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Proxxon; Dremel, etc ?
I am trying to buy a few miniature tools to do some craft work. I looked at
Dremel and Proxxon, mini-table saws, mini wood-lathes etc...but don't know what other makes exists that manufacture mini powertools for craft purposes...Can anyone please give me a bit of advice or someone who worked with the two makes mentioned..much appreciated... |
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You might want to check this site too
http://www.micromark.com/ I haven't bought much in the way of tools but everybody in my Roomboxes group highly recommends them Marian "Pieter" wrote in message ... I am trying to buy a few miniature tools to do some craft work. I looked at Dremel and Proxxon, mini-table saws, mini wood-lathes etc...but don't know what other makes exists that manufacture mini powertools for craft purposes...Can anyone please give me a bit of advice or someone who worked with the two makes mentioned..much appreciated... |
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Just started into the dollhouse thing with my wife. I have a dremel and
a press thingie for it. I don't have any of the router bits and have tried using the carving bits to make grooves in thin strips of wood to simulated a fluted board. It almost works. I'm going out and buying a set of router bits as I want to make crown moulding for the dollhouse as well. Pieter wrote: I am trying to buy a few miniature tools to do some craft work. I looked at Dremel and Proxxon, mini-table saws, mini wood-lathes etc...but don't know what other makes exists that manufacture mini powertools for craft purposes...Can anyone please give me a bit of advice or someone who worked with the two makes mentioned..much appreciated... |
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You might also check out Preac, don't know if they have a website but some
of the miniaturists out there like the line. I found router bits for my Dremel (DH gave me a mini router table for Christmas) at www.widgetsupply.com. |
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You guys make me so envious. I couldn't even put the wiring in mysef. I did
paint and wallpaper thoughl trille "Chuck" wrote in message ... On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:31:53 +0100, "Pieter" wrote: I am trying to buy a few miniature tools to do some craft work. I looked at Dremel and Proxxon, mini-table saws, mini wood-lathes etc...but don't know what other makes exists that manufacture mini powertools for craft purposes...Can anyone please give me a bit of advice or someone who worked with the two makes mentioned..much appreciated... If you're going to spend the money for a mini lathe, you might as well get something woth your hard-earned $$. You can't do better, for the money, than a Jet Mini lathe. It is a very sturdy, well-made tool, quite capable of turning anything from a 40-pound hunk of wet elm, to a 1.5mm tall goblet...both items I have turned on my Jet. IOW, don't limit yourself more than you have to by buying something that is too specialized. There are some really tiny lathes out there that can be had, but you definitely get what you pay for, and there's nothing quite so frustrating as wanting to turn a piece that is just an inch larger than you can fit between centers, or larger than the swing of your lathe. FWIW, I have owned and used Dremel Mototools for almost 30 years and have never asked one to perform a task that it wasn't able to. I have cut and carved every kind of wood imagineable, bone, marble, soapstone, gems, semi-precious stones, steel, silver, copper. I've used it to make jewelry, custom knives, miniatures, detail carving on turned pieces...probably more things than I can ever remember. I don't think you can do better, for the money. -- Chuck *#:^) chaz3913(AT)yahoo(DOT)com Anti-spam sig: please remove "NO SPAM" from e-mail address to reply. September 11, 2001 - Never Forget -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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On Fri, 01 Aug 2003 19:12:26 GMT, wrote:
You guys make me so envious. I couldn't even put the wiring in mysef. I did paint and wallpaper thoughl trille It's quite honestly more a matter of just trying it, as much as anything else. Sure, a modicum of native intelligence is involved, and perhaps a modicum of creativity, but if you have any feel for the materials at all, and are even slightly experienced with making anything by hand, it's really not that hard to make scores of things for yourself. Just look at each project as an individual challenge, break it down into parts and mentally (or on paper) solve each of those "puzzles" before you start working. Once you know how you're going to do it, that's half the battle, right there. After a few such projects, you begin to get a feel for the materials and tools you are working with, and have more and more of an eye for scale and how to make things look realistic. Even the most accomplished miniaturist started with that first project. -- Chuck *#:^) chaz3913(AT)yahoo(DOT)com Anti-spam sig: please remove "NO SPAM" from e-mail address to reply. September 11, 2001 - Never Forget -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 80,000 Newsgroups - 16 Different Servers! =----- |
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Jarmac is another brand of mini table saws. Any mini shop can get one for
you from Dee's. -- Tom #^*^ THE tool man! (GSOLFOT) http://www.tomsmill.com & Kari JSI, DMA Earth and Tree Miniatures http://www.earthandtree.com |
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