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                        How to Make a magnifier lamp...

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                        dahut
                        • Member since
                          January 2007
                        • From: Glue and paint smeared bench, in La La Land
                        Posted by dahut on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:26 PM
                        Thanks for the tip. Optics, like audio speakers, are no place to skimp.
                        Cheers, David
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                        grizz30_06
                        • Member since
                          March 2005
                        • From: The Red Hills of South Carolina
                        Posted by grizz30_06 on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 2:18 PM

                         dahut wrote:
                        Next year I want to get one of those head magnifiers, too. If youre going to work on miniatures, it seems appropriate to use such things.

                        Of all the thing-a-ma-jigs I have the head magnifier is one that I feel naked with out.  I would suggest paying the bigger bucks for a good one.  Real glass lenses do much better.  I did get a cheap set at harbor freight because they had lights on the side.  It was a waste of 5 bucks.

                        Grizz

                        Denial, it's not just a coping mechanism, it's a way of life.
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                        dahut
                        • Member since
                          January 2007
                        • From: Glue and paint smeared bench, in La La Land
                        Posted by dahut on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:59 AM
                        Next year I want to get one of those head magnifiers, too. If youre going to work on miniatures, it seems appropriate to use such things.
                        Cheers, David
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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:55 AM
                        I wear 1.5 reading glasses and use a flexible lamp.

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        forest gump
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                          October 2006
                        • From: between the computer and workbench
                        Posted by forest gump on Monday, December 10, 2007 8:44 AM

                         GOOOD THINKING  DAHUT! Big Smile [:D]

                         

                         

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                        dahut
                        • Member since
                          January 2007
                        • From: Glue and paint smeared bench, in La La Land
                        How to Make a magnifier lamp...
                        Posted by dahut on Monday, December 10, 2007 5:31 AM

                        Literally. Santa Claus is supposedly bringing me a replacement for mine, which was broken. In the meantime, from the "Neccessity is a Mother" files...

                        Take one magnifier and one lamp, add a five gallon bucket and a Helping Hands fixture and, voila!:

                         

                        Cheers, David
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