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Well the Dollar Tree meat trays I use have changed. They give you less trays and less quality foam and charging more for it. Go figure. Anyway my Cricut Maker was making a mess of the cuts. So I bought some Hefty brand foam trays. The foam is thinner, about 1/16 and denser because the parts come...

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https://micromark.com/products/thin-beam-square-1?_pos=1&_sid=b7a704b7d&_ss=r

I have found the thin beam squares from Micro Mark really useful. I have used them for marking and cutting balsa (any thing over 1/16") for years. They work well on even thinner material e.g. 1/32" if you have a sacrificial...

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Got a new / old hand tool you'd like to recommend to the parish?

I'll start. A Swann-Morton B3 handle. Takes 10a, 11a etc.

Recommended to me by an ex-surgeon on another forum. Good for curve cutting as you can rotate the blade more easily than the standard No. 3 S-M handle and, unlike an X-Acto handle, it doesn't roll away when you put it down. Read More

Mrs JMK gave me a 3D printer for Christmas and I have been playing with it and making things to help me to make better planes.

Here are some things I have made and used:

• wing and tail rib templates
• various sizes of squares to hold things at 90* to the building board
• a prop to set a rib at the right angle

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