alexideways Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=014&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=330076046016&rd=1&rd=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big-phil Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 For $.01, sure why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexideways Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 For $.01, sure why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pop N Wood Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 WTF is that thing? Razors and rubber erasers? I guess you press it down on a piece of cardboard to cut circular guage faces? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I haven't seen too many dies, but I have a friend who was making them for a living for a while, and that's pretty much what they look like. He didn't use erasers, I think he set his cutters deeper into the wood and used the wood as the stop. He was getting big bucks for die making, I think it was $100/hr. Takes a smart person to figure out how to cut the cardboard to fold up into a box with tabs and little holders for different parts that go in the box. Not sure how smart you need to be to cut round dial faces... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexideways Posted January 17, 2007 Author Share Posted January 17, 2007 I wonder if it could be used for the indyglow faces for the stock gauges? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario_82_ZXT Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I wonder if it could be used for the indyglow faces for the stock gauges? Hmm... yea. I wonder how you hook up EL sheet and if you can cut it. If you can then you just have to put a vynil gauge print over it and there you go, reverse glow gauges for the cheap! Mario Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Careless Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 I haven't seen too many dies, but I have a friend who was making them for a living for a while, and that's pretty much what they look like. He didn't use erasers, I think he set his cutters deeper into the wood and used the wood as the stop. He was getting big bucks for die making, I think it was $100/hr. Takes a smart person to figure out how to cut the cardboard to fold up into a box with tabs and little holders for different parts that go in the box. Not sure how smart you need to be to cut round dial faces... sometimes the planning of the box features are the designers job too, which makes it hard when you have to pay 100 an hour to someone for "testing" their first design, and second, and third.. (they try to get it wrong and charge you for it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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