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Paul, The danger with pencil lead is that you drag it on to the adjacent planking so you essentially get a bleeding effect. If you do try pencil lead then I suggest you do so post varnishing, this will reduce any bleeding. Personally I'd go with tree nails, trennels, or trunnels - however you want to pronounce it Regards Gary
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Hi Jbwok, I've been watching yours and StuartC's build logs having started Warrior myself, having looked at the gap between frames I've started in-filling below the main gundeck between frames with balsa blocks to get past the problems your facing. As I have a way to go and haven't started planking yet it's too early to draw a comparison or if to know it will work. I'll try and get round to a build log over the Easter break so there is another approach to compare. I'm also looking to open up the citadel and rig it with the 68 Pounders and the Armstrong guns, and leave a semi open upper deck so you can see the detail. One problem I have found is that the kit supplied 110 PDR Armstrong guns are 4mm short at scale when compared to the detailed drawings Lavery has in his book HMS Warrior, so the scale is off. Aesthetically for the 2 upper deck guns I don't think it will matter, but I could come up short in the citadel if I replicate the kit guns as they will hardly protrude through the gun ports. Gary -
Welcome onboard Sargofagus, I'm looking forward to seeing your work and that of your colleagues. It's a couple of years since I made it from the other side of the town to the Headland (where the Heugh Battery is situated for those non Hartlepudleans!), and will have to call in to take a close look at your restoration project if that is OK. Gary
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I've thought on it Jay, and when I've compiled my list I'll be bold, up front and honest about it - I'll send her an email when I'm away on business Gary
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Thanks Jay, A good reminder to all of us, I guess I've a few thousand invested on the book shelves when I sit back and think on it, and it is an investment worth protecting. Also a good idea on letting the other half know of that investment sat on those shelves (just in case), trouble is I dont know how she will take to me sharing that value - I'm sure she doesnt know the half of what I've spent!over the years! Gary
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Geoff, Knees, breast hooks, and other curved pieces (such as frame components) were selected and cut from the forms that trees naturally took on as they grew, so a knee for example may be cut from the junction of the trunk and a branch thereby taking advantage of the strength in the natural wood form. There wasn't any manipulation of tree forms as they grew, just a good eye from the shipwrights to pick out the potential uses from the trees on offer. That is why as stocks of timber grew scarce in the UK iron knees and fastenings were increasingly in use from the latter part of the 18th century. Gary
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