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| Laythe:
Hah, that's neat! Reminds me of pinning the balsa parts directly onto the plans to build model airplanes. :) |
| Ond:
--- Quote from: Laythe on February 18, 2019, 03:37:27 am ---Hah, that's neat! Reminds me of pinning the balsa parts directly onto the plans to build model airplanes. :) --- End quote --- I love using the 1:1 plans, apart from setting up cutting templates it lets me keep a quick visual check on parts I've cut. BTW I didn’t try to bend the aluminium strip to the shape but rather I let the metal stay under tension to produce it's own smooth curve. A bit like a Bezier spline curve if you know what that is. Here's the way the cutting panned out using this technique. First I finished the rough cuts (leaving a quarter inch or so around the outline) with my jigsaw: Next I flush trimed along my template using a half inch top bearing flush trim bit. I bought this bit brand new for this project - cuts nice and sharp! I flipped the template over to cut the other side. I'd never get a smooth square cut like this using my jigsaw, especially this PHAT MDF: Here's the finished piece so far. I've also cut its twin out. The photo makes it look wider at the top than it really is. |
| Ond:
Moving along .... Today I cut one of the control panel supports (that's what I'm calling it). Again using the shaped aluminum formed cutting templates: |
| Ond:
I snuck in a few more cuts before it got too hot here today. Now that's a chunky control panel! |
| Arroyo:
How you manage to juggle 3 projects at once, especially at this level of precision is mind boggling. |
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