The previous post dealt with using the Router table to spin cut the body disk sections. The straight line parts are much easier, as you simply score them and snap them off. One word of warning here; you should leave a waste gap of a cm or slightly more of plastic around the area you want to use…if you try and snap off a 5mm piece of scrap at the end, it will generally just shatter rather than allowing you to flex snap it off. This then requires a bit of work with your knife to smooth it all off, and is an unnecessary pain.
So after about 6 hours of work, I now have all of the pieces cut out for the body. Now all I have to do is give them a light wash to remove the residue of the paper adhesive (easy) and start assembling them. I tried to adhere two scrap pieces together, to see how long it would take to catch and hold itself in place, etc, but found out that the needle applicator I bought is evidently blocked, as nothing is coming out, not even air. Sigh, I’ll have to return it and get another one tomorrow.
About a third of the way through the body frame parts.
Oh, and a HUGE warning, which seems bleeding obvious, but must be said for completeness. When you are starting to wind down, getting to the end of the cutting for the day, that is the time you are most at risk of making a mistake and hurting yourself (or your droid). The final cut of several hundred I had made today, the LAST BLOODY ONE, I managed to slip off my steel rule guide and slice open my finger. I think the fact that my blade was a little dulled from running along the ruler is all that saved me from a pretty nasty cut…as it is, I ended up with a 2mm deep 10mm long one, that bled LIKE HELL. A useful object lesson, but please be careful, folks, as the tools we are using can seriously screw you up if used incorrectly.
Utter utter utter-utter-utter bastard.
