How thick are popsicle sticks?

[BrianShaw]

You have at least one hobby shop in Peoria that caters to the model aircraft crowd... have you visited them? I use that as a source for thin Baltic birch plywood. The advantage is that you can bring calipers and verify that the product meets your needs.

[Tin Can]

I buy wood from this guy

He is in MO and close to me and Alan

https://www.ebay.com/str/cobain62?_t...75.m3561.l2563

[Alan Townsend]

Brian, Tin Can, everyone, thanks for the info.

I bought some 1/16 plywood at a Hobby Lobby in Peoria, tooK it home and it was almost 2mm thick, so retuned it. Many online sell 1/16 as 1.5mm, a little thin but usable.

Today, after speaking with the dealer, bought some 1/16 basswood plywood, which is pretty soft, but was recommended by the dealer as being close to .187 and uniform and easy to sand a bit, so I ordered $10 worth. I know it's kinda soft, but I'll use it under my 1/8 material, which is mdf. Mdf is pretty hard but difficult to sand due to the fibers. The birch aircraft plywood is very pricey, and the guy told me he doesn't know the actual thickness. The 1/16 is probably net thickness, kind of like a 2x4? We'll see how it works. I did buy some large Craft sticks, which looked close to 1/16 but measured all over the place.

Thanks again,

Alan, who got tired of measuring popsicle sticks and optimistically hoping its not too soft but ordered basswood plywood instead, Townsend he he he
Thanks again.

[Tin Can]

we assume you have micrometer, dial vernier and check them

also straight edges,

i have spring loaded depth guage and a tall height guage

I used them for decades at work

all you need on gg is 4 small pads

I have examined many OE designs

[Tin Can]

I hope you soon realize nobody will ever find these posts

LFPF search is very poor

[Paul Ron]

popsickles arent made with quality woods. they arent dimensionally consistant or stable either.

brst to use the same wood the camera is made of.

[Ulophot]

Just a thought from one with virtually no woodworking skills. RE: soft basswood, maybe a wood hardening liquid? Otherwise, Were it I, I'd take the cheery-wood offer posted above. Again, I am no woodworker; it sounded solid and generous.

[Alan Townsend]

Philip, thanks for the ideas. I'm making my camera back out of laminated 1/4 inch BC plywood 7x7 inches dimension, which is also a soft wood. I also have a post on not using springs to hold the film holders. Partly to reduce scratching on the mating surfaces of the camera, which would be these Basswood spacers. They will be painted flat black, which will seal the surface a bit. I also needed this thin wood for other parts of the camera as well as other future projects.

I'm not much of a woodworker for making cabinetry, or even working hard wood for that matter. I more boat builder type who has used a lot of plywood, which is much stronger and lighter than hard woods. The camera will have two 7x7 inch frames, front is 1x4, rear is 1x1. I had to do a major redesign today. Was planning on a drop bed, like a Graphic camera, but now using a 1x4 about 10 inches long instead. All the framing is just whitewood. The camera is almost all softwood, with some aluminum parts. I'm using a dark oak colored polyurethane varnish all the wood, so it may look fairly okay. Building for function more than beauty.

Alan Townsend

[Alan Townsend]

I just received that Basswood, and boy am I impressed. Five sheets 8 x 12 for about ten bucks. I've never seen plywood so perfect or lie so flat in my life! It is within about 2 thousandths of being 1/16.

A little soft with little spine but should work OK for me.

[Tin Can]

I buy stacks of exactly 8X8 for lens board

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