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You wanna make a piece of ammo look interesting? .......cut it!
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Fuzeman
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I allways think if an item is is good to mint condition then its a crime to section
Steve
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Grenademan2005
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I think the same, but there are some items that are so rare that even in relic condition you cant use one for make a cut away.
Grenademan2005
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I personally like the cut aways, but it is a problem find one piece for cut it or find already cutted examples. My girlfriend always says that they are destroyed items, but I explain her that they are very nice items for learn how work they. I made myself the MKIIA1 cut from an old ashtray.
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Grenademan2005
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You cut ALL what you get? For me you are not criminals, as I say Id like much the cut items and always amaze me the necessary work for make one and how difficult is. You need special machinery.
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Grenademan2005
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Yes, thats would be perfect. Spotter, for do it "with your hands" your work is really fine and precise. Have you thought do it for another collectors for a price?
I seem to have started something !
I don't have any cut 37mms, partly because it is rare to find a period original, which is what I would want. If I had to make the choice of buying a cut round period or not or add another uncut example I would go for the whole item. Yet it is always interesting to see the insides. Some types are so common, the WW1 French Mle 1888 common shell for instance that cutting some would make no difference. Others are so rare it would be a sad loss. One thing, some of the recent cutaways done by members are so good that how 50 to 100 years from now will another collector know if they were say original WW2 or done 60 years later ? Does any one sign their work and date it ??
I don't have any cut 37mms, partly because it is rare to find a period original, which is what I would want. If I had to make the choice of buying a cut round period or not or add another uncut example I would go for the whole item. Yet it is always interesting to see the insides. Some types are so common, the WW1 French Mle 1888 common shell for instance that cutting some would make no difference. Others are so rare it would be a sad loss. One thing, some of the recent cutaways done by members are so good that how 50 to 100 years from now will another collector know if they were say original WW2 or done 60 years later ? Does any one sign their work and date it ??
Chris 42 RQ
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The Plague !
I always used to avoid sectioned (cut) items like the plague, however someone has convinced me otherwise !
And I will now say that they do have an important place in one's collection especially if you have a complete one also.
Cutting ammunition is a skillful job and not for the feint hearted as I am sure Spotter and others will testify.
I always used to avoid sectioned (cut) items like the plague, however someone has convinced me otherwise !
And I will now say that they do have an important place in one's collection especially if you have a complete one also.
Cutting ammunition is a skillful job and not for the feint hearted as I am sure Spotter and others will testify.
I dont have the skills or the confidence to try and cut stuff for other people,If something goes wrong when i am cutting something (which it does often) i am the only person who has lost an item,its not a risk i would be willing to take with other peoples items
I like cutaway models only because:
1- you can explain how a piece of ammo functions.
2- If you don't like the cutaway anymore you turn the cutaway side to the wall (180 degr turn) and you'll see the uninteresting side.
3- It's obvoius -even for a person that does not know about ammo- that it's fully empty/inert
4- A cutaway model is not ammo any more for the Dutch law as it is "scrapped" (I prefer to scrap it along a precise line).
5- If the law changes, making collecting more difficult, my collection of cutties is not influenced by that.
6- It is a very nice form of R&R to make cutaway models and than publish them.
1- you can explain how a piece of ammo functions.
2- If you don't like the cutaway anymore you turn the cutaway side to the wall (180 degr turn) and you'll see the uninteresting side.
3- It's obvoius -even for a person that does not know about ammo- that it's fully empty/inert
4- A cutaway model is not ammo any more for the Dutch law as it is "scrapped" (I prefer to scrap it along a precise line).
5- If the law changes, making collecting more difficult, my collection of cutties is not influenced by that.
6- It is a very nice form of R&R to make cutaway models and than publish them.
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waffenamt
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Spotter, I beg to disagree that you do not have the skills. You have done some great pieces that I have seen on several web pages. They are a great reference source. I would like to email you a pic of a fuse one day and ask for advice on how and where. Like you say, If I mess it up it is mine. It is inert, of course, the most worrisome thing when I hear of people doing there own cutaways.