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  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Chicago, IL
Posted by jcfay on Saturday, November 19, 2005 7:35 PM
Yup - you know, it might seem weird, but sometimes the two things do seem a little similar.  I think that's one of the reasons I got back into modeling and like it so much.  Great to work with the hands, but with models its nice because you can work at your own pace, not at the obscene pace that many MDs try and work at these days in order to see a certain number of patients per hour.  Personally, I bailed out of clinical medicine for that very reason.  Also, there just wasn't enough time left for modeling!  Have a good one!  Big Smile [:D]
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  • From: Greencastle, IN
Posted by eizzle on Saturday, November 19, 2005 9:37 AM

 jcfay wrote:
I'm gonna have to ask for some but I KNOW I'm gonna get the wierdest look from my dentist when I do.  What the heck!  I'll make sure to give 'em a good wash first...  On this same note, as an M.D. I have a few surgical tools that I initially used to practice suturing that are now model tools.  Forceps, clamps, hemostats, scalpels, etc.  All great for models - the one exception perhaps being a scalpel because they are so darn sharp one slip and oh no there goes a digit Big Smile [:D]

So, do you ever find your self feeling like the person you are working on in a stressful situation is more like a model than a pateint? I mean "Hey Doc, why did you just say my rear stabilizer flap was broken and we would have to get some plastic glue to fix that one"?Big Smile [:D]

Colin

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    November 2005
  • From: Chicago, IL
Posted by jcfay on Saturday, November 19, 2005 9:00 AM
Everytime I see this link it also reminds me that I need to go to the dentist.  I hate the friggin dentist.  Nothing personal.  At least now I have some incentive to go!  Maybe I'll leave with less teeth and more fillings but plus a couple of potential tools Clown [:o)]
  • Member since
    May 2005
  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Friday, November 18, 2005 6:00 PM
My dentist is going to swap me some for a finished model for the kid's room. Now I actually have to finish a kit!

So long folks!

  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Grass Valley, CA
Posted by seaphoto on Friday, November 18, 2005 5:49 PM

Dental Tools can be the raw material of even better tools.  I took one that had a blob of metal on t he end - not sure what they use it for, pretty sure I don't want to know - and using a Dremel Wheel, shaped it into a right angle scraper for getting crisp inside edges where paint tends to build up.  You just drag and scrape the tool in the corner, and the radius of paint or glue is shaved out.

Use your imagination a bit, making tools is sometimes more fun than building models LOL

 

Kurt

 

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  • Member since
    January 2004
  • From: Philomath, OR, USA
Posted by knight667 on Friday, November 18, 2005 3:10 PM
My dental hygenist knows I'm a modeler, so she was prepared when I asked. :)
John "The only easy day was yesterday." - US Navy SEALs "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." - US Marine Corp. "I live each day/Like it's my last/...I never look back" - from "I'm A Rocker" by Judas Priest
  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Chicago, IL
Posted by jcfay on Friday, November 18, 2005 2:23 PM
I'm gonna have to ask for some but I KNOW I'm gonna get the wierdest look from my dentist when I do.  What the heck!  I'll make sure to give 'em a good wash first...  On this same note, as an M.D. I have a few surgical tools that I initially used to practice suturing that are now model tools.  Forceps, clamps, hemostats, scalpels, etc.  All great for models - the one exception perhaps being a scalpel because they are so darn sharp one slip and oh no there goes a digit Big Smile [:D]
  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Saratoga Springs, NY
Posted by Jeeves on Friday, November 18, 2005 11:23 AM
Agreed-- that are handy!  My wife is a dental hygienist so I get an unlimited supply of these Big Smile [:D]
Mike
  • Member since
    January 2004
  • From: Philomath, OR, USA
New tools
Posted by knight667 on Thursday, November 17, 2005 5:49 PM
Just picked up 4 tools from my dentist.  Yup, that's right.  I asked after I had my teeth cleaned last week, and the hygenist gave me some of their old tools that they can't retip, so they basically just throw them away.  Yay!  Not sure what I'll do with them, but panel scribing came to mind, since (as we all know) those buggers are sharp!
John "The only easy day was yesterday." - US Navy SEALs "Improvise. Adapt. Overcome." - US Marine Corp. "I live each day/Like it's my last/...I never look back" - from "I'm A Rocker" by Judas Priest
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