Unlike most hobbies, ship model making requires few expensive tools. Almost every household contains the beginnings of a fine model maker's tool kit. The rest can be made, improvised, and bought as the work progresses.
Especially tools for the manufacturers of ship models is his knife. It can be anything from an inexpensive pocketknife, a high-grade wood carver's tool. Price and handle style are unimportant as long as the blade is sharp and has the quality of the recording and practice of aEdge. Many experts rely on different types of "Slöjd" or bank knife. Others use nothing more than an ordinary pocket knife, and others, the cost-ground vegetable knife kitchen knives, and sharpened to feel comfortable shapes, can be best suited for the job.
For the special carving and whittling jobs that are often required of models, as well as for general shaping and roughing, the layman can be discarded on its way from sections of specially shaped knife blades hack. Land forShape, hardened, honed to a fine edge, and mounted in suitable grips, they are one of the most useful sets of tools that can have the model builder. To sharpen a knife, just his teeth, and the form at the end. Then, as a precursor to the hardening, grind one side of light or polish them with emery paper.
While you're polishing the blade, put an iron bar in your furnace or forge, and heat until it becomes red hot. Take your knife with a pair ofHot tongs or pliers on the handle end, or tang, and you move the blade through the iron grate, making the polished surface to a light brown. Then they quickly plunge vertically into a bucket or jug with water. Finally, give the blade its final grinding and sharpening. In grinding of thin instruments careful not to draw the mood. If you use an emery wheel, you should keep the work cool by dipping it frequently in water.
If during the process of designing your knife, you will file a series ofof V-notches in the opposite side of the blade, you can provide an excellent tool for marking lines on the deck planking imitation of your ship models. Grind the top edge of the blade to a rounded point, file in ten or twelve teeth on the highest point of the curve, and then with a fine flat file, slightly dull the tips of the teeth. Lines are drawn on the wood with a pencil and the tool back and forth over the lines with a slight pressure. To ensure thatstraight lines, it is true, and a uniform, you can guide the tool with a ruler.
Tiny furrows in various shapes and sizes can be also used hack saw blades. The blade is dark only by heating to a softened and put it on a brick. After it was permitted to cool, the teeth are removed with a file.
The form is then gouge by a vise to the correct width and drive the blade into the hole by pounding a wooden long, round instrument with a win against himHolzhammer. Another and perhaps more accurate method is to cut a bead using block to fit the desired curve of the tube.
To stiffen the otherwise resilient blade, the curved channel running along the entire length of the tool. The edge of the tube, which has an inside and an outside bevel, should be characterized and partially tightened before it is cured.
Blunt on hardening the tool, heat the blade to a red held for about 1 cm of its length, vertical, they plunge into cold water. ToTemperament lighten it about 1 cm at the point and hold it over a flame in a way that the tool is heated in the middle. Watch the polished part of the blade, and as soon as a light brown or straw color appear, they plunge into the water. This should be an excellent knife for shipbuilding.
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