What's on your workbench? (no Star Wars, Marvel or DC stuff)

Finally finished the last details of my headphone amp. This has been functional for a while but I’ve not wanted to be without it to finish it up…

Anyway, added the face plate logo as well as the bi-color (actually it’s a tri-color but I only use two) LED so green indicates power on and red indicates a fault on the amplifier devices.
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Doing a main bearing overhaul for a Micro BL-91 yesterday:
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Disassembled.

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Ultrasonic parts cleaning.

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Thrust plate wear.

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Base plate cleaned.

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Base plate and thrust plate lapped.

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Spindle before superfinish.

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And after.

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Polymer thrust ball to replace the steel one.

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Back together with new synthetic oil to replace the original leaded oil.

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Signed and sealed. Delivery on Monday.
 
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I was able to carve out some time, over the course of a busy weekend, to start a Delta Communicator / Paul Allen Communicator build. I’m about 90% completed with the build, which is intended to capture the current weathered and set-worn look of the original—warts and all. Only a few more parts and weathering techniques to apply and this one will be completed (more photos to come)…

Here is the original.

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And pics of the progress on my build, so far…

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I'm working on this, a bit bigger than the table under it. It's a full size Aliens (AvP)) queen crown casting and paint test panel originally made by Studio ADI. I am repairing and finishing it to be a very large wall art piece for my collection.

Posting link so as to not flood this thread with pics.
 
What you have now looks like resin. Did you print those. I never thought about wood. I I guess it could be carved.
Oh did you ever see the Cylon swords was a borrowed prop left over from Lost in Space from the 60s? I have picture on set with here somewhere.
 
Yes, I've seen it. Thanks for posting the pics!
You can check out my research thread here:

Because most of the props used in Lost In space were left over from the movie, Cleopatra, more than likely, that's where the sword came from.
I have yet to re-watch Cleopatra to find the prop, however. :p
 
a Marco Enterprise ST VI Klingon Disruptor kit I purchased when he was clearing out stock a couple of years back. It was missing the front Emitter Hood and Emitter, so I had to have them 3D printed, Almost finished and ready to add to my Klingon Armory. Not toally accurate to the screen version but close enough for me.

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