My N-1R build log

TD ABUSER wrote:
Roddie at today's prices what you got there is about $200 worth of tri stock.
I'll just offer you $100 for the whole shebang.....

I'm sure that we can work something out Charles.

TD ABUSER wrote:
Roddie at today's prices what you got there is about $200 worth of tri stock.
I'll just offer you $100 for the whole shebang.....

Just curious… Is that kind of stock commonly used for some specific purpose? I made some loudspeaker cabinets out of birch plywood, ended up with similar off-cuts (which I mostly tossed, as I had no use for them and already have way too much off-cuts or scrap pieces ).

A lot of times one ends up with long 2-3” wide strips of plywood, would be easy to cut them into tri strips with a table saw.

Oh, and @roddie, this is going to bee a really next-level cool model! The ”real” fighters in the movie did kinda sound like twin Bees too

KariFS wrote:

TD ABUSER wrote:
Roddie at today's prices what you got there is about $200 worth of tri stock.
I'll just offer you $100 for the whole shebang.....

Just curious… Is that kind of stock commonly used for some specific purpose? I made some loudspeaker cabinets out of birch plywood, ended up with similar off-cuts (which I mostly tossed, as I had no use for them and already have way too much off-cuts or scrap pieces ).

A lot of times one ends up with long 2-3” wide strips of plywood, would be easy to cut them into tri strips with a table saw.

Oh, and @roddie, this is going to bee a really next-level cool model! The ”real” fighters in the movie did kinda sound like twin Bees too

Hi Kari, These triangular cut-offs came from exactly the same as yours; production-runs of Baltic Birch speaker-cabinets/enclosures by my last employer. I mostly saved the cut-offs for making gussets.. but using two pieces; they could also be glued-together to form "square-stock" for a spar..  

The pieces are 28 inches long.. but were cut from panels having "dados" on both ends.. so there's approx. 26 inches of length that's consistent.

Both ends have these dado-cuts.. which I generally cut-off and discard.



Setting-up a table-saw principally to make these in quantity... wouldn't be an easy thing to do. These are "cut-offs" that all came from dimensionally-identical (exactly..) panels which were initially cut on a CNC router. The table-saw operator would save them for me every time that he would setup for that particular job-operation.

I too have WAY too much in the way of scrap-wood..   but it's "hard to discard".. when I think about how many times I've been able to utilize pieces.. rather than having to purchase something.

Take this current project for example; which is using scrap materials almost entirely. Thanks for the compliment on it Kari! The model is being built with the hopes that it will achieve ground-effect flight.. with some degree of pitch-control via my FlexEL control-surface concept. I've invested less than $5 (USD) in a pair of plastic spinners for the engines. If I get into trouble and go "nose-in"...     the spinners will provide a "crumple-zone" which could prevent damage to engines.

Today I'll be working on that actually. It will join to the central-structure "extension".. which sort-of creates a horseshoe-crab/tadpole look.

Yes, the Naboo vessels have a kind of ”organic” look to them, I thought of stingrays, but a tadpole bears a resemblance too I was wondering if this kind of a model could be built as a ”flying wing”, like combat models, the ”tail” would not do much anyway.

When I saw the heading of the Tatone muffler discussion, I thought it was about another Star Wars model. But Luke’s home planet was Tatooine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatooine

Now that you mentioned it, I do remember the loudspeaker thing, what kind of speakers do they make? Here are mine, made them kinda ”outrageous” on purpose and just for the fun of it. A bit of a vintage look and all that. Inexpensive 12” PA fullrange drivers for the mains, and a second-hand 15” woofer in the middle. Cabs are 3/4” birch ply, the sub box has a lot of internal reinforcement.



Building this system including the amps and rebuilding/modding the turntable etc is the biggest reason for my modeling hiatus. A lot of renovation on the house too, but my ”me-time” has mostly been spent on this stuff.

Yes.. You've been MIA.. but that's OK.. It's much better to get stuff done. The forum is both a catalyst and a deterrent for me.. when it comes to my model building.

I like your speakers/cabs! I assume that you've got some serious vibration-damping for that turntable!

"Fulcrum Acoustic" is the company that I recently retired from.. (Feb. 2023) after just short of 5 years. My younger brother "Andy" is upper management there. Fulcrum Loudspeakers can be found worldwide in a variety of settings from arenas to houses of worship.

Fulcrum Products weblink

Here's where I worked.. running the CNC router. A vacuum system allows one man to lift the plywood sheets over onto the CNC machine's bed.















Since I retired.. the company has experienced exponentially huge growth.

Horseshoe Crab roddie?

Nice Kari. Ah, Vacuum tubes. Brings back memories of analog computers, dynamic chambers, and very heavy power supplies.

15.625" wide X 29.0" long..