Recent content by xnology

I don’t know if it will do anything to the varnish. I would tumble it first just to be safe.

I totally dig it!

3, 4, & 5 ready for testing. So far I am assuming they will help with arthritis and fatigue just because of how different they feel at rest. The #3 has a slice off the finger tips because the clay squeeze was deeper than necessary. After the slice off in 3, all three feel very good in the hand...

This is by far the most comfortable fit on an old Stanley No. 3 I have ever felt. I wasn’t really expecting this big of a difference.

That's one of my #4 planes. I know that they share a common tote traditionally, but where I'm going full custom, mine will be different from 3's to 4's.

I have pushed the horns up as high as I dare to still leave a clear space for the lateral adjustment levers. On the #3, I am still only going to get three fingers on the tote with the index pointing ahead along the iron's edge. That one, I might be able to leave the horn where it is standard...

I haven't tried that yet! I don't know if there would be any adverse reaction from the clay like uneven drying. But I like your thinking. I don't mind the wrinkles. They will come off when I sand and smooth the part. The feel of it just gets better and better. I checked this morning and there...

And yes, the wrinkles in the clay mold are the nitrile glove I was wearing.

If this one fits better, I will inevitably redo my #5 too. I applied clay to a full tote design on my #5. I think the voids in my #4 base tote are going to make a significant fitment difference.

I reconfigured my #4 tote design and took out some spaces where my fingers are on the current shape so there would be voids for the clay to depress into as needed. Applied the clay and squoze the tote. Tomorrow it should be dry and I can fill any cracks and sand and smooth. Then scanning.

There will be no easy way to jig these for drilling after because of the complexity of the custom fit. That said, I do have to model the hole so I can fit the3D printed tote on an actual plane body and really test it. If I didn't, have one in the model, I'd have to drill the 3d printed piece and...

I work almost exclusively in Solidworks. It's what I use at work. There are some mesh software studios that I will also use depending on the project. I usually use these to smooth out the mesh and simplify the scans where possible or practical.

Challenges of 3D scanning something as intricate as this tote: Size matters. The more data you can capture the better the final result will be. Scan 01 is the result of three separate scans aligned together. I have already cleaned off the phantom points that inevitably show up - not parts of...

I have painted items and I have other surface treatments that help. But nothing makes it come in as right as you'd want it. I can, but is is literally tailored to my exact hand fitment so unless we are twins, it probably wouldn't do you much good. I can post the raw shape file that I got to...

Sounds logical, but... The problem with the scanner that I currently have, as well as those that I have researched, is that it really prefers a uniform - ish object as far as color, sheen and contrast are concerned. I have tried many different techniques and when the object being scanned has...