Jaws Quints Harpoon gun

[flimzy]

I don't think the plastidip will work as it only leave a thin coat and the handle are 16mm 5/8 thick around a 8mm 5/16 steel bar. I tossed the idea around at work today and the consensus was its a special bending jig. so Unless anything springs to mind I'm going to case it in Onyx over a greased handle so it will still spin. not ideal but I need to move on. I made a jig for bending the handles that works way better than I was expecting.

 

[flimzy]

I’m casting it although not perfect and I don’t think the real handle was cast, it came out ok

 

[joberg]

Works for me from where I stand flimzy

 

[flimzy]

Pop quiz any one work it out?

 

[GrenadeKing]

Looks like a rope winding jig.

Your solutions to some of these puzzles are absolutely genius. Very inspiring.

 

[flimzy]

 

[flimzy]

Ok you got that one no clues this time

 

[DCN]

Ok you got that one no clues this timeView attachment 1873409

Bending the handle, another cool jig.

 

[flimzy]

Not quite but close.

 

[DCN]

Not quite but close.View attachment 1873427

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I see I see now. Those things make me laugh, it's a time period thing. Back in the 60's and 70's you could buy those at the hardware store, they were garden stakes. (under breath............we still have one outside marking the oil tank fill) Only difference is those stakes have a threaded end to accept the brush.

 

[flimzy]

This had been lots in the post but it turned up today. With a few hole and some engraving its just the part

 

[DCN]

Here comes some of my Sarcasm,......As Roy Rogers once said, "Where's Trigger"? I'll go sit in the corner now........

 

[joberg]

Very intensive/extensive work flimzy But the results are out of this world

 

[flimzy]

I think the tiny bit of graphics you can just see as quint opens the box isn’t the oil can but a webley rust prevention oil box.

 

[flimzy]

 

[GrenadeKing]

I've been looking for the fonts on the front cover of the booklet for the last few days. I must confess, I thought they wouldn't be hard to find and I have been proven very wrong.

They may all be unique to mid 1900's England or have been lost in the shift to digital type. Case in point, I was able to narrow down the bottom section to some variant of Garamond. The problem is that Garamond is around 500 years old and has been recreated, copied, varied, mistaken for other works, is similar to other works, has inspired other works, etc. and so forth and so on until the present.

Whatever this was, has a features that I haven't been able to find in a single font.

That said, these two anachronistic "modern" fonts seem to be pretty close. I just threw this together over a few minutes, with more time I could get everything more lined up.



For the other fonts on cover, if it were me, I'd probably just trace over what's there in illustrator and clean it up.

As you've said flimzy, sometimes you just have to move on.

 

[flimzy]

I've been looking for the fonts on the front cover of the booklet for the last few days. I must confess, I thought they wouldn't be hard to find and I have been proven very wrong.

They may all be unique to mid 1900's England or have been lost in the shift to digital type. Case in point, I was able to narrow down the bottom section to some variant of Garamond. The problem is that Garamond is around 500 years old and has been recreated, copied, varied, mistaken for other works, is similar to other works, has inspired other works, etc. and so forth and so on until the present.

Whatever this was, has a features that I haven't been able to find in a single font.

That said, these two anachronistic "modern" fonts seem to be pretty close. I just threw this together over a few minutes, with more time I could get everything more lined up.

View attachment 1873972

For the other fonts on cover, if it were me, I'd probably just trace over what's there in illustrator and clean it up.

As you've said flimzy, sometimes you just have to move on.

Very much appreciated your effort. PM me your address and I'll send you one of them when there finished.

 

[GrenadeKing]

Very much appreciated your effort. PM me your address and I'll send you one of them when there finished.

I'm glad to help and I would be honored. Thank you.

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I noticed this as well, the text inside seems to be the same font as the one on the cover with the exception of the page on the right. That page, and the captions of most of the photos seem to be Times.

 

[flimzy]

I have to admire the improvement the invention of 3D printing has brought to making. When I bought a resin printer I thought I would have no need of the FDM anymore. But they are great for jigs (and other thing I’m not knocking them)
Back in the late 80s when I started everything was manual, apart for the odd machine with a DRO but now you can think about a job in a hole different way.
Drill jig

 

[joberg]

You're right, it's another tool in your tool box