Big Huge *DOH* Moment!

[Ron0909]

Hi Guys

I don't know why I never made a blade like this before now! I've been paper modeling for quite a few years now and one of the biggest pains I found were cutting notches out of 1mm card. I can't count the number of slight little over cuts I've made or just plain sloppy cuts while cutting out former slots. The blade started out as a simple Olfa hobby blade cut down with a cutting/grinding wheel on my rotary tool. After a quick grind to get a chisel shape on the tip, a few passes over 400 grit emery paper sharpened it right up. The reason this came up at all is that I messed up all the 'timberheads' (think thats right) while planking my ship. I had to re-cut a ton of the ship's bulkheads to use the top 1/3 portion of them. I'll post some pics tomorrow in the Bellona thread to clear up my mumbling Anyways...my cuts before this surgery were really crappy and this fixed them right up on the new parts.
Now I can re-use a ton of old blades and make some different sizes.

Anyone else have any of these moments of brilliance/stupidity/laziness?

DOH!!!

[cgutzmer]

AWESOME! yewah, I have hit that snag before too probably not to the same extent but I know exactly of what you speak

[Leif Ohlsson]

That is a GREAT little idea (and not so little either!). - L.

[Ron0909]

I hope this proves useful to someone. It's a pretty trivial modification but like I said, why didn't I do this before?!! If there is one thing this usually broke paper modeler has it's old blades Leif, your Proxxon would give you a great helping hand too!

[Zathros]

I've got a collection of odd tipped X-acto blades. As you say, they really help out. I have made semi-circular type tools also. A tube with a sharp edge cut an an angle can give you different size arcs. When I was a Mold Maker, this type of tooling was necessary for "feeling" your way around blind parts of molds. Tools rule, and it's great when one gets an "Aha!" moment!