That looks great Wilton. I am inspired to get back to work on my keys.
Randy
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Here's a photo of the key top
] Wood key tops
Never did find that B-52 in the lake http://wikimapia.org/151809/ but
apparently there is not much left to see, did find a little park where
the NVA left a pile of anti aircraft weapons and guidance radars and
such. Apparently the B-52 in the lake was shot down in Dec 72
Here's a photo of the key top focused significantly better but sill not
perfect.
Wilton
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:55:07 -0500 wilton strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Here's a photo of the key top focused significantly better but sill not
perfect.
The key looks really nice. What type of wood did you use?
Craig
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What caught my eye was the colour of your dash. Is the whole interior that
colour? I don't recall seeing one like that before.
Ed
300E
On 02/03/2008, Craig McCluskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:55:07 -0500 wilton strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Here's a photo of
Craig, the wood key top is black walnut.
Ed, the dash is the usual black. The under-dash, console, upholstery, etc.,
is burgundy MB tex. Exterior is arctic white. The car is a
near-showroom-condition 87 300D (124), 106 kmi
Wilton
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Thanks Wilton, sounds like a nice colour combo. Nice to hear how you keep
it too.
Ed
300E
337,200 kms.
On 02/03/2008, wilton strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig, the wood key top is black walnut.
Ed, the dash is the usual black. The under-dash, console, upholstery,
etc.,
is
Never did find that B-52 in the lake http://wikimapia.org/151809/ but
apparently there is not much left to see, did find a little park where
the NVA left a pile of anti aircraft weapons and guidance radars and
such. Apparently the B-52 in the lake was shot down in Dec 72.
Thankfully I have
What sort of camera are you using, I take it is a digital one. Some of
the early model digital cameras are really hard to get into focus.
Close ups are a real pain with a budget digital, however spending 1000's
on a fancy digital is also a pain, specially if they get stolen.
Anyway I was only
Hendrik, the camera is my wife's Canon S-410. I've never used it before
'cause my tremor has been so bad for several years 'til recently that I
couldn't even HOLD it, much less use it. 'Gonna try it again 'cause it does
worry me to have sent out-of-focus photos to such a fine bunch of Mercedes
wilton strickland wrote:
'Gonna try it again 'cause it does worry me to have sent out-of-focus
photos to such a fine bunch of Mercedes aficionado perfectionists.
If you have the instruction manual, look for a macro mode.
Some cameras just won't go closer than 3-5 feet, in which case you're
wilton strickland wrote:
'Think I'll back off from the subject next time so the autofocus can
do its work.
You might want to look into a 'macro' mode for the camera. It should
allow you to focus on things that are inches from the camera lens.
John
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The S-410 does have macro mode, and should focus down to 1.5' even
when not in macro.
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2004_reviews/s410.html
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Hey Wilton - would you care to comment further on how you made the wooden key
tops? I have been toying with the
idea of doing the same.
Essentially, so far, I have routed out half depth in each side wooden piece
with a dremel and planned to glue the
two pieces of wood together. Initially I
Thanks to several for the camera ops tips - macro, etc. 'Just took more
photos - 'thought I'd crop as necessary. BTW, as usual, when all else
fails, check the manual.
Wilton
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Yeah, I'm very disappointed (and embarrassed) with the focus of the
photos.
Evidently, I was too close for aotofocus to handle it. Yes, my
Don't need to spilt the blank and glue it together around the key.
I started with a blank slightly bigger and thicker, of course, than finished
top. 'Started with thickness about 5/16 inch. I filed off some excess on
each side of the key top itself to square-up the wings and to slightly
reduce
29, 2008 1:46 PM
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Subject: [MBZ] Wood key tops
Don't need to spilt the blank and glue it together around the key.
I started with a blank slightly bigger and thicker, of course, than finished
top. 'Started with thickness about 5/16 inch. I filed off some excess on
each side
BTW, when I wrote, I filed each end of the wings on the key to reduce
width of the required slot, I meant the wings on top part of the metal
key itself.
Wilton
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Hendrik, we lost 2% or 15 of the 750 B-52 sorties in the Hanoi area during
those 11 nights of Dec 72, when we finally fought that war as it should have
been many years before (if we were going to be involved). Our leaders were
expecting to lose 10%. I'm still amazed that we could fly through so
I don't like your chances much with that sort of camera, I have a Canon
A510 and close close ups are pretty hard. Perhaps there are some tips in
the operators manual.
The Canon is a good mid budget camera, easy to use and pumps out
reasonable quality pics.
Anyway I guess some of the photo buffs
Here are photos of black walnut key top I made coupla months ago.
Wilton
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Wilton,
You do great work. Clocks and keys and what else??
Congratulations
Take care,
Chuck
On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:24 PM, wilton strickland wrote:
Here are photos of black walnut key top I made coupla months ago.
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Beautiful work!! (Takin' orders? :)
From: wilton strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:24:26 -0500
To: mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] Wood key tops
Here are photos of black walnut key top I made
Not photography apparently :-)
Hendrik
who is no whizz with the camera, thank God for auto focus and such
Chuck Landenberger wrote:
Wilton,
You do great work. Clocks and keys and what else??
Congratulations
Take care,
Chuck
On Feb 28, 2008, at 5:24 PM, wilton strickland
What else? Well, not much, I guess, but I've written 3 books, designed and
built several houses, restored 2 National Register large Victorian mansions
and the Georgian Colonial Revival house I'm living in; restored coupla '67
VW's 25 years ago. Dropped a lot of iron from B-52's onto Vietnam,
Yeah, I'm very disappointed (and embarrassed) with the focus of the photos.
Evidently, I was too close for aotofocus to handle it. Yes, my eyesight is
still good enough to see that the photos are not well focused and,
therefore, I shouldn't have sent 'em.
Wilton
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