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Frank,
I was looking at your pictures and
found it to be interesting that at first look I thought I was looking at your
little test model. Then I noticed your test model framed center through one of
the full sized viewport holes. Nice touch. I notice how nice of bevel
you have on your two heads the collar piece. How did you have that
cut? For flat pieces that I will leave as is or later roll I figured I
would use my relatives little track rolling machine that we attach his
oxyacetylene torch to and set the drive speed according to thickness. Also
a local steel supplier just acquired an really powerful laser cutting machine
that might be able to cut nice bevels fast and smooth. I can easily produce the
DXF or DWG 2D drawing files they need to cut my parts, so it's faster for me. I
could grind them by hand, but since most of use know how much fun that is, and I
need them cut anyways, I might as well have it done all in one cut. As for
your heads, I though they would of likely been cut at the factory using some
sort of device that holds the heads and then spins them through a cutter like
plasma or oxyacetylene. But they look really smooth, much like I see in some
wire EDM cuts or aqua jet cuts.
Regards,
Brent
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