pics Paul.

 

[GrantTyler]

It is really good to see you are alive and kicking Paul- I thought you got an abducted by the Wadsworth s . It is really good to hear from you again even if it just to show off a few dots on a bracket . Perfect dots they may be. Cheers Grant

 

[Maarten]

Hi Paul,

Looks great and btw what is cheating? It is all about the result, and the proof is there.

 

[dockattner]

Wonderful work, Paul!

Thanks much, Kurt!

Nothing beats the freshness and smell of the ocean, the salt inch on the skin after swimming and the sun gently tanning and reinforcing the body with vitamin D. Ahhh! life is so wonderful. - nice pics Paul.

Yup. We had a wonderful time. The rugged coastline was breathtaking - and we did our part to keep the lobster economy alive.

It is really good to see you are alive and kicking Paul- I thought you got an abducted by the Wadsworth s . It is really good to hear from you again even if it just to show off a few dots on a bracket . Perfect dots they may be. Cheers Grant

Only a few dots - and now even less has been accomplished in the days since (and the prospects are not good going forward). Too many balls in the air right now and I'm juggling as fast as I can...

Hi Paul,

Looks great and btw what is cheating? It is all about the result, and the proof is there.

Thanks, Maarten. Of course you're right - whatever means necessary in order to accomplish the goal...