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mkmossop
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Thanks for the comments, it helps. So I guess I'll just have to get over the colour difference cause it doesn't sound like I'll find the exact same wood... hopefully I'll get over it, lol. Also I'm having trouble with staining the keel. I'd also prefer to have it the same colour as the rest of the boat, but it won't stain dark. Umm... any suggestions?
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Hey wthilgen thanks for replying. Yes the are all perpendicular to the keel, but they're not parallel to each other. Other people to have gotten them perpendicular to the keel and parallel to each other somehow. Anyway, I decided to just go ahead and stain the boat, but now have another issue. I ran out of the walnut strips that came with the boat because I made so many mistakes, so I ordered some new stuff for the second level. After staining the new wood I used on the upper level came out significantly darker (and uglier in my opinion) than the lower level. I think this will bug me permanently if I don't fix it, but I don't know what to do. If I order more wood it's likely not gonna be the exact same stuff that came with the boat. Does anyone know where I can get the same strips that Amati uses? Here's a pic after staining (darker stuff is the upper level at the back). Thanks for any help!
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Hmmm... do you rotate the wood along the lathe or move the lathe along the wood? Wow cool... I think I'll give this a go first and see how it works... thanks!
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Hey thanks for the replies . I'm using round dowels... so I guess I'll try the drill press method and hopefully not screw it up, lol.
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I'm not sure how I'm supposed to taper the masts for my model. I've thought of sanding, but seems like that could leave it pretty uneven. Should I take them in somewhere to get them tapered? Thanks for any help .
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Ok so I'm having some trouble with the Santa Maria model I've been working on. It's my first build so I had no idea what I was doing when I started. I've been working on it for years on and off and am finally getting close to finished. Anyway one thing is really bugging me. There are a bunch of vertical pieces on the hull which aren't lined up properly... I've marked a red line beside them to show. You can see the first set of pieces is lined up with the red line, but the second set toward the rear are on an angle with respect to the red line. I know I'm being picky, but it's bugging me and I think it looks a little silly. When you look at each set of vertical pieces alone I think they look lined up ok, but looking at the whole boat together I think it looks a bit funny. So, I'm considering re-angling the front set, but I think if I tilt them forwards it may look funny too... so I don't know what to do, lol. I think if you're looking at the boat from an angle it looks fine (second pic), but if you're looking at it directly from the side it looks weird. Any advice or comments? Should I redo it or leave it how it is? Here's another guy's model of the same boat... here it seems like everything is lined up perfectly... not sure how he managed that. http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6179/dsc03595.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img405/958/dsc03666y.jpg
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