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Nice and neat. Nothing like any of the too many work areas I have!!
For rivets or bolt heads, try and pick up a couple BOOK PUNCHES, the smallest sizes are in the 1mm range and can hammer out rivets far faster than cutting by hand. You can also try leather punches but you would have to sharpen yourself as they are far to dull to punch card stock, but a decent very small Swedish round file can take care of that!
here is an old thread link discussing them...
http://www.zealot.com/threads/compas-de-corte.179371/#post-1009222
This awesome! Thanks!
I saw a guy make a tip for an epoxy filled syringe, that was premixed, and he would push out the bolt heads to the desired thickness, then just cut them off. The epoxy didn't stick to the syringe, so hardening wasn't an issue. Lots of ways to make these details like this. I liked Gandolf's idea though, less messy!
My pleasure! I got tons of advice just can't always remember it, after all these years!
Yep... I made a disk with a 1mm hex shaped hole in it for a clay tool that would squeeze out long 1mm hex string in sculpy, but baking them was a pain, and they were hard to stick down... Book punch is the way to go, wish I had the ability to fabricate a 1mm-and smaller book punch using brass tubing! I have thought about it, but getting the shape and the open tube to extract the punched out hexes is just not gonna happen anytime soon!
CG Admin is working on the picture uploading issue now. It should be working within a few days.So, I was reading around Zealot and ran across this great thread:
http://www.zealot.com/threads/raging-rivets.171785/
I figured I'd give Iehcyfer's method of using a pin and wood glue a shot. Instead, I ended up using a toothpick as my applicator. Worked out pretty well. Though I cannot seem to upload a picture of the progress. Is there an upper limit of pictures and file sizes per thread? I might have to delete or severely scale down the previous images...
CG Admin is working on the picture uploading issue now. It should be working within a few days.