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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from mtaylor in L'ARTÉSIEN 1762 by Jack H - 1:48 - 64-gun POF model by cnc
very impressive work Hjx
do not stop your work!
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from EricWilliamMarshall in What would you recommend for a workbench for disabled person who can only sit??
Adjustable working height is the key factor.Table height is a restriction. The easy way to get rid of this restriction is simply to have an electric adjusting height table.
If I have to shape a small part and I doit at 30 inches standard height, I will be able to do it, and the piece will be fine.
If I ca adjust the height, it will be easier to position my body. Having a better position, I will be able to do a better job, it will be easier and faster.
Also it will be very easy to position the wheelchair under the table.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from mtaylor in What would you recommend for a workbench for disabled person who can only sit??
Adjustable working height is the key factor.Table height is a restriction. The easy way to get rid of this restriction is simply to have an electric adjusting height table.
If I have to shape a small part and I doit at 30 inches standard height, I will be able to do it, and the piece will be fine.
If I ca adjust the height, it will be easier to position my body. Having a better position, I will be able to do a better job, it will be easier and faster.
Also it will be very easy to position the wheelchair under the table.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from reklein in What would you recommend for a workbench for disabled person who can only sit??
Adjustable working height is the key factor.Table height is a restriction. The easy way to get rid of this restriction is simply to have an electric adjusting height table.
If I have to shape a small part and I doit at 30 inches standard height, I will be able to do it, and the piece will be fine.
If I ca adjust the height, it will be easier to position my body. Having a better position, I will be able to do a better job, it will be easier and faster.
Also it will be very easy to position the wheelchair under the table.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Keith Black in What would you recommend for a workbench for disabled person who can only sit??
Adjustable working height is the key factor.Table height is a restriction. The easy way to get rid of this restriction is simply to have an electric adjusting height table.
If I have to shape a small part and I doit at 30 inches standard height, I will be able to do it, and the piece will be fine.
If I ca adjust the height, it will be easier to position my body. Having a better position, I will be able to do a better job, it will be easier and faster.
Also it will be very easy to position the wheelchair under the table.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from J11 in What would you recommend for a workbench for disabled person who can only sit??
Adjustable working height is the key factor.Table height is a restriction. The easy way to get rid of this restriction is simply to have an electric adjusting height table.
If I have to shape a small part and I doit at 30 inches standard height, I will be able to do it, and the piece will be fine.
If I ca adjust the height, it will be easier to position my body. Having a better position, I will be able to do a better job, it will be easier and faster.
Also it will be very easy to position the wheelchair under the table.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Michel L. in What would you recommend for a workbench for disabled person who can only sit??
The first tool I would buy in fact would not be a workbench. , I prefer an electric adjustable height table. You can find at different prices and relatively low prices.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from popash42 in 74-gun ship by Gaetan Bordeleau - 1:24
What goes well for yesterday photos set up, strangely it is easier to take deep inside photo without flash, only with LED lights.
Today's photos, again the key factor is the LIGHTING more than the camera. For interior photos of today, a smaller camera was used.
Which of these camera will gives the better result: a phone, or one action camera? Action camera is the good answer. I have been experimenting for years "small cameras". The first one was a Microsoft 1080p, up to the last one in 2020, a 4K Yi camera. Today the small camera used was a Go Pro. As with every camera, there is a learning curve, and I am still learning this one, but the results look like promising.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from mtaylor in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Here in Canada, it grows slowly. The purple flowers have white and purple wood. Very hardwood, it could be very interesting to carve.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from mtaylor in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Don Case asked is there some basic rules? Here are some to begin:
The quest to find the most suitable wood is a story which can last many years. The first step is visual. If we divide in 2 groups painted or unpainted model. If you choose unpainted model, then the wood grain is more important.
You look the wood species available and you try some. The word available is important. Apple wood has a nice scaled down grain, the color is perfect but It is not the most stable wood. Unless I know the owner of an orchard, it is probable that supplies will be ... absent. Then the price, ideally it should be a local wood, in the way that the price will be reasonable.
