Another WIP from anotherpainter

[anotherpainter]

Plinth Disaster II
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Ok... so after i was unable to get a straight cut, i bought some wood to build a slider.
I watched every plywood board they had and selected the straightest one to get a cut.
Sadly even this one is not really flat.
After glue everything together it even got worse. With fine trimming i finally got it kind of straight.


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Then i fixed everything in place and must have moved it a little because it got completely uneven again...


To keep cutting with a 2KW table-saw in my apartment is not a really an option.
So i bought some Chinese electronics (that will arrive in some weeks) to hopeful get the saw running in the basement. If i archive that, i will build a new slider (this time straight).



In the meantime i sanded one square per hand just to have a base for the war-photograph to final make pictures and be done with him.

 

[anotherpainter]

Part 6: Touch-up & Plinth & Photographing
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Touch-up:
I searched the whole miniature with an magnifier and fixed all little mistakes that i could find. While doing so, i decided to repaint the scarf a third time.

Plinth:
I took my wood plinth and mounted him. Its zebrawood oiled with linseed oil concentrate.

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It is hand sanded "straight". So not very straight at all. If you want to know why, check my "Plinth Disaster Part II" post above.

Photographing:
I made a new "photobooth".

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I used an large box (e.g. one where a tablesaw fit in ^^), put black paper on the back and white printing paper in the front.
The white paper will help later with the white correction.

The box faces away from the window so that all lights come indirect from the white wall in front of it.

Minimum ISO - exposure time as long as needed (i used 1 sec today). I also use auto trigger so that the touch of my hand don't blur the picture.

After that i white correct the pictures in gimp and correct the saturation down (the auto white correcter overshoots it). Last Step is to put them all together and then resize and compress the final picture.

 

[anotherpainter]

Part 7: Finished Bust
Finaly done with him! He took way more time then planned.


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All Pictues: http://www.coolminiornot.com/409099




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[Maenas]

Voted ^^
Face is a bit unfocused though, but I saw your wip work so I know you did a nice job on it. Great efforts, congratulations!

 

[Foxtail]

Excellent bust. Even more impressed with the plinth

Cracking work

 

[anotherpainter]

Thanks.
@Maenas I did notice that something is off with the face of the first picture but did not know what. I trust the autofocuss so much i did not think about focus ...
@Foxtail zebrawood just looks awesome. All you have to do is oil it. I wish painting would be that easy ^^

 

[anotherpainter]

Plinth Desaster Part III
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We still have a couple of problems ahead in our crazy, never seen before, impossible and world-changing task of cutting a piece of wood.

First its time to figure out a way to run the table-saw in the basement.
Of course this can be done by buying a tablesaw with build in soft-starter... OR :


Build an Electric high load Dimmer:
Warning: High voltage electro installation ahead.
DO NOT DO THAT AT HOME!

I ordered a "Phase-fired controller" from china that arrived today.

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The inside looks like expected. I found a youtube video of someone who back-engineered it.
Its rated for 4KW (- 50% ebay china safety) = 2KW (you never know if the used components are originals or a cheap copys but then you never know that for any electronic device...).

In theory this device allows us to regulate the power of any 1-phase ac motor (or any ohm-load).

I first hooked it up to an light bulb to test it. So far so good!

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Time to build an usable device out of it. I first wanted to connect it directly to the saw but the amount of sawdust and heat + need for ventilation is an bad combination.
Besides that, if i build it as universal plug, i can use it as speed controller for all kind of power-tools.

I was not to concerned about the heat-sink because its not used over long periods of time (and we use 50% safety power-rating).
So a plastic case with few holes should be good enough. In future i will add more holes and an temperature fuse.
I was however concerned about cable rip safety. So i used an cable-holder and put an additional nod in the cable to prevent it from getting free under pressure.


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Now we can plug the table saw into it and slowly crank up the power/speed ...

AND THE FUSE HOLDS!
One Problem solved one more to go (a new straight slider)

TO BE CONTINUED....

 

[silasvb]

This is absolutely mental! Much more interesting than painting silly little bits of plastic.

Cant wait to see how it turns out.

S

 

[KruleBear]

You are at least as nuts as the rest of us. I am really enjoying your journey....so, how much will this plinth cost by the time you are done? Lol

 

[anotherpainter]

@silasvb
I would describe it to you but i cant!
No one saw A STRAIGHT PIECE OF WOOD yet, so we all have to see what it will look like and what it appearance will do to our society.

@KruleBear
I will calculate the cost at the end.
but A STRAIGHT PIECE OF WOOD!

Don't think about the return of investment (I mean the movie and book rights alone...).
Don't even look on the fame it will bring me (All the documentations, prizes, novels, monuments... )
Just think about what mankind could archive with it!
Teleportation, Immortality, intergalactical trade routes, a steven seagal movie that is good. The impossible becomes possible! You cant put a price tag on that!

