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  1. RichardG
    Much better 👍
  2. RichardG
    This interested me as well. You can actually buy a copy of the books that this print comes from. Since it's written by builder who collaborated with Brunel it's presumably accurate. As a source of information for building a model, it would be perfect. However, this is definitely not cheap at $3,600. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30940625059&cm_sp=det-_-bsk-_-bdp. It would be a book to treasure. BTW, if you're trying to persuade your significant other, just say it's only $30 a pound and shipping is free in the US.
  3. RichardG
    I couldn't agree more.
  4. RichardG
    Welcome. 0.0115 is 1/87 (HO)? Emphasizing the rigging will be interesting.
  5. RichardG
    Interestingly (or scarily), all the wood on the Midwest Products website is out of stock.
  6. RichardG
    I think there may be a lot of stocking up😀. Myself included. Although I will be waiting a little while, mine is not urgent.
  7. RichardG
    That looks like a good site for drills. I notice they have a pin vise that will take a 1/8" shaft - https://drillbitsunlimited.com/Hand-Tools-Pin-Vise-C300864.aspx
  8. RichardG
    Newbies are always welcome and it's a perfect question. 👍 I would be concerned about the lack of detailed descriptions. "Wood, fittings and rope are the first class quality" is meaningless. All the photos also appear to be computer generated.
  9. RichardG
    I got these recently from my local Walmart for about $7. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Made-Smart-8-Piece-Organizer-Bin-Pack/21063180.
  10. RichardG
    Tagua nuts can fairly big (50mm) however they apparently always have a void somewhere inside, so I don't think they'd work for large figure heads. For smaller decorative carvings they could be really good - no grain and they can be dyed. You can even buy slices. My carving abilities are zero at the moment but a couple of my planned builds have some carving needed. Has anyone here used them?
  11. RichardG
    If making ship models required this level of carving I'd have to give it up. Amazing.
  12. RichardG
    Wonderful. This is on my retirement build list (a very short list). I have the books, I have the cannons, now all I need is the skill. Fortunately, I also have the peace of mind that not reaching this level is ok.
  13. RichardG
    Not sure if this helps. When I don't have the equipment to take off material, I find adding material sometimes works. For the rail above I see a rod and 3 washers. The problem here is the common one in our hobby - everything is so small. I'm surprised the file didn't work though. Copper is fairly soft. A new high-quality file might help. That and a template to hold it steady.
  14. RichardG
    Thanks Michael. Actually there's about a 1/2 mm gap. I had debated with myself about having it slide on the base. However I wasn't sure if it might become a problem later if I had any expansion of the wood.
  15. RichardG
    Thanks Don. I'll definitely curse! Still it's nice to see a well used and worn tool.
  16. RichardG
    I think I'm going buy/make some small clamps which can then be clamped back in the vice to hold smaller items. As Wefalck mention some different jaws may help. I looked at parallels in the past but was put-off by the price. I'll probably make stuff as needed. Plenty of opportunity to make more jigs!
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    I wanted a reasonable quality vise for my drill press. I had a cheap Amazon one that I threw away it was so bad. I have one of these: Which is ok but not great. As well as having a small opening size, those enormous mounting slots are useless. You can get really good machinists vises but they're expensive and I'm not milling big chunks of steel. So I decided to make one. I used rods, bearings, and brackets designed for CNC machines on a 1/4" aluminium plate. The body is 9 and 12mm birch ply. I wanted it to look nice because I'm planning on keeping it a long time, so I covered the ply in some old walnut sheet I had. The jaws are bolivian rosewood which is definitely a bit over the top but I had a couple of pieces left over from making a box at Christmas. There are 5/16" holes drilled in the base so I can mount it on my XY table at an accurate 90 degree angle. It's heavy and rigid, and I had fun making it. 😀
  18. RichardG
    My order from Ocooch arrived on Saturday - I'm very pleased with the quality. I sounds like you only need a small quantity of 1/32" strip. I've thinned strip down by just using a simple jig of a couple of parallel 1/32" basswood strips on a larger piece of wood and then pulling 1/16th strips though the space with a sanding stick held across the strips. Pull the strips through a few times and when sandpaper stops producing any dust, you have your 1/32" strip.
  19. RichardG
    And noises from the livestock.
  20. RichardG
    I ordered some wood from Ocooch for the first time this week. Ordered March 9th, shipped March 10th, UPS are delivering tomorrow 😀.
  21. RichardG
    1/32nd Yellow Cedar is still listed on his site. I think it's slightly softer than the other suggestions.
  22. RichardG
    AFAIK, a 32lb cannon ball would have been 6 and a bit inches, so at 1/64 about 0.1". A 12lb maybe 0.07". Visually smaller than you'd expect.
  23. RichardG
    Maybe they think 66% satisfied customers is ok, after all it's more than 1/2. I've met people like that. I wonder how many of the 1/3 that had epoxy left over are still satisfied when the canoe doesn't last because they didn't put enough on?
  24. RichardG
    Cookwoods have holly on sale at the moment. I have got wood from them in the past and have been pleased with the quality. Never bought holly from them though and my wallet is a bit empty at the moment. https://www.cookwoods.com/collections/holly
  25. RichardG
    And if you want to spend even more money, Bridge City have an anniversary stainless steel/Titanium alloy version for $299. In a choice of 3 colors!

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