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  1. KeithAug
    Unlikely Andy. More likely to be a new dress and jewellery. I'll look very fetching on boxing day.
  2. KeithAug
    Yes John - they are a millstone around my neck and I suspect that if they buy me stuff it will only be because they want to borrow it.😐 Thank you Pat.
  3. KeithAug
    Fortunately I completed my first 2 week dust free sentence on Monday. I don't yet have a date for the second eye so I though I had better "make dust while the sun shines" - well actually it has been bucketing it down for weeks but you know what I mean. And so it was time to power up the scroll saw to test out the good eye. I partially cut out 42 frames. I cut about .020" on the waste side of the hull lines and then sanded back using the disk and spindle sanders. Only the hull outer profiles are cut at this stage. The up-stand for the baseboard isn't cut and neither are the keel slots, deck profiles or the inner profiles. I still have a lot of work to do but at least I made a start. Christmas is fast approaching and the family are turning up a week tomorrow. So only a few workshop days available until the new year when presumably the second eye will disrupt progress.
  4. KeithAug
    She is looking very neat John. I bet the museum visitors are well impressed.
  5. KeithAug
    Lovely little model Steven.
  6. KeithAug
    Nicely done Nils
  7. KeithAug
    Maybe it's you that got it wrong PAT. 😜
  8. KeithAug
    I think they also cook the Christmas turkey on the Barbi wearing Tshirts and shorts while knocking back tinnies. How do they expect Santa to operate his sleigh when they insist on celebrating Christmas in the middle of summer. All very strange!
  9. KeithAug
    Valeriy, Is the originals hull plated and riveted?
  10. KeithAug
    An even better idea - the festive season should be amazing. Glad to hear things are improving but this increases the incentive to have as many cocktails as possible before you are completetly better.😁
  11. KeithAug
    Pat - you could do some sanding and make use of them while you have the opportunity. 😁 It must be quite frustrating do the quacks have a solution?
  12. KeithAug
    The good one😀 The deck fittings are very neatly done. Were the hatch bolts individually marked or do you have some secret technique for getting them so precise?
  13. KeithAug
    Very nicely done.
  14. KeithAug
    From the earlier posts I had wondered about how well the hull would turn out. I shouldn't have worried - it turned out really nice.
  15. KeithAug
    Yes it's quite amazing isn't it Phil. I felt sight discomfort at times during the operation but no real pain. I guess the eyes don't have many nerves to register the pain. Before the operation my biggest worry was the thought of seeing the scalpel heading toward my eye. No one told me that the operating light would be so strong that I wouldn't see any of the surgical procedure / instruments. All a piece of cake really.
  16. KeithAug
    Eric - I had assumed it was intentional. My guess is that many of these working boats would have been built quite roughly. A high quality finish might detract from the authenticity of the finished model.
  17. KeithAug
    Oh dear Pat - I hope it wasn't too bad and recovery was rapid. I guess we will all get it at some time. Over here we seem to have settled into annual autumn vaccinations. Flue one arm covid the other.
  18. KeithAug
    Richard - anything involving dust - mostly housework.😀 Thank you all for the good wished. I am going to create the manufacturing drawings for Cangarda's screw, rudder and rudder post today. At least that will make me feel a little useful.
  19. KeithAug
    Yes Brian - Cataract surgery is fantastic. I'm glad to hear it worked so well for you. I'm looking forward to getting the other side done.
  20. KeithAug
    Lovely draughting work Andy. Frame 3 is quite revealing of the "fineness" of the bow.
  21. KeithAug
    So that is one eye done. It turns out that the world is incredibly blue and bright. I have spent the last few hours turning the contrast and brightness down on all the TV, computer and phone screens. If I look through only my old eye all the blues have a distinctly yellow appearance a cross between colour and sepia tone photographs, while my new eye delivers such strong colour contrast its almost like a laser beam bing fired into my retina. Closing and opening each eye in turn produces incredibly different images. The focus isn't all that precise at the moment but I am told this will come over the next couple of days. So far so good. P.S i haven't looked in the mirror yet or studied the wife. The dog however is looking very cute. Eberhard - its much better than any new glasses i have ever had. Gary - I am shattered. Ras - Thank you for following. I have to agree with your sentiments.
  22. KeithAug
    Clearly eyes not working that well - i intended putting the update in Cangarda - i will copy across. Thank you Keith / Eberhard for good wishes.
  23. KeithAug
    So that is one eye done. It turns out that the world is incredibly blue and bright. I have spent the last few hours turning the contrast and brightness down on all the TV, computer and phone screens. If I look through only my old eye all the blues have a distinctly yellow appearance a cross between colour and sepia tone photographs, while my new eye delivers such strong colour contrast its almost like a laser beam bing fired into my retina. Closing and opening each eye in turn produces incredibly different images. The focus isn't all that precise at the moment but I am told this will come over the next couple of days. So far so good. P.S i haven't looked in the mirror yet or studied the wife. The dog however is looking very cute.
  24. KeithAug
    Tom - if you are referring to the keel slots I think I may cut them on the Byrnes saw not on the mill as i did with Altair. The slots will be much narrower on Cangarda. 1/8" on Cangarda, 1/4" on Altair.
  25. KeithAug
    Nils - the scroll saw is powered. I'm not dedicated enough to do 41 frames by hand.

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