My saturday night date with a VLM Mini

[ZapTheMad]

Who says you can't do quality work with a dremel :)

BEFORE:

http://www.iodclan.net/zap/vlm/vlm1.jpg

AFTER:

http://www.iodclan.net/zap/vlm/vlm3.jpg

http://www.iodclan.net/zap/vlm/vlm2.jpg

http://www.iodclan.net/zap/vlm/vlm4.jpg

[SpecialBlend2786]

wowzers!
nice job! :)

[JrnyFan1985]

cool man, what metal is that? is it nickel?

[teufelhunden]

Aluminum that he polished.

[barberjohn]

wow, at first when you mentioned a dremel, i thought you were going to show us a pic of this messed up aka body with crappy designes in it :D , but that looks really good. how long did that take you?

[jwalker87]

holy ***** that looks nice! I wish I had polishing skillz like that.

[RtDaNiMaL]

hey, i see that you live in sacramneto, me too. i was wondering if i could pay yu to do something like that for me. PM me.
tanks.... and that looks great.

[The Spanish Inquisition]

Looks good, I want to try. think I'll start with some stock aluminium first though. :P

did you end up using a polishing compound / jewlers rouge, or just paper?

[ZapTheMad]

I'm just yankin yer chains. There's no way you can do this with a Dremel :D

I have a small machine shop set up in my garage. It's just polished aluminum using a 6" buffing wheel. It's buffed with rouge for now but I still need to bead blast before I send it off for anno. When done, the marker will be all dust black. I'm trying to do most of the prep work to keep the cost down.

I might consider doing some custom milling for people in the future after I hone my skillz a bit. This was my first shot at hacking into a body and it took a while to get the courage up and actually do it. I don't have the best mill in the world and I was afraid of messing up. But it turned out really nice :cool:

[SpecialBlend2786]

I'm just yankin yer chains. There's no way you can do this with a Dremel :D

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lol, but whatever. Still a very clean job :)