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giant Malaysian shield mantis
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~Harrisheart Jan 4, 2013
These are amazing. It's been some time and I'd forgotten the natural beauty of a mantis - thank you for reminding me! I have to wonder after seeing the soldier ant and the stag beetle(also very awesome, especially the beetle) - have you ever made an arachnid?
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~geoffhaber Jan 5, 2013  Professional Artisan Crafter
Thanks, never have tried an arachnid, I am not very fond of them.
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*HollieBollie Dec 10, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
very cool and beautiful, I'd love to have one of my own, I love manti
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*Arttomic Nov 29, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
are these sculpts articulate as well?
blows me away how you manage to create such fine hinges, trying to do the holes must be hard?
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~geoffhaber Nov 29, 2012  Professional Artisan Crafter
The holes are easy, it's cutting the slots and filing the tongues to fit which is hard. The slots are only 1& 1/2 mm wide on average and sometimes as narrow as 3/4 mm.
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*Arttomic Nov 30, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Interesting, Brass is so soft I'd be afraid to drill the holes for fear of blowing out the sides, do you use a dremel tool on a drill press attachment?
Half a mill is very small indeed, the files you have must be very fine to do that.
How do you keep your files from clogging up, I filed brass a few times, and found it plugs them up quickly
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~geoffhaber Nov 30, 2012  Professional Artisan Crafter
I don't know what kind of brass you used, my files don't clog with it, copper, maybe, it's a sticky metal. 360 brass bar stock is a perfectly clean cutting metal even when it is annealed. I use a fine brass wire bench brush to clean the files, they do accumulate dirt after a while from oils from my hands and if there happens to be a stubborn area I use a fine sewing needle to clean the cutters. I have a Unimat which is set up as my permanent precision drill press, has a precision 1/4 inch chuck which can handle drills as small as no. 80.
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*Arttomic Dec 1, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Not sure the type of brass, was just a left over off cut of some rod stock form a panic bar style door opener for an older commercial outside steel entry door for a school. I would assume the grade would not be very high. yes
Copper is nasty to file, done that to!
Ah a brush, same thing then, ok thought maybe there was some better method out there that you use.
sewing needle is a great idea!!!
Didn't know what a unimat was, looked it up, so a lathe/combination press then? nice
Thanks for all the info, Hope I'm not driving you to crazy with all the question! just a curious sort by nature.
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~geoffhaber Dec 1, 2012  Professional Artisan Crafter
No problem, if we weren't curious we would never learn anything or develop.
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*Arttomic Dec 1, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
very true
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