DIY Binocular Mount

[Gweedo]

I've had my 15 x 70s for some time now and I've thought that a mount would be useful, but I'm not sure that some I've seen would be sturdy enough, so I thought about making my own.

I found some 6mm brass plate in the workshop, so some sawing, filing, silver soldering, and polishing later this is what I've come up with:

[pete_l]

That's an impressive piece of work!

[Gina]

Beautiful

[JamesM]

Far to posh for those binoculars! Looks very professional and goes rather nicely with the mount too.

Congratulations

James

[yeti monster]

A very nice piece of work, once it tarnishes and looks like brass again it will be really beautiful.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Work of art, you could sell one of those to a gallery. Very nicely made indeed!

[Aoraki]

Lovely piece of kit!

[cantab]

Looks rock solid.

[JamesF]

Lovely. Now what you need is a pair of "steam punk" binoculars to go on it

James

[sbooder]

Lovely. Now what you need is a pair of "steam punk" binoculars to go on it

James

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

brilliant, but does it have goto?

[cantab]

It has a clock drive at least.

[EBU]

Excelent idea Gweedo. Thanks

[jimmyjamjoejoe]

Diabolical!

[spaceboy]

Superb piece of workmanship!

[stunt squirrel]

skills

[BinocularSky]

What a beautiful bit of kit, Gweedo! How does it perform in use? (I can't imagine it being anything other than a great improvement on bog-standard L-brackets.)

[Gweedo]

It's very stable in use due to the thickness of the brass brackets. If I were to do it again, I'd make the uprights a little narrower at the top as you can't get the narrowest adjustment in inter pupilliary distance (not that it's a problem for me). Also, the C of G of the binos is slightly forward of the front post, so the rear post doesn't support any weight, though it does provide stability.

The next thing to make is a parallelogram for it.

[BinocularSky]

Also, the C of G of the binos is slightly forward of the front post,

That's how it should be. If it isn't, the torque on the elevation axis increases as you aim at higher altitudes.

[deebster]

Nice piece of work Gweedo