Do you want to know how to make balsa wood camera?

  Balsa wood is well known for lightweight, soft and easy to work with. As we have introduced in our previous articles, balsa wood has been chosen as the ideal choice for making models and other products. For example, it can be used to make fishing floats, surfboard, air plane models and so forth. Well, do you love digital camera? Do you want to know how to make balsa wood camera? Here, we will give you a brief introduction on how to make balsa wood camera.
First of all, you will need some tools. Prepare rulers, like metal ruler, triangular ruler, metric circle template, circumference ruler and so forth. Prepare gauges, files or sand papers, cutters, and so forth.
Second, draw the picture of your expected camera on the paper. Reffering to the drawing, make layer-structure units by gluing together pieces of balsa wood of varing thickness. This will allow the dimensions in the depth direction to be understood in each layer. The lens' optical axis and film surface will be the reference points so draw lines to each position. Fit the balsa wood to each block. For thicker parts, you should glue several pieces of balsa wood together. Write in the dimensions for each of the parts and then cut them out.
Third, cut and glue. Cut a hole to insert the dummy lens mount. After cutting out the odd-shaped parts, glue them together. Glue the back-surface parts together. Assemble the parts that are substantially the same, such as viewfinder. Cut out the odd-shaped parts in advance. This is how it looks when the parts are glued to the back surface. You are advised to form the hole for the mount. Use a drill to open a hole for the jigsaw blade. Cut a hole with the jigsaw and use a sander to remove any distortion and to make the sides vertical.
Fourth, shape it. Cut along the outlines and back surface. Shape the curved surface on the side. Shave out upper portion of the camera's front surface and a projection on the bottom side of the body. Shape the surface of the pentaprism portion, the shutter release guard circumference and both shoulders of the upper portion of the camera, then create the upper portion of the eyecup. Then you should cut out the grip formation and shape the shutter pedestal. Then shape around the surface where thumb will rest. Shape the shutter button and create the pentaprism shape.
Fifth, create the finer portion. Create the lcd window and work further on the area around the buttons. Create a group of buttons on the front surface and create a group of buttons on the back surface. You can use a template to draw shape, draw the reference line on the sides and draw the positioning lines. Use a motorized tool to form the cavity of the depression R. Use a curve ruler to draw a line and to check the amount that you have cut. Creating parts use a compass, template and ruler.
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