Re: I built a viewer

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/22/99, Greg Erker wrote:
>>http://www.deering.org/viewer

>  Do you have a photo of the handle you
>mention?  Can't quite make it out
>on your main photo.

I don't, but I think it's the same finial that Robert used on his:

http://www.skep.com/3D/thorpe/thorpemf.htm

>  Forgot to say that your nosehole
>sculpting method is wonderful.

I made a jig to hold it at the right angle and used the "drill press" 
to drill through diagonally.  The table saw finished the job.

(The drill press was a piece of 1/4 inch steel rod, held stationery 
with some metal strap.  A cordless drill at one end, and a 1 inch 
hole saw at the other.)

On 10/22/99, Brenda Nowlan wrote:
>Tom, it is beautiful!  Now I must have a stencil on my
>viewer too!  Where did you get such a tiny table saw?  Don't
>suppose you have a tiny compound mitre saw?

I bought it from Pearl Paint.  It's made in Illinois by Jarmac.  The 
blade is four inches across.  I bought another, cheaper one by Inmac 
which was garbage and returned it.  The Jarmac is a real table saw 
with height and angle adjustment.

Cleaning up the sawdust in the bathroom is a cinch.  Just hose it down.

No compound mitre saw. Yet.

Tom