gambaru on mon 24 nov 97
I wish to do some lattice like work. I am looking for a tool much like a
hole cutter but I want oval shapes (small ) So, I realize I will have to
punch out, not rotate. Can anyone think of another craft area that might
have such a fine metal shape in their arsenals. Cake decorating, leather,
etc. I really would like to avoid doing them all with an exacto knife.
Thanks a bunch. MB
John H. Rodgers on tue 25 nov 97
-- [ From: John H. Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
Hobby shops often carry brass tubing with cross-sections that are round,
oval, or teardrop shaped. Cost 2 or 3 $. With a jewelers file a sharp edge
can be filed on for punching purposes. In clay, rigid plastic works also.
Joh Rodgers
In Alabama
-------- REPLY, Original message follows --------
Date: Monday, 24-Nov-97 10:00 AM
From: gambaru \ Internet: (gambaru@ebtech.net)
To: CLAYART LIST \ Internet: (clayart@lsv.uky.edu)
Subject: searching a tool
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
I wish to do some lattice like work. I am looking for a tool much like a
hole cutter but I want oval shapes (small ) So, I realize I will have to
punch out, not rotate. Can anyone think of another craft area that might
have such a fine metal shape in their arsenals. Cake decorating, leather,
etc. I really would like to avoid doing them all with an exacto knife.
Thanks a bunch. MB
-------- REPLY, End of original message --------
David Hendley on tue 25 nov 97
Simple. Bend a hole cutter into an oval.
I've bent pieces of copper tubing into all sorts of punch shapes.
DH
At 10:00 AM 11/24/97 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I wish to do some lattice like work. I am looking for a tool much like a
>hole cutter but I want oval shapes (small ) So, I realize I will have to
>punch out, not rotate. Can anyone think of another craft area that might
>have such a fine metal shape in their arsenals. Cake decorating, leather,
>etc. I really would like to avoid doing them all with an exacto knife.
>Thanks a bunch. MB
>
>
David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
See David Hendley's Pottery Page at
http://www.sosis.com/hendley/david/
Bill Aycock on tue 25 nov 97
MB- most of the popular Hobby craft outlets (Ben Franklin, Hobby Lobby,
etc) have small brass and aluminum tubing in various sizes and shapes in
more than one department. Usually the first place to look is in the Model
Airplane and Model Boat sections. If you dont find them there, call a
Model airplane store.
Good luck from Persimmon Hill
At 10:00 AM 11/24/97 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I wish to do some lattice like work. I am looking for a tool much like a
>hole cutter but I want oval shapes (small ) So, I realize I will have to
>punch out, not rotate. Can anyone think of another craft area that might
>have such a fine metal shape in their arsenals. Cake decorating, leather,
>etc. I really would like to avoid doing them all with an exacto knife.
>Thanks a bunch. MB
>
>
Bill Aycock --- Persimmon Hill --- Woodville, Alabama, US 35776
--- (in the N.E. corner of the State) ---
W4BSG -- Grid EM64vr --
baycock@hiwaay.net
David Buck on tue 25 nov 97
gambaru wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I wish to do some lattice like work. I am looking for a tool much like a
> hole cutter but I want oval shapes (small ) So, I realize I will have to
> punch out, not rotate. Can anyone think of another craft area that might
> have such a fine metal shape in their arsenals. Cake decorating, leather,
> etc. I really would like to avoid doing them all with an exacto knife.
> Thanks a bunch. MB
You could use some thin-wall hollow metal pipe. First select a
diameter about half way between the two dimentions you want. Then using
wood or metal as an anvil gently hammer the pipe into an oval shape. The
cutting end can be sharpened with a file or sandpaper. A cleanout hole
can be added part way down the tube. Cupper pipe is easy to shape.
Steel might need some heat.
David B. Buck
Nepean, Ont., Canada
Louis Katz on wed 26 nov 97
Oval ish tubing can be purchased from Hobby stores that cater to model
builders.
Louis
Eleanora Eden on fri 28 nov 97
I have purchased a variety of punch-out clay tools from one of the major
suppliers with a spring-loaded inner section that pushes the cut-out off
the tool. Handy. Come in squares as well as rounds maybe 3-4 sizes of
each.....
At 10:00 AM 11/24/97 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I wish to do some lattice like work. I am looking for a tool much like a
>hole cutter but I want oval shapes (small ) So, I realize I will have to
>punch out, not rotate. Can anyone think of another craft area that might
>have such a fine metal shape in their arsenals. Cake decorating, leather,
>etc. I really would like to avoid doing them all with an exacto knife.
>Thanks a bunch. MB
>
>
Eleanora Eden 802 869-2003
Paradise Hill
Bellows Falls, VT 05101 eden@sover.net
Kathleen Weiler on sun 30 nov 97
If you will use it on a slab, possibly a series of small oval and leaf
shape clay punches that I think I bought in a craft store near their
Fimo or such "clay" may work for you.
Even a plastic template that you make or buy (for airbrush work) would
be less frustrating than lots of reehand xacto knife cutting.
grandma k
| |
|
