lamarvalley
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Absolutely beautiful stunning details and definitely a pleasure to view. I agree with Ferit... it may be the same old compliments but they are genuine.... perhaps if we all could wordsmith as well as you craft your ship we could come up with new ways to give praise
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Beautiful planking Vitus. I love the staggered boards with the varied lights and darks. Very very nice great job!
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Happy Birthday Tim... Have an amazing day...
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Getting a good start Adriaan... I enjoy the view from here I agree with Popeye... you'll never make it without some bash... sooner or later you'll run across some little thing, something that OcCre did okay but you know you could do better and BOOM... bashing begins And so what... from what I see you're up to the task and your GF will be better for it.
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Beautiful work Ferit and I'm with Ian... Berlin can't be the last... you have too much talent to not continue to astound us with your skills
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Alrighty, here we go... popcorn and a soft chair and I'm ready...
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Wow, wait a few days to read and find yourself 3 pages back... Your rigging looks great Popeye and I love the weird but cool idea of imagining you're the little guy pulling the rope and how would it need to be for 'real' use. Oddly, that opens of a thought process that helps. I too have the vision of an eagle... well, I mean I did... now I use cheaters for small stuff like reading and modeling and I too don't like a 'helmet' on my head to magnify this tiny world I seem to find enjoyable. Instead I use a magnifying lamp on a long articulating arm. It lights up and makes everything a tad bigger but took a while to get used to working around. I might try the head thing again since it is nice not to have to move the lamp around so often. I'm sure I can get used to it.... eventually...
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Well looky there... that ship is coming right along. Nice work Sjors....
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Awww Robbyn, the curse of the San Fran continues in that we wanna be perfecter... your upper shrouds look fine, better than fine, they look good... and one step closer to completion.... just wait until i show my anemic little upper shrouds... they seem ill but won't get ripped out... only forward from this point on...
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Looks great Adriaan... sooooo close now
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Yes Sjors I do like the second rope. The first pics were several pages back and that one was real thick and fuzzy... the new one looks like rope and much better.
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If I understand you changed the mainstay rope.... Yes? In the pics I'm looking at I think the new one looks sleeker and more rope-like versus the old one that looked like yarn. So... yes, it is an improvement.
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Looks good Robbyn and perhaps most importantly.... it is PROGRESS!!! :) I have used CA and it's hard to beat it's quick action but I found a flat lacquer (Testors -tiny little jars from hobby lobby) works pretty well and sort of melts into the line. Not nearly as quick as CA, what is after all, but I found it's a tad faster than white glue.
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Holy cow Jim, those blocks are so small they're hardly there... how do you drill something that minute... yikes! She looks great.... you did a beautiful job and you can be quite proud
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Yeah, I thought the canoe would get a reaction... ... but it was serious since all those others are long term projects and I like that about them but there is also something about doing a simpler task and doing it very well... A couple months ago someone on here showed a peterboro canoe that he made for a wedding present and his was beautiful... it got me thinking... so yes, one of midwest's canoes is a definite.... it's the others that I'm hemming and hawing about....
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Looks real good Eric, bold yellow... I like it. Somewhere, I think it was in this forum over the past 6+ months or so, I saw a comment on lettering... I recall they used a template found in the auto-body world for laying on the transom. I recall the letters were embossed on the template or transfer sheet backwards so they transfered to the transom in the right orientation. Yeah, i know... kind of cryptic and not a ton of help but it may be somewhere to look.
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Your close up shots show how rigging is supposed to be... and an additional reason why I don't take close and tight shots of mine Your work is a fine example for us (me) rigging newbies. Merci!
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Looking good Adriaan.
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Clarify... sure... with pictures of course. The idea, again, not an accepted rigging solution but one of convenience at this point is as shown. Instead of going thru holes the connecting shroud stays outside of the disc (blue lines with deadeyes etc.).
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This suggestion might get me voted off the island but there is another way. After all, accuracy at this point is relative eh? Rather than go thru the crows nest with holes perhaps the solution is to stay outside the circle and go up between the disc and under the outer and upper ring. Tie off on the last ratline in the lower section, angle out and then under the ring and up. The lower deadeye of the block would be positioned above the lip but below the outer ring. Does this make sense? It would angle the connecting shrouds a lot more than going thru holes but I'm not thinking it would be horribly different. YOu could even slice a small groove in the disc portion to seat your line from the lower shroud. ?? It also would move things along and as this is (for me) a training vessel I have adapted more than my share in the learning. The next build will benefit from old Florencia.
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What they said... Believe me, I know the frustration this gal can give ya. I've redone and redone and then decided to redo parts again. I want to put her on a shelf, and I too thought of how many btu's she'd produce but I won't do it. I can't trash her, warts and all. Neither can you. I also know the frustration of feeling like I'm not having fun... and that's when I walk away and do other stuff. Lots of other stuff and I forget about her.... until one day I decide to look at her and see where I left off.... might tie a ratline... might not.... or I might tie 3 or 6 or a dozen... either way... I have no timeline to define what I SHOULD do so I do what I want to do and what I feel comfortable doing... my ship, my timeline, my hobby. Naturally the same applies to you. Give yourself a breather.... both you and your ship will benefit
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The planking looks real good Eric, even and solid. As to beauty marks... hmmm, on one hand is the glassy appearance of a finely sanded and polished hull versus the other hand of rustic and probably more realistic. Either works.... cause she's your build but for me I would go for option one if I could... my reason... I would always look at her and wonder why I didn't keep sanding.... Having said that tho... I kind of like the view that shows warts, hell, my SF has warts all over it, just not all of them are actually intentional
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Great job Eric. And thanks ... the picture of th yardarms is far better than the AL instructions so that one will be in use whenever I get there
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