latest project Mono Pod

Neat!

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Until it developed a light leak, we loved our Olympus camera. LOML is unwilling to spend money on it. Oh, well. I've still got my Pentax Spotmatic (built about the time I graduated from high school).

Re: latest project Mono Pod

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>A really primo piece of work Ernie. Ya dun guud.

Nice looking stick

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Looks good Ernie. What tools did you use to do the sprial carving?

Mono Pod Version 2

Bill Ward

>Ernie - for your next version you have to figure out how to collapse the pod to fit into your camera bag - make it telescope. Just hollow out a few sections (that's for them big long auger bits) and how about some threaded wooden nuts to clamp the sections. Get busy!!

Re: Nice looking stick

Ernie Miller

>Pretty simple I laied out the lines by wrapping a peice of paper around the stick then I used the trusty Japanese pull saw to cut a curf fallowed up with a couple carving chisels. the best one for the job was a hand made pull chisel designed by Mario Rodreguz. id just kind of slices as you go. cleaned up put on a danish oil and a couple coats of laquer. You can't really see the bottom of the stick but it tapers from four sides to eight which makes a nice little transition. It seems like I have spent about a year not making any thing but I am changing that.

Thanks Ernie. Pull Chisel?

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Care to elaborate on the hand made pull chisel? Got a pic?

Re: Thanks Ernie. Pull Chisel?

Ernie Miller

>I'll work on that picture. it is a bent square bit concreet nail that has been ground and sharpened so it cuts when it is pulled. It would work better if I had a larger nail when I made it

Re: Mono Pod Version 2

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Very nice Ernie. I sure bet you enjoy making these, and hey, making an extra $$ or two dosen't hurts either eh? :~)

I hear where Bill is coming from, but I think making them telescoping would be a major PITA(rse) so might I a suggest making them with brass fittings that would allow the monopods/staffs to be screwed together, which would also allow the user to make a shorter monopod if need be.

I look forward to seeing this pull chisel also, so don't keep us waiting long now will ya'!

Hey, you losin' weight too?

T.O.

Re: Thanks Ernie. Pull Chisel?

ernie miller

>here is a picture of the chisel it was designes by Mario Rodreguz. it is for trimming the wood between the legs of nude sculptures. It works well for other projects that requires feleting the wood away. it can be pulled or pushed it cuts on all three sides of the tip. handle is Jatoba it is next to some Buck Bro's

one more view

ernie miller

>this one might show the tip better. it is made from an old square concreet nail that was about 5" long bent and shaped rehardened and sharpened. works best woth softer woods bass & Mahogany walnut is ok but any thing harder and it isn't as good.

Thank you Ernie!

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>Yet one more item on the to do list...

Re: Thank you Ernie!

Ernie Miller

>Scott if you can bend the end and grind on a sander or grinder without over heating you won't need to reharden and aneil the steel it is pretty easy if you take your time.