Doc Nelson's house

[Sawdust]

I only order once in awhile to stay on their mailing list. Your right their back order stinks. I ordered several semi truck cabs for building coal beds on them later because they were so cheap. Our LHS store usually will give me 20% less than W but not this time because of the sale. I won't order anymore from them.

[ak-milw]

Jim,
I layout the openings in pencil then drill 1/32 holes in each corner. I cut them out with a #11 exacto blade. I also have some #11 blades with saw teeth on them for bigger openings.
I never have had a problem doing it this way so I just stick with it!!
The holes in the angle piece is so it can be bolted to an angle plate. I used to be a tool and die maker/prototype machine builder in a past life so I still have all the tools from it,Heance the granite surface plate, steel blocks and tools.

[Sawdust]

I figured the angle piece had another life somewhere but I was hoping you had a jig or something that I have never seen before & could copy.
You know scratch builders are always trying to find better ways to do something with what they have or have seen.

[ak-milw]

Anymore I just leave it clamped to the surface plate. I use it for gluing parts 90 degrees.

[Bob]

Fun to watch, Andy! You are the Scratch-Master and we are your students!

[ak-milw]

Bob, I guess it all depends on what I scratch!!

I layout all the openings and drilled out the corners. Also the backs are covered in masking tape to prevent splitting.



I will cut them out tomorrow, kinda late tonite.

[ak-milw]

I got all the openings cutout,



now to start bracing.

[Sawdust]

Andy I like your piece of granite for a builders plate. I got a 6" metal square glued to the bottom corner of a piece of glass that I use when I need it. I have thrown so many sink cutouts away but have never used them because they are so heavy & too small. I had a good one from one of my kitchen jobs that I was saving but the home owner saw it & wanted to keep it. I am thinking about taking a piece of plywood & making a new builders plate with removable inserts for squaring & cutting against a mat. This would also have places to put tools around the edges. Out of all the tools I have the most common are only a few that stay on the table & very seldom get put away. Another shelf project. Got carried away a little by the way your cut outs look great. Your doctors office makes me want to build mine, since it's a brick building it will have to be done with plastic. I have to get in the mood for that.

[ak-milw]

Jim,
I love this surface plate for model building, it's .00005 perfectly flat and it's very heavy, will not move if bumped. A little alcohol on a rag, one wipe and it is clean and nothing will stick to it. Only thing is it cost me $400 twenty years ago.

[ak-milw]

All the bracing is in place using 3/16 square stock.



Now to the paint shop, the house was and still is white with black trim.