Geek1945

Here's a list of naval related books available from Project Gutenburg all are without copywrights and maybe downloaded for your interest.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=sail+ship
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=wood+ship
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=building+ships
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=british+war-ships
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46094
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48179
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25749
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29285
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25544 The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model by Howard Irving Chapelle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31179  Fulton's "Steam Battery": Blockship and Catamaran by Howard Irving Chapelle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23861  The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) by Churchill, Miller, and Reynolds
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46215  The Battles in Flanders From Ypres to Neuve Chapelle by Edmund Dane
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6721  The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26509  Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Parry
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4673  Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life by Arthur E. Knights
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31910  Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp by John Shipp
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10542  The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24880  The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13830  The Wreck of the Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21531  Woodwork Joints: How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by William Fairham
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22107  Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12299  The Mechanical Properties of Wood by Samuel J. Record
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20846  Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27238  Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43604  Wood-working for Beginners: A Manual for Amateurs by Charles G. Wheeler
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43574  Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42650  The Boy Craftsman by A. Neely Hall
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26598  Seasoning of Wood by J. B. Wagner
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52902  A Naval Expositior by Thomas Riley Blanckley
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36776  Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/725      Men of Invention and Industry by Samuel Smiles
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11368  Stories of Inventors: The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers by Doubleday
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50475  The Young Ship-Builders of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7947  The Diary of a U-boat Commander by Sir Stephen King-Hall
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44228   Boat-Building and Boating by Daniel Carter Beard
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23601  The U-boat hunters by James B. Connolly
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53900  Historical Record of the Seventh, or the Queen's Own Regiment of Hussars
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20483  Artillery Through the Ages by Albert C. Manucy
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43799  Gunnery in 1858: Being a Treatise on Rifles, Cannon, and Sporting Arms by Greener
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38961  Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18941  The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 by Ralph Delahaye Paine
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52942  The Year after the Armada by Martin A. S. Hume
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52472  Captain Cuellar's adventures in Connaught & Ulster A.D. 1588. by Hugh Allingham
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22942  Clare Avery: A Story of the Spanish Armada by Emily Sarah Holt
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3334  Drake's Great Armada by Walter Bigges
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42604   Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. Freeman
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32166  Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder by Shan F. Bullock       
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29685  Submarine Warfare of To-day by Charles W. Domville-Fife
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26641  The Submarine Hunters: A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33438  Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26040  Log-book of Timothy Boardman by Timothy Boardman
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45583  Scapa and a Camera by C. W. Burrows
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21404  From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by Kingston
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36136  Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by James Barnes
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45011  The Logs of the Serapis--Allance--Ariel, Under the Command of John Paul Jones,
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46788  The Story of the "Britannia" by Edward Phillips Statham
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40847  A Short History of H.M.S. Victory by W. J. L. Wharton
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21389  Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by Kingston
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34489  Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40689   Off to Sea: The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his Road to Fame by Kingston


Enjoy Ed

This is the neatest hobby size miter box located so far here's a link, you judge it:

http://woodarchivist.com/1469-diy-pull-saw-miter-box/

Other DIY tools/jigs are also available at WOODARCHIVIST site suggest you browse it.

Enjoy Ed

This video might help to visualize how spiling is done on an actual small boat:

Geek1945/Ed

Another eBay find:

My wife/CFO told me she's going to get me some horse blindsides because I continuity are looking for things to re-purpose. Hospitals are a modelers goldmine and 6% bleach will nuke any known germs. You're embarrassing Ed, no dear just saving the planet by recycling.

Now lets do some re-purposing to a common micrometer, well it's in disguise as a tire depth gauge, even better you won't even need to go get it. Just look here:

Check out measurement error of +/- 1-3 cm compared to below

How about those LR-44 batteries:

New 50pcs x AG13 LR44 357 A76 Button Cell Battery For Clocks Watches Calculators

$2.84 shipped

I'm considering making a laminated (Glulam) mast for long term stability. Even a piece of square stock halved then glued reversing the grain direction should eliminate any warping in one axis, four pieces would be even better, and with a carbon fiber arrow shaft center about the ultimate. Look at the Maltese Falcons' masts for an example of how far mast making has come. This would permit more tension on the rigging without sagging making the model look really well trimmed out.

Ed

Often brilliant ideas are so simple they make you feel humble, yours is one. Two thumb up, many thanks for sharing it!!

