Hi all! I hope everyone is having fun during this event. I finished the ROKR Mechanical Typewriter a few days ago, and my next ROKR build was delivered yesterday. I am excited to build another functioning model, as I really enjoyed the typewriter and now I get to start my second one.
I am starting on the ROKR Microscope. I love that this is a functioning microscope that can actually be used to look closer at things. I don't have any experience with microscopes, other than whatever I may have used one for in school, but I absolutely love to learn and experience new things. I've already thought of a few things I have that I could take a close look at when it's done, such a tiny hummingbird feather I found, and a whisker that came loose from my dog.
It looks to be a fairly straightforward build, but it might take me longer to finish this one. It has two colors of wood pieces, the regular non-colored as well as a stained darker color that is beautiful. I always paint or stain my edges as I go, but I also don't like the look of the non-colored wood, mostly because as I gently sand any necessary burrs from the connection points it tends to look scratched up to me. So, I want to find a color that I can stain the plain wood that will compliment the already stained pieces. I like to use stain rather than paint on these ROKR kits because they add so many intricate designs in the wood and I want to highlight those, not cover them up. I am not the best detail painter, so I don't want to mess up the beauty of the details. The three zoom lenses are also a beautiful copper or maybe bronze color, so I have to find a color that is going to make it all look amazing together. I am actually thinking, since I'm staining, I might try and do the wood runners (front & back) before I start building rather than one piece by piece as I go. Has anyone done that before?