You know the barrels you get that have no lines that go up and down, like wine, nail keg.....
How would you go about carving these in there?
Toad
(ok, you can say I am abit an!l)
Tom Trigg
Cool ideas, will try them!!!
Ole Toad
I have a skinny little diamond wheel (545) for my dremel that does some pretty fine lines.
-Brian
Age is only a state of mind, keep the mind active and enjoy life
two tone wrote:Hi Toad I rember the last time you tried DIY put some gloves on this time the good lady does not want to be patching you up again
Ok, ok, Two Tone, Trigg, Dwbeckett is on me for da hooch, so I will not drink any hard Dr. Pepper before I do this!
Toad (dad is still in hospital )
GearDrivenSteam wrote:However you scribe them, remember not to make them too perfect. You might wanna add a knott or two.
There ain't no knott holes in good ones, what are you thinking???? Coopers would not make one with knotts in them, but I could be wrong
Toad, You been reading my mind.
If I were to undertake that little job (and one day I will) here's what I'd do:
Get an old, smallish file that's comfortable to hold, or put a handle ('duck' tape works) that feels good. Sharpen that rascal on the grinder and scratch it on a scrap of wood until you get the size and look of line you want. It'll prob'ly end up looking like a 'V', but not hollowed out. It could be a hook-nose form would work better. Dunno.
Do you have a steady hand? Yes? Then skip the rest 'n have at 'er. Howsumever, if you're like me, cut a wood block just the least tad longer than your barrel, and wide enough so it's tall enough to give you a good steadyrest. Put barrel (with protecting tape on ends) in vise with block/steadyrest alongside it, and clamp it and the steadyrest down. Lean your tool down and make a light scratch. Remember that the barrel changes diameter as you go along towards the middle, so you need to compensate a tad with the tool. Staves of a barrel is wider in the middle than at the ends. If you're extra particular, you can sandpaper out a radius in your guideblock to account for the problem.
Les W. in ~.36 feet of snow, along the south bank of the Missouri. (That's in 1/20) scale.)
Toad,
This is plain barrel from Michael's with lines scribed using a heavy Xacto blade. Heavy glove on the holding hand as some force was required to cut the lines.
Then painting and you wind up with something like this:
Hope this helps.
TJ
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TJ-Lee wrote: Toad,This is plain barrel from Michael's with lines scribed using a heavy Xacto blade. Heavy glove on the holding hand as some force was required to cut the lines.Then painting and you wind up with something like this:Hope this helps.TJ
TJ, let me see that knife, what # is it?
TJ-Lee wrote:
I do have another question for you. What is that orange RR vechile to the left of the barrel in the background????
TJ-Lee wrote: Toad, Heavy glove on the holding hand as some force was required to cut the lines.
Heavy glove on the holding hand as some force was required to cut the lines.
Toad maybe you should ware two glove's on each hand.
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Hey my drilled finger healed up well! I do my own sewing too!
But gettn two chain mail gloves for fishing are looking good about now!
About 1 week after my other finger healed I killed the nexted finger with a dremel gouge (sp) bit!
A few posts back, I saw where someone is buying their barrels from Michael's. If you are buying them from craft stores, you are overpaying for them. I posted the following in the "Scratchbuilding & Kitbashing" forum. It contains a link to the manufacturer of the barrels who sells them at $15.00 for 100 barrels.... here is the post....
The other night, I bought some wood barrels from one of the big-chain craft stores at 99 cents for a bag of 2. Tonight I looked on the package and low and behold, the manufacturer has a website where you can get them even cheaper. For $15.00 I bought a bag of 100 wooden barrels for the Beerhall, beer garden and Krausbrau Brauerei in my G-scale alpine German village of Krausbach (named after my late godparents Karl & Christine Kraus who were from Nurnberg, Germany). If you are building a structure that is in need of barrels, oil drums or milk cans check them out at http://www.craftparts.com/mall/page37.asp I hope I am not in violation of any forum rules by posting the link as my intention is to help anyone else who may be looking for these items. The barrels are 1 5/8 inches tall by 1 1/8 inches wide. They also have a selection of other wood parts which may be of some help for a scratch-building project.
Captain Stryker
Rene, This is a good one to add to the list
http://www.craftparts.com/mall/page37.asp
> TJ, let me see that knife, what # is it?
No. 1 knife with No. 11 blade. Be carefull. But I've done a dozen barrels so far and still have all my fingers <g>.
> I do have another question for you. What is that orange RR vechile to the left of the barrel in the background????
Picked up this old and used LGB diesel set for $50 bucks (US). No idea what I'll do with it so far. The orange item in the barrel pic (man, you have better eyesight than me!) is, I think, the work caboose from the set pictured (based on the candy strip in the pic).
Best,
Two, I am ok, just have not felt like doing anthing RR lately.
Off the subject but how bad is the Gas in the UK? $3.00 here now in my town.
I had ole chap of mine who lived there and at one point it was $2.00 (if I remember right) and pack of smokes was $5.00, this was while back.
awh...it did go up again. dang sad! taxed to death!
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