VR Wood Mods bottom feeders kiwi style

[Loopy1224]

Loopy that is a gorgeous piece of wood you found, I feel like i'm looking in to an inferno, absolutely beautiful.

Thanks Splat.....Yours is coming along nicely too. Hope mine turns out as good.

 

[Splatnext]

Now you're all making me fret about a block of wood

I was merrily planning on letting vkiwi show me what he has available of the NZ timbers when the time comes, and taking it from there

o_o

Sojat I wouldn't fret, Element is right Vaughan has some incredible lumber and I will still get a mod made all of New Zealand native wood.I kind of broke my own resolve but I know that I will get back in line and get it.

It was pretty hard and I had to look for a while to find something that still reminded me of nature, some of the wood that I sah was just to garish for my taste.

 

[BobC]

The beautiful mod on its way to me was Vaughn's, and I'm as happy as a Pig in you-know-what

 

[sjoat]

Totally. I would love native NZ wood actually

My taste is usually minimal, but some of these exotic wood pics that people are posting are so awesome. They're like microcosms of far-away galaxies

 

[inswva]

On the list!

1 RobbieVape
2 houndb
3supertrunker
4 LittleBird
5 Loopy
6 Clark F
7 Klav
8 suspect k
9 nboprc
10 inspects
11 Splatnext
12 deldenk
13 Les
14 majic cloud
15 inspects
16 Loopy
17 distortoblotto
18 nautilusfan
19 GillTheGrunt
20 Cadman
21 Doffy
22 coaldriller
23 jazzvaper
24 nautilusfan
25 Clark F
26 penguiness
27 anonymous tripp
28 NatGasMan
29 sjoat
30 fatboylim
31. RobbieVape
32. supertrunker
33.distortoblotto
34. LittleBird
35 Kingdal
36 inswva

 

[vkiwi]

Any other differences besides speed of curing with the new material?

Moisture and heat resistance are much the same as with epoxies, and the thicker variants have gap filling properties as well, unlike the cheap n nasty 'super glue' varieties. The CA glue is a synthetic resin as with epoxy, but uses the subtrate's moisture as it's catalyst instead of a two part chemical reaction. interesting stuff....

 

[BobC]

Same hardness?

 

[vkiwi]

Same hardness?

I cant quote figures against epoxies, but it is extremely hard, with a tensile strength of up to 4000psi apparently...

 

[vkiwi]

What are the different materials that have been used for the caps to date? Besides horn, bone, wood <-- (sexual connotations abound. also i'm childish)

The wood in the body is organic enough for me personally, not sure if I'd fancy having horn or bone for the caps

Could an option be, say, some kinda acetal plastic or resin. @vkiwi? How bad an idea is that

Not a bad idea at all, I would have to throw some research at it.... sure there are options though, like some of the acrylics the pen guys use. comes in all colours too...

 

[BobC]

cool, thanks

 

[vkiwi]

Not a bad idea at all, I would have to throw some research at it.... sure there are options though, like some of the acrylics the pen guys use. comes in all colours too...

I could make whole mods from this stuff

 

[Doffy]

that acrylic is mighty nice. Will have to consider that

Did my wood turn up vaughan? I didn't put much of a note in there, just "Doffy-ecf"

 

[vkiwi]

that acrylic is mighty nice. Will have to consider that

Did my wood turn up vaughan? I didn't put much of a note in there, just "Doffy-ecf"

Yep, been looking at it. Ill pm

 

[Splatnext]

I could make whole mods from this stuff View attachment 486741 View attachment 486742

I own some fantastic drip tips made out of that stuff.

 

[BobC]

Oh oh, the dreaded wood review PM

 

[Doffy]

Oh oh, the dreaded wood review PM

yeah, lol

rejected

 

[BobC]

Oh sh..t, I also had to re-think my wood placement, What happened?

 

[Doffy]

Oh sh..t, What happened?

Too chalky apparently

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[BobC]

That's why I said 'dreaded' I got one, and I had to move from the lighter end of the wood to the darker end, too many bark intrusions

 

[jazzvaper]

Too chalky apparently

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