 

[Maenas]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA so funny!
Indeed it seems almost impossible to obtain... next combustible for cars will be straight pieces of wood, just because of their rarity. LOL

 

[anotherpainter]

Plinth Desaster Part IV
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Like i pointed out in part II, the bottom of my slider for the table saw was not flat.
This caused all kind of troubles so i decided to rebuild the slider.

After the fact that my first tool-shop could not sell straight plywood i went to another tool-shop.
Here the first thing i discovered is the big sign at the entrance that advertise the EXACT tablesaw i bought on amazon for 45€ less...

The friendly guy in the sawing department made me aware of the obvious. Hes unable to sell me a straight piece of wood.
I set out to create the first ever straight piece of wood in history of mankind. How could i think to buy straight piece of wood to build one?

After 20 min discussion we decided to go with aluminum reinforced Plastik.

I found out on the way to the cashier that sawed aluminium is very sharp!
Thanks to the nice lady with the first aid box that insisted to plaster my hand, i survived.
But it did cross my mind that the gods of chaos do whatever is in their power to stop me from creating this wonder. The amount of obstacles is comical by now.

At home the first step was to clean the aluminum from all the blood of my hands.
While doing this, i realise that i cant just glue the other parts on it. Wood-glue and aluminium is not a very stable joint ... in fact i don't know any glue that would hold this two together...
Screws would be a problem too because the board is so fin. Then it came to me that i had to slide the thing and aluminium on iron don't make a very good slide.
I broke with the first law of tool-shops and had to pay for it:
Never listen to the employs of tool-shops!

Back to my old slider:
I put it in the shower and watered it as hot as possible every hour for 5 hours, then let it dry over night while putting weights on it.

AND .... it did not work. After drying it was still bend.

I wanted to put it on my "old wood that you will need, with a chance of 1 to 10000000, one day in your life" pile, but then could not let go of it.

It came to me that my slider problem is a calibration problem.


TO BE CONTINUED...

 

[anotherpainter]

Plinth Desaster Part V​

Now i will try to just adjust my existing slider to get a straight cut in all dimensions.


First put in more precise and durable wood sliders on the ground.

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I went back to the saw and discovered that the blade on 0° was not really on 0°.
Luckily there was an option to adjust:

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Then i straighten the back-bar with one of my newly owned aluminium pieces.

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After that i make some test cuts and move the back-bar a tiny bit.

I hope tomorrow will be final update...
TO BE CONTINUED...

 

[anotherpainter]

Plinth Success Part VI

I HUMBLE PRESENT TO THE WORLD
THE FIRST EVER STRAIGHT PIECE OF WOOD:

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How Straight is it?
Because the piece of wood is PERFECT STRAIGHT there is nothing in this world to measure it with.
However we can use our PERFECT STRAIGHT piece of wood to measure other tools and surfaces.
I did that and found out that THE MEASERING TOOLS are all 0,32° one site and 0,47° other site off...


Cost
~140 table saw
~45 good wood bars
~9 plywood
~5 cheap wood bar
~8 small wood bars (there where looses)
~16 all kind of screws and bolds
~10 aluminum plastic board
~9 AC phase cuter
~2 Plug-box
~2 1m 16A electric cable
~7 plastic case
~2 4mm drill bit (i destroyed one on the way)
~12 ~40 km fuel and car use
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~267€ + ~30? working hours

Now with this part done, i decided to put the table-saw away and life a happy and relaxing life knowing that i once achieved the impossible.

FIN
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PS: What do you guys think about Stone plinths? Wouldn't that be awesome?

 

[Octavian80]

Lol, at least you can say, after all that craziness, you produced a great looking plinth! You should do commission work LOL. Nice work sir.

 

[Maenas]

Lol, at least you can say, after all that craziness, you produced a great looking plinth! You should do commission work LOL. Nice work sir.

Agreed on that!
The resulting plinth looks perfect, just like a roman column.... it also reminds me of a monolith on a specific space movie....
Now you should paint something to put on top of it ^^

 

[anotherpainter]

Thanks guys but this is just a prove of concepts. This piece owned his own spot the under my finished figures straigt and boring as it is.
However its not good enough wood to actually use as plinth. I have some ideas for future plinth that are not as plain. But this ideas dont fit what i want to paint next and its enough woodworking for now.

Im did start and cancel a figure on the way and restart a new one right now. More about that one Soon (TM)

 

[Foxtail]

Superb plinth! Excellent new avatar as well!

Can we start putting orders in yet?

 

[KruleBear]

Lol....know you need to buy a lathe to build a round base!

 

[anotherpainter]

@Foxtail
thanks. Needed an real avatar anyway and after so much time and blood went in this stupid woodpiece it may as well be my picture ^^

@KruleBear
Just started a mini that would fit way better on a round base. It actually did cross my mind to buy a lathe.
But i will resist this time!... On day perhaps...