PDIB's Making MODs!

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turbocad6

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If you want one that bad just email Craig. I emailed him a couple o weeks ago to post bigger blocks :D

yeah, he'll post bigger sizes for auction but I don't think he'll sell off auction.


$128 for a piece 5 1/4" x 3 3/8" x 1 5/8"... are you on crack? I'll MAKE you a piece like that for $128...

gg I've looked at so many blocks and only a very few really do it for me, that piece was ideal, one of the best I've ever seen. it might take me months to find the right size and right look and stabilized again, you can't just make one like that :)
 

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yeah, he'll post bigger sizes for auction but I don't think he'll sell off auction.

gg I've looked at so many blocks and only a very few really do it for me, that piece was ideal, one of the best I've ever seen. it might take me months to find the right size and right look and stabilized again, you can't just make one like that :)

Okies... well.... that was a lovely piece, but paying that much when you can see visible holes, and you don't know how solid it is inside is a bit expensive:).
 
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When you cold work a metal you are introducing defects in it. Defects allow the material to deform by moving around. But defects tend to "repel" each other so that when the density gets high enough they "lock" each other in place. This means it will take much more force to move them past each other and so the material is harder. Heating allows defects to move without introducing more. Certain types of defects can combine with others and annihilate. These types actually attract each other because the energy of a perfect crystal is lower. By heating the crystal you are allowing the defects to rearrange and find their complementary other defects and dissappear. Incidentally the reason carbon makes steel hard is because it is a small atom and can travel through the iron crystal to the defect sites. The carbon collects around the defects and pins them there. In order for the defect to move it has to drag all the carbon atoms through the crystal too which takes much more force, hence a harder metal.
 

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I know very little about working with wood, so pardon me if this was explained before. What is involved in the finishing process of these Dibis? Is there some sort of protective coating applied to the mod after the sanding and smoothing process?

He soaks them in toxic fast drying chemicals that will stick your fingers together for a good long time if you aren't careful... :shock:

AKA: Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue)
 
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LMAO!!! You guys and your wood thoughts... definitely reminds me that when a university did a study on how often men thought about sex, men think about it 19x a day. Every day! What the heck...

Women think about much more practical things. Like shoes.

Those men they surveyed must have been monks ;)hmy


Master of Bassets...and not much else.

EDIT: pdib beat me to it :)
 

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He soaks them in toxic fast drying chemicals that will stick your fingers together for a good long time if you aren't careful... :shock:

AKA: Cyanoacrylate (Super Glue)

Thanks! Interesting use of Cyanoacrylate. That finish must be rock hard. Apart from the fumes it gives off before setting, it isn't really toxic isn't it?
 

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Thanks! Interesting use of Cyanoacrylate. That finish must be rock hard. Apart from the fumes it gives off before setting, it isn't really toxic isn't it?

I wouldn't think so, unless you are chewing on your wood :p


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Several years ago in a previous house our neighbor behind us, that we never saw had foil over his rear windows. I never paid it much attention.

One evening just before dark I put up a dish and of course his house was slightly to the southwest of ours. A couple of hours after I was done the dogs went nuts. So I went out to check what got them going. Cops were in my back yard and his trying to explain to him that I was not trying cook his brain with my microwave ray gun. Never saw the guy again and he sold the house a few months later.

See? S o m e b o d y cooked his brain! THEY're out there! Of course, once you feel the dire need for tinfoil, it's too late - THEY got you.
 
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