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Richard Bradfield

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About Richard Bradfield

  • Birthday 11/19/1953

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  1. Karl, I have been following your build of all three sections of this ship for a few years now and can only say they are all astounding! Might we see a photo shoot of all three sections together?
  2. Gaetan, I have been following your work for a long time and am constantly amazed at you skills. You should know that there may be a problem with the site you provided above. When I went to the site, it infected my iPad with a virus or malware and locked up my internet browser. I was able to delete the virus without much problem, but thought you should know. Here is a picture of the locked screen, which apparently is fairly widespread as I found the solution on the Internet through another device.
  3. As Adam said, welcome to the club. I think that makes about seven skipjack builds underway.
  4. You at least need to install the upper stiffener as that also serves as a ledge to glue the deck boards to. The rest are more for correctness of construction than actual need.
  5. I have the Allwin combo sander and like it just fine. Haven't had it very long but have used the belt sander much more than the disk. I don't know anything about Proxxon tools.
  6. Hey Rich, good job so far. I'm not sure if the photo is skewing the view but you might recheck the dimensions for the hatch and cabin openings against the boat center line as they appear off a bit.
  7. As always I am speechless when viewing your work. I need to find a dictionary of superlatives just to comment properly.
  8. Jay, very nice work on the sails and the boltrope. I'm getting ready to sew the ropes on the sails for my Willie Bennett and my instructions say to sew threw the rope not around it. Which way did you do it?
  9. Nice design Sinan. The french cleat would be the perfect way to hang the unit. Have you thought of making the work surface cantilevered to the back, which would negate interference from the legs? With the right bracket you could also lock it in place when on a tabletop.
  10. Rich, as Adam said, welcome to the Willie Bennett club. There are four other Bennett's underway on this forum and one in the completed gallery. Its great to have another!
  11. Tim, Bob and Popeye, Thanks for looking in and for the good words. I haven't worked on the boat for about a week as I've helping my son refinish some furniture. That project took a couple of days but turned out great. My last post was about installing the dredge rollers and although they turned out great I had a problem with the blackened finish. When I first blackened the parts and installed them the blackening looked great, a nice flat even finish but in about two days they turned rusty with splotches of black. Looked kinda good actually, like they were really weathered but not in keeping with the rest of the boat. I had to hand paint them after they were installed but they look good, so I'm happy. I also have a tale of two sails to tell. I made a previous post about my first try at sail making which I was quite proud of. Since then I decided to use the tan colored cloth so I remade the sails. The basic sails turned out good, nice seams, and hems. The next step was to put the bolt rope on. I didn't think I could sew them on so I used glue. On the jib sail I used ca glue to attach the bolt rope. It worked but stained the sail cloth and made the sail very stiff. On the main sail I used elmers white glue to attach the bolt rope. That worked well and the sail was less stiff. I then proceeded to put eyelets in the jib and this is what happened. The ca made the sail very brittle so I won't be doing that again. So back to the beginning. Since I have to remake the jib sail, I decided I will sew the bolt rope on and I also decided to take the time to install eyelets, and thimbles at all the sail lacing points. That means I will have to remake the main sail as well, as the elmers glue made the bolt rope to hard to pass a needle through. That will be a VERY time consuming job but I think it will be very realistic and add a lot to the model. The eyelets I am using are 1/16 dia. x 3/32 shank . I tested whether I could do this well and these pics show the result. The stitching on the piece of bolt rope will be much better than shown as this was just a test to see how difficult it would be. To maintain my sanity, I think the best plan is to work on these sails a bit at a time while also working on other aspects of the boat. Thanks for looking in.
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