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- Thread starter Big Dog
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rbeach84
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Big Dog, scribing bands on something like the dome part are best done using a surface gauge (I think that is what it is called...). Here is one sold by Micromark:
http://www.micromark.com/toolmakers-surface-gauge-ship-waterline-marker,7115.html
However, it can be very simple to make one. Use anything as a height 'block' that you can brace a scriber on horizontally, then just (carefully!) rotate your part against your gauge. You could also use a pencil to mark your line then use some layered up masking tape, cut into thin strips & applied to the line, as a guide for scribing. I have one of the Micromark gauges, and it is nice since the 'probe' is hardened steel so it can serve to scratch in an initial line to start the engraving. But, is it really worth the expense & having to store it when a pencil and some Lego blocks might serve your immediate needs?
But that's the idea.
R/ Robert
http://www.micromark.com/toolmakers-surface-gauge-ship-waterline-marker,7115.html
However, it can be very simple to make one. Use anything as a height 'block' that you can brace a scriber on horizontally, then just (carefully!) rotate your part against your gauge. You could also use a pencil to mark your line then use some layered up masking tape, cut into thin strips & applied to the line, as a guide for scribing. I have one of the Micromark gauges, and it is nice since the 'probe' is hardened steel so it can serve to scratch in an initial line to start the engraving. But, is it really worth the expense & having to store it when a pencil and some Lego blocks might serve your immediate needs?
But that's the idea.
R/ Robert