Once you have chosen a wood grain which would look good at scale, you have to test the properties of that wood and at the end, you will keep this wood in your list or not. Examples of what kind of properties you want to verify: workability and easy to sand ( the worst 2 woods that I tried are maple, it is much longer to sand and bloodwood, if you try to go too fast, it burns and makes the sanding paper dirty), stability, especially for all the framing. Staining, some wood are easily stainable others are not.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from mtaylor in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
hardwood, if you use a softwood like cedar, you will get a fuzzier model. If you look a softwood to the microscope, there will be much more fuzziness than a hardwood.
this is why it is a personal choice
not desirable oil and glue are no friends
I would consider the properties of this wood like a softwood.
As I said, your personal choice will be the final judge, and if you choose a soft wood, you will succeed but you would get much better results with a fruitwood.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Bob Cleek in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Don Case asked is there some basic rules? Here are some to begin:
The quest to find the most suitable wood is a story which can last many years. The first step is visual. If we divide in 2 groups painted or unpainted model. If you choose unpainted model, then the wood grain is more important.
You look the wood species available and you try some. The word available is important. Apple wood has a nice scaled down grain, the color is perfect but It is not the most stable wood. Unless I know the owner of an orchard, it is probable that supplies will be ... absent. Then the price, ideally it should be a local wood, in the way that the price will be reasonable.
Once you have chosen a wood grain which would look good at scale, you have to test the properties of that wood and at the end, you will keep this wood in your list or not. Examples of what kind of properties you want to verify: workability and easy to sand ( the worst 2 woods that I tried are maple, it is much longer to sand and bloodwood, if you try to go too fast, it burns and makes the sanding paper dirty), stability, especially for all the framing. Staining, some wood are easily stainable others are not.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Duanelaker in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Because the question of choosing which wood to use for model ship building comes and comes again, I wanted to write another page about it.
At the end, the choice you will do will be a personal choice as many activities like you can prefer to cut a plank with a hand saw or an electric saw. There is no good or bad choice, it is a strictly a personal choice guided by our preferences.
Here is why I chose cherry wood to be the only wood I use for model ship building.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Tim Holt in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Thank you guys for your inputs.
Yellow cedar, may be I could get from British Columbia, it would be expensive to ship in Quebec but the look of the grain is interesting
Maple, very easy to get here in Quebec. I think I would need to get lucky to get a nice batch. The problem is the large spacing between each year which I think is larger than cherry. In comparison sanding maple and cherry are 2 different world.
We have 3 different opinions and cherry is in everyone list. I remember very well in 2013, I did participate in a kind of contest for model ship builders. Here is what a judge wrote about cherry: ''The biggest issue with this model was the choice of wood used. In many cases, the grain appeared out of scale. Reading the rest of his comments, it was very clear that it was impossible to satisfy this gentleman; but he was not completely wrong. If I had 1 question for him; it would have been: if cherry was wrong, then which wood would have been right?
Exactly as Chuck and Jaager previously wrote, we must carefully select the boards we are going to use.
Here is an example of cherry wood enhanced with tung oil. Although I am probably more selective today, and I could even get a step higher in the quality control to select ''the perfect look wood'', all along the cutting procedure from a 2 by 12 inches up to few millimeters thick.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Larry Cowden in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
hardwood, if you use a softwood like cedar, you will get a fuzzier model. If you look a softwood to the microscope, there will be much more fuzziness than a hardwood.
this is why it is a personal choice
not desirable oil and glue are no friends
I would consider the properties of this wood like a softwood.
As I said, your personal choice will be the final judge, and if you choose a soft wood, you will succeed but you would get much better results with a fruitwood.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Larry Cowden in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Because the question of choosing which wood to use for model ship building comes and comes again, I wanted to write another page about it.
At the end, the choice you will do will be a personal choice as many activities like you can prefer to cut a plank with a hand saw or an electric saw. There is no good or bad choice, it is a strictly a personal choice guided by our preferences.
Here is why I chose cherry wood to be the only wood I use for model ship building.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Duanelaker in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Thank you guys for your inputs.
Yellow cedar, may be I could get from British Columbia, it would be expensive to ship in Quebec but the look of the grain is interesting
Maple, very easy to get here in Quebec. I think I would need to get lucky to get a nice batch. The problem is the large spacing between each year which I think is larger than cherry. In comparison sanding maple and cherry are 2 different world.
