Where are some good sites for scale materials?
I have a WoodCraft store in town but there acrylic stuff is 5in at most (for making pens).
Thanks!
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Where are some good sites for scale materials?
I have a WoodCraft store in town but there acrylic stuff is 5in at most (for making pens).
Thanks!
The workshop sticky has tons of info, and at the bottom has places to get the materials. Monster 1 x 6 Inch Acrylic Blanks
Here is the place to buy Monster pen blanks 1 by 6 i think, but u need something to be able to rip the stock to 1/8th hope this helps :)
ML
Here's an astonishingly similar thread from a week ago, with the same question: http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...-material.html
Here's the workshop thread that has the answer: http://straightrazorpalace.com/works...wers-here.html
If you don't have a complete shop stick to 1/8 inch thick sheets... Like Watermark pointed out already...
Call your local Glass shop and Sign shop they should have some stock and scrap
Look at acrylic Clipboards they can be cut and used :)
Great ideas!Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
Sry I missed the sticky. I'll check it out.
Not strictly an acrylic but a paper or linen reinforced thermosetting plastic, is the micarta from Jantz Supply for all your Knife Making needs . There is a bitterly frustrating variety of plastics, woods etc. up to 5in. long, but the micarta goes larger in 1/8in. sheet. One type is a pretty good substitute for ivory.
Now I am stretching my memory back nearly fifty years, but I think I found it was possible to dye the British perspex (pretty much like plexiglas) with the powdered hot dyes used for fabrics. You might care to try it on some small test pieces. But I think you could get some interesting mottled effects by binding with with something to interrupt the dyeing.
I bought some fiberglass resin and am going to try my hand at making micarta!
It could be done, I'm sure. It you have a large vice you could line the jaws with taped wooden slats which won't stick to the resin, and squeeze as much as possible out of the laid-up pieces. That makes for strength, just as it does with ordinary fiberglass, and it would make the layers look most consistent and less noticeable when you cut and chamfer the edges.
Tum, try googling mycarta. It is the homemade version of Micarta and has been made by many people with varying degrees of success.
On another note, does anyone know where you can buy sheets of the swirled acrylic, or celluloid, or whatever it is being made out of today? Like tortoise shell, etc? I looked at the links in the sticky and did not see mention of it anywhere.
Anyone? :)
i think no one is answering because it's already been answered, to a degree. masecraft.com is one place, but the web site shows only 5" stuff, but if you call, as i did when i wanted to know about all this a few weeks ago, you will find that if you explain what you're using it for, and that you are a member here, that there is more stuff to be had than what shows up on their website. i was specifically looking for the tortoiseshell that gsssixgun used on a restore he posted recently, and they had it. i think the senior members here get tired of answering the same old questions, so i'm stepping up here to pass along what they passed along to me. kind of like surgery, or making croissants...see one, do one, teach one.
Ah, I appreciate it. I hadn't seen that info in the sticky, or anywhere else before.
I hadn't seen anything about this before either. There's so much information around here that its easy to miss stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by rannalf
BTW I did see the homemade micarta stuff online. Very cool. That's what got me thinking. I've already changed gears again and am working on a steampunk style with brass and wood. I have the stuff to make micarta. Maybe this weekend I'll try it out. I'd love to use some paper with stuff printed on it but I'm not sure if it will work once the resin is applied. I guess I'll have to experiment :)
I am lucky !
A nice guy give me free a lot of acrylic sheets in various colors.
And there my first homemade scales.
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You sure it's Micarta because fiberglass impregnated resin is G10. Micarta comes only in paper, linen or canvas / resin.Quote:
Originally Posted by tumtatty
They have a nice assortment especially the faux tortoise shell that comes in 6" long sheet.Quote:
Originally Posted by rannalf
Thanks Max, that's perfect!