Hi All,

My consideration is cutting losses especially with expensive lumber. Visit any molding mill and you’ll get a new appreciation of just how much lumber ends up in horse stalls bedding. Just about every woodworker, modeler, builder complains about wood quality and prices. So it make sense to minimize wood losses while still producing a high quality stock.

The days of circular sawmills is almost gone, replace by band saws some with teeth on both sides. The sawdust, wood chips, etc. is recycled into engineered wood products in many applications. So it make sense to me to follow their lead and use band saws and scroll saws to minimize waste $$.

Our case vary narrow wood strips = high cutting losses, planning, sanding losses so consider a 0.025” wood slicer band saw blade like Luthiers use versus a Byrnes thin 4” circular saw at 0.040-0.055. Simple math shows the band saw the winner by almost 2:1, not to mention number of teeth per blade. Now consider cutting speed, curved cutting, cutting thickness, footage between resharpening/new blades then decide. Check out blade maintenance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNi06buKa8w & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNi06buKa8w

Most 9” band saws (like Makita) will handle a 3.5” cut = more footage per/hour = more time spent model building. At $450 for Byrnes versus.

So let’s spend $467.00 and see what we can by @ Home Depot pick what is wanted, no you can it all;

1. Ryobi 9”x3.5” band saw + 3 wood blade ($20) pack total $150
2. Ryobi variable speed scroll saw $99 or Wen $88.25
3. Ryobi 10” sliding miter saw easy cutoffs $169.00
4. Ryobi 10” table saw if you just want one $129.00
5. Skill 10” Bench drill press $125.00
6. Rockwell Blade Runner (upside down table jigsaw) $99.00
7. Makita compact router for making cases etc. $89.00
8. Proxxon XY drill table clone on eBay $42.00 shipped
9. Rotary tool flex cable eBay $7 extendable vertical hanger $4 circular saws 6 assortment $2.00
10. Check out eBay’s power nail/dental tools for carving you might be surprised. I use a gift card & PayPal just for security sake but find China sellers more honest than stateside.

Now before someone decides to make me roadkill, yes there are far better tools, no these tools won’t last forever (will you?), likely you have one or more already so this is just a selection comparison. If you have a Byrnes saw great, just some modelers don’t have deep pockets, some are just starting out, and some have spouses. Other options are available like 4x36” belt sander easy to convert to thickness sander $89.50 and these are everyday prices watch for frequent sales. How about those imported kit prices ouch! Finally likely these prices will increase if China trade policies change who knows! Ed

Geek1945

What floats your boat?

Hi Adrieke,

Sorry for the late reply, as an old nut with 3 band saws this info might help. Blades wander since the majority of teeth are stamping machine cut. This process leaves a burr one the opposite side which is normal dealt with by offsetting the fence. Like all industrial processes there can be some margin (play) in manufacture. Since blades are mass produced output cost is a major factor in blade quality along with blade stock.

Just like cars higher quality, tighter margins, materials used, workmanship, are factors in final cost. Stamped teeth are fast to make so usually command a lower price. If you desire a better quality blade consider a precision ground one. These blades are still stamped cut, additionally a precision diamond grinder is used to insure the blade teeth are very consistent, and REALLY SHARP wear gloves, also blade stock much better. The teeth are then heat treated to harder Rockwall numbers so should cut more footage before regrinding.

Personally I use a metal detector before resawing since striking metal can damage any woodcutting blade.

I have no interest in these blades but, are a good starting place:

http://www.olsonsaw.net/

If you wish to educate yourself on band saw’s I recommend getting this catalog (bible) which will explain how to reduce saw problems to near zero, because no blade can compensate for an improperly align saw:

http://idvwdesign.blogspot.com/2012/05/download-iturra-designs-2010-catalog.html

Pardon the lengthy reply, and happy sawing. Ed

Geek1945

Pardon my timely post on this old topic:

The leading source for these engineered wood products is USDA Forest Products Laboratories. A free detailed downloadable book is available at: http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/several_pubs.php?grouping_id=100&header_id=p

I suggest downloading it if have any questions regarding wood and engineered wood and related products i.e. adhesives.

Majority of these new products are aimed at the construction industry and you have likely seen them in new home and apartment construction. As with any engineered materials there are advantages and disadvantages depending on application. The FPL book will guide you through each topic promoting reader understanding.

One item which I found very interesting for ultralight wing spars is GLULAM (glue laminated wood) if properly done can increase strength by 25% without any weight penalty.

Geek1945

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