I've purchased a few Dispae tools in the last year or so from the local hobby shop. A little costly but well made and well designed. Looks like I need this one too Bryian
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I've purchased a few Dispae tools in the last year or so from the local hobby shop. A little costly but well made and well designed. Looks like I need this one too Bryian
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The hammer looks very much like the type I use to attach grommets to a tarp or other coverings. The grommets come in two pieces. You force the flanged piece into the cloth, place the cap piece on top then hammer the over hang into the cap. The rounded head of the hammer smoothes over flange. Clean out any extra cloth in the hole with sharp knife.
Yankee Clipper
You can never have too many clamps.
As anybody who has ever tried to cut perfectly matched miters for model cases, picture frames, interior trim, or any other mitered corner knows, it's a lot harder than it looks to get a perfectly matched mitered joint without any edge chipping or tear out. Small stuff can be done successfully with a fine-toothed blade on a Byrnes saw if one takes the requisite care in setting up the angles. For anything larger, a shooting board and a sharp block plane will do the job as long as one is careful to come at it from both directions and not cut past the far end and chip the edge. Then, too, it takes some care to get the lengths matching exactly which for me often means more than one try. (So I always cut my case frames before I buy the glass cut to size from the local picture framing shop.)
Full-size table saws and powered miter saws are much too rough and often not accurate enough to do the job without requiring a lot of trimming to get the angle perfect without any edges chipping. Hand saw miter jigs are a bit better, but not by a lot. There is a tool for solving the problem, save for edge chipping. That is the H.C. Marsh Miter Machine (later Stanley-Marsh #100.) I have been fortunate to have come across two of these no longer made combination miter sawing and assembly jigs over the years, amazingly with their accompanying Disston 26" and 22" backsaws, respectively. I found one in an online auction and another at a garage sale serendipitously a week apart. I bought the second one because it was too good a deal to pass up and will permit me to glue up two corners simultaneously, thereby cutting my "glue setting" time in half. One much appreciated unique feature of this miter saw and vise, which accommodates work up to 4" in width, is that it rotates 360 degrees and tilts 90 degrees which permits moving the joined corner to a convenient angle for sawing a kerf for a spline or drilling for a dowel or for nailing. I bought one of these machines and its saw for $25.00 USD, the other for $50.00 USD. They're running around $300.00 to $350.00 on the tool collectors' market, less their backsaws which can run as much as $250 and up for Disstons in good condition. Not anywhere close to being an essential for ship modeling, but very handy for building wooden framed glass model cases, picture frames, and mitered interior trim. If you come across one for cheap, buy it!
H.C. Marsh Miter Machine (photos from internet
The Marsh Miter Machine was marketed primarily for picture framing and, back in the day, they were standard equipment in every commercial framing shop. They were accompanied by the Lion Miter Trimmer, a cast iron lever-operated shear which shaves the mitered edges of workpieces up to 4" by 6" at any angle desired between 45 degrees and 90 degrees, leaving a perfectly smooth finish with no edge chipping. Invented in the late 1800's, the Lion Miter Trimmer is still manufactured today and sold under the labels of various specialty hardware retailers such as Grizzly, Lee Valley, and Highland Hardware, being marketed not only for use in picture framing, but as a miter shaving machine for any mitered joints within its capacity. I stumbled upon one in nearly new condition at the recycling resale center at the local dumps the other day and was able to buy it for $50.00 USD. They retail for between $300.00 USD and $350.00 USD. I'm looking forward to using this beautiful hunk of cast iron and steel in the near future. It will come in handy for making ship model cases and any other miter work that comes along.
See: https://www.highlandwoodworking.com...an/miter-trimmer-woodworking-tool-review.html for demonstration of use and application details.
Lion Miter Trimmer, photo of Highland Hardware's currently produced copy of the original:
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Full-size table saws and powered miter saws are much too rough and often not accurate enough to do the job without requiring a lot of trimming to get the angle perfect without any edges chipping. Hand saw miter jigs are a bit better, but not by a lot. There is a tool for solving the problem, save for edge chipping. That is the H.C. Marsh Miter Machine (later Stanley-Marsh #100.) I have been fortunate to have come across two of these no longer made combination miter sawing and assembly jigs over the years, amazingly with their accompanying Disston 26" and 22" backsaws, respectively. I found one in an online auction and another at a garage sale serendipitously a week apart. I bought the second one because it was too good a deal to pass up and will permit me to glue up two corners simultaneously, thereby cutting my "glue setting" time in half. One much appreciated unique feature of this miter saw and vise, which accommodates work up to 4" in width, is that it rotates 360 degrees and tilts 90 degrees which permits moving the joined corner to a convenient angle for sawing a kerf for a spline or drilling for a dowel or for nailing. I bought one of these machines and its saw for $25.00 USD, the other for $50.00 USD. They're running around $300.00 to $350.00 on the tool collectors' market, less their backsaws which can run as much as $250 and up for Disstons in good condition. Not anywhere close to being an essential for ship modeling, but very handy for building wooden framed glass model cases, picture frames, and mitered interior trim. If you come across one for cheap, buy it!
H.C. Marsh Miter Machine (photos from internet
The Marsh Miter Machine was marketed primarily for picture framing and, back in the day, they were standard equipment in every commercial framing shop. They were accompanied by the Lion Miter Trimmer, a cast iron lever-operated shear which shaves the mitered edges of workpieces up to 4" by 6" at any angle desired between 45 degrees and 90 degrees, leaving a perfectly smooth finish with no edge chipping. Invented in the late 1800's, the Lion Miter Trimmer is still manufactured today and sold under the labels of various specialty hardware retailers such as Grizzly, Lee Valley, and Highland Hardware, being marketed not only for use in picture framing, but as a miter shaving machine for any mitered joints within its capacity. I stumbled upon one in nearly new condition at the recycling resale center at the local dumps the other day and was able to buy it for $50.00 USD. They retail for between $300.00 USD and $350.00 USD. I'm looking forward to using this beautiful hunk of cast iron and steel in the near future. It will come in handy for making ship model cases and any other miter work that comes along.
See: https://www.highlandwoodworking.com...an/miter-trimmer-woodworking-tool-review.html for demonstration of use and application details.
Lion Miter Trimmer, photo of Highland Hardware's currently produced copy of the original:
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