Other than the fact I had to wait forever to get the thing it seems to be quite a nice tool. I've just started building my first balsa airplane and I found this item recommended in one of the blogs I read to figure out what I'm doing.
It does take a little care at first to develop the slight skill needed Just remember, you do need to use it on a cutting board. The item works well, but the service from Master Airscrew is terrible. The website says same or next day dispatching, and I paid a premium for day delivery. They waited 7 days to dispatch it and I ended up waiting about 10 days before receiving my item.
When I contacted them about this, I got no response. Terrible service. Your balsa stripper is simply an invaluable tool for my scratch building projects. I cannot praise your tool enough. The screws used to clamp the blade to the stripper were essentially frozen in place. I had to use a pliers to back them out; a phillips screwdriver kept slipping in the screwheads. I finally got the self-tapping screws out and worked them with a pliers enough to sink deep enough to clamp the blade.
If I had a bottoming tap of the proper size, I'd have rethreaded the plastic. My first balsa stripper also master airscrew did not have this problem at all, but was lost in our move.
My only complaint butca significant onecus your changevover to Phillips adjustment screws in place of the rasy to adjust and torque phillister head adjustment screw. Cut five perfect boards. Setup was easy and am looking forward to using in the future. Have one of these purchased many years ago, and wanted another just in case. Have used it quite a bit over the years and it is still hanging in there.
The only negative I see is the plastic material on the new ones is softer so time will tell on how well it holds up. The cutter is basically a holder for a blade. It has no measuring scale but it does the job well.
Haven't had a chance to use this tool yet, but will be using it to cut strips of mahogany edging for a scale model boat. I will report on this later. Create the first cut perpendicular to the grain only. Move the knife on the pattern, start making all other initial cuts perpendicular to the grain of the wood.
Start to cut the remaining parallel lines, to join up the other perpendicular cuts. Repeat the steps as many times as needed until the knife goes through the pattern and releases the knife. Balsa is the softest and lightest commercially available wood. This ranks only 90 to on the Janka Hardness Scale. This is a scale for wood density worldwide. You can use this scale to easily find out the hardness of the wood you are working on.
Red oak is a common domestic hardwood and ranks on the Janka scale. Cutting delicate, soft and light balsa takes special tools and a lot of patience. If you want to become a better model plane builder then you need to learn how to work with balsa especially cutting it without breaking it.
Cut The Wood. Gazebo Plans x. Facebook 0. For this particular saw you can use it as is or take the angle feature off of the saw and build a table and fence for it. I use both styles myself. With a table and fence you can set up a stop block and cut nearly identical lengths structure builders use this for cutting legs of their structures. I rarely sand towers when using this product. Maximum load is grams or 3.
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