We have 3 different opinions and cherry is in everyone list. I remember very well in 2013, I did participate in a kind of contest for model ship builders. Here is what a judge wrote about cherry: ''The biggest issue with this model was the choice of wood used. In many cases, the grain appeared out of scale. Reading the rest of his comments, it was very clear that it was impossible to satisfy this gentleman; but he was not completely wrong. If I had 1 question for him; it would have been: if cherry was wrong, then which wood would have been right?
Exactly as Chuck and Jaager previously wrote, we must carefully select the boards we are going to use.
Here is an example of cherry wood enhanced with tung oil. Although I am probably more selective today, and I could even get a step higher in the quality control to select ''the perfect look wood'', all along the cutting procedure from a 2 by 12 inches up to few millimeters thick.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Jaager in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
hardwood, if you use a softwood like cedar, you will get a fuzzier model. If you look a softwood to the microscope, there will be much more fuzziness than a hardwood.
this is why it is a personal choice
not desirable oil and glue are no friends
I would consider the properties of this wood like a softwood.
As I said, your personal choice will be the final judge, and if you choose a soft wood, you will succeed but you would get much better results with a fruitwood.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from popash42 in 74-gun ship by Gaetan Bordeleau - 1:24
Hi Marc,
The best pictures I have:
1 and 2 Frégate Néréide 1720
3,4 unknown
5
Here is my guess. Before and after 1700 the shell would be wood and the inside bricks, metals parts came later, I would say after 1750.
The stove was not that big. It was not made to feed everybody, only the officers.
The location looks like to always be beneath the forecastle.
In 1780 the 74 guns had a copper sheet above the stove with 2 chimneys but not in 1680.
I would be caucious with Lemineur. I used his drawings for the frames of the 74 and he changed many parts shapes for obscures reasons. Trying to answer questions before 1700 is often a guess, and the beauty of it, is that everybody can imagine what he wants, no one will come to contredict him.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Jim Rogers in What would you recommend for a workbench for disabled person who can only sit??
The first tool I would buy in fact would not be a workbench. , I prefer an electric adjustable height table. You can find at different prices and relatively low prices.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in 74-gun ship by Gaetan Bordeleau - 1:24
Hi Marc,
The best pictures I have:
1 and 2 Frégate Néréide 1720
3,4 unknown
5
Here is my guess. Before and after 1700 the shell would be wood and the inside bricks, metals parts came later, I would say after 1750.
The stove was not that big. It was not made to feed everybody, only the officers.
The location looks like to always be beneath the forecastle.
In 1780 the 74 guns had a copper sheet above the stove with 2 chimneys but not in 1680.
I would be caucious with Lemineur. I used his drawings for the frames of the 74 and he changed many parts shapes for obscures reasons. Trying to answer questions before 1700 is often a guess, and the beauty of it, is that everybody can imagine what he wants, no one will come to contredict him.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from mtaylor in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Because the question of choosing which wood to use for model ship building comes and comes again, I wanted to write another page about it.
At the end, the choice you will do will be a personal choice as many activities like you can prefer to cut a plank with a hand saw or an electric saw. There is no good or bad choice, it is a strictly a personal choice guided by our preferences.
Here is why I chose cherry wood to be the only wood I use for model ship building.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Roger Pellett in In search for the perfect wood for the North American model ship builder
Because the question of choosing which wood to use for model ship building comes and comes again, I wanted to write another page about it.
At the end, the choice you will do will be a personal choice as many activities like you can prefer to cut a plank with a hand saw or an electric saw. There is no good or bad choice, it is a strictly a personal choice guided by our preferences.
Here is why I chose cherry wood to be the only wood I use for model ship building.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in 74-gun ship by Gaetan Bordeleau - 1:24
What goes well for yesterday photos set up, strangely it is easier to take deep inside photo without flash, only with LED lights.
Today's photos, again the key factor is the LIGHTING more than the camera. For interior photos of today, a smaller camera was used.
Which of these camera will gives the better result: a phone, or one action camera? Action camera is the good answer. I have been experimenting for years "small cameras". The first one was a Microsoft 1080p, up to the last one in 2020, a 4K Yi camera. Today the small camera used was a Go Pro. As with every camera, there is a learning curve, and I am still learning this one, but the results look like promising.
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