Hi, I mostly use pear, I prefer the more pinky option (but I played a little with the color on the upperdeck hull inner planking to make some contract between spirketting, clamp and quickstuff that have different thickness). For the black I use the black hornbeam, and on the decks here for the first time I put the white hornbeam. It's actually quite different from the black hornbeam in terms of structure: they are both firm, but the white hornbeam is easily piling (or napping, of fluffing - not sure which English word is correct) at the edges, while the black hornbeam is more like a plastic.Dear Oleg
You may have explained before, but I would love to know what types of wood you use, they are really beautiful
For decorations I use boxwood. Or it's castello. I guess it's a whole holywar as to how correctly to call these sorts of wood - what is castello and what is boxwood... in any case what I use now is not what I would like to use. I have a couple of small examples of what I was told was a "boxwood", and it is more firm, more yellow and more looking like a polished stone, in other words more preferable to me, compared to what I use now and what was also sold to me as a "boxwood" (I tried several sellers and they all sent me the same wood different from those small examples I still keep as my perfection example
). It's also good, but not so yellow and not so nice-looking. Maybe what I have as examples is some sort of european boxwood, but for now I can't find anyone who is selling planks/sheets from it. Stefan is building his RG from it
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This is an example of the milling of some complex parts.
Here is the simulation in Catia:
Fixing the blank on the table:
The program is ready:
Rough machining of the first side:
Final machinig of the first side:
Now flip the blank:
Rough machining of the other side:
Final machining of the other side:
Machining is done. Now remove from blank and grind off all the bridges:
Here is the simulation in Catia:
Fixing the blank on the table:
The program is ready:
Rough machining of the first side:
Final machinig of the first side:
Now flip the blank:
Rough machining of the other side:
Final machining of the other side:
Machining is done. Now remove from blank and grind off all the bridges:
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These acrylic windows gave me very hard time. Originally I thought that I will be able to cut them with my laser. In this way they came in the Bonhomme Richard kit that I assembled before. But my diode laser was just simply going through the acrelic without giving a scratch to it. Probably you need a CO2 laser to work with acrylic.
So I had to go to my milling machine. I broke about 10 different bitts untill I figured out the working parameters, before that the acrylic was melting and was wound up on the bitt or the bitt just broke.
So I had to go to my milling machine. I broke about 10 different bitts untill I figured out the working parameters, before that the acrylic was melting and was wound up on the bitt or the bitt just broke.
Hi Oleg,
Really nice work again.
What is the cnc machine you are running?
Really nice work again.
What is the cnc machine you are running?
A chinese one, I bought it on Ebay. 800W with water cooling, 600x400mm, ball screws
Seems to work perfect for these tiny details.
WOW - great results (and work) -> BRAVO
Bonjour, très beau travail ! bonne continuation.