JeffT
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My Alert kit arrived today. The box survived the long journey and was in good shape. Everything inside the box looks excellent and I love the instructions. -
Mischief managed. It was more difficult than I expected. The hook is in a little too far in the block and is blocking the hole near the hook on the blocks. It took some work but finally got the rigging through. Luckily the wire is soft and I was able to drill through it with a mini drill bit. I suspect I'm going to have this problem with more of my blocks with hooks installed. Live and learn.
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Thanks Thomas. That makes sense. Luckily only two guns need fixed.
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I used CA to glue the carriages to the deck.
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The warner blocks only had one set of holes to pass through. If that's the right way to do it then I'll have to fix that.
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Finally an update! I've been working multiple projects so progress is a little slow. I managed to get all the hooks on the blocks. I ended up drilling them since Chucks blocks were a lot easier to drill. I had to figure out a way to hold everything in place while I drilled. I ended up using a vice with hemostats and an alligator clip to hold the blocks. I tried to use just the hemostats at first but they clamp to tightly and end up breaking blocks. I don't want to bore you with a bunch of rigged gun picks but here is where I am at the moment. Here is my setup: Here I finished rigging the first gun. You can see the difference between the warner blocks on the left and Chucks blocks on the right. Chucks blocks have nicer detail IMHO and are easier to work with, particularly when drilling. Two guns complete, twenty to go. I'm also working on installing the pin racks simultaneously. As you can see I have to pop out some of the rivets to install the racks. I need to touch up the paint there. Hopefully I can find the color since I no longer have any. I'm pretty sure it was either floquil or badger reading green. Hopefully I can still find some.
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I use UPS my choice.
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Mine says the 17th too but I'm skeptical, so we'll see. **Update: changed to the 20th. That seems more realistic.
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Thanks Chuck.
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Haha 🤣 They wouldn't dare since my face looked like this 😠 the rest of the night
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Order placed. I'll work this one after finishing the longboat.
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Hi Marcus. Welcome to MSW 🙂
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Hi all. I have assembled all the frames and dry fit everything together. I tried something a little different this time. I clamped the straight edge across the top timber instead of trying to hold it in place with one hand while trying to align the floors to the reference lines. Turns out its much easier that way. I would just loosen the clamp a little as needed to adjust the position of the straight edge when needed to get the two pieces aligned as close to perfect as possible. One of the problems I ran into the first time around was with the slot for the number 12 frame. I broke the little tip (circled in red in the picture) off twice when doing my test fit of