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Re: Rats! a week too late
By:Grant Goltz
Date: 2/11/2001, 8:20 pm
In Response To: making lead ducks *Pic* (Ron Hagedorn)

: Harking back to my naval architecture days, I decided that I needed more than
: my meager stash of 5 lead ducks. However I wasn't very excited about
: making molds or melting lead, so I came up with the attached scheme for
: making some decent wood subsitutes.

Well, I just last week bandsawed some 3 piece molds out of oak, screwed them together and melted up a bunch of lead and poured. Oh well, mine don't look so nice, but they work.

Grant

Messages In This Thread

making lead ducks *Pic*
Ron Hagedorn -- 2/11/2001, 1:41 pm
Re: Beats ducking lead
Geo. Cushing -- 2/12/2001, 2:27 pm
OT-KeyCad
Don B. -- 2/13/2001, 1:38 pm
Re: OT-KeyCad
Geo. Cushing -- 2/14/2001, 11:51 am
Re: OT-KeyCad
Richard Boyle -- 2/15/2001, 8:52 pm
Re: OT-KeyCad/GRIP-LINER
Ron Hagedorn -- 2/14/2001, 2:39 pm
Re: GRIP-LINER under my nose
Geo. Cushing -- 2/15/2001, 7:40 pm
OK, I'll Bite....Whats a Duck? *NM*
Dwight -- 2/11/2001, 10:39 pm
Re: OK, I'll Bite....Whats a Duck?
Ron Hagedorn -- 2/12/2001, 12:39 am
Re: Rats! a week too late
Grant Goltz -- 2/11/2001, 8:20 pm
Great photo in your profile Grant! *NM*
Dwight -- 2/11/2001, 10:58 pm
How Many in a Set?
Pete Roszyk -- 2/11/2001, 4:03 pm
Re: How Many in a Set?
bob -- 2/12/2001, 8:13 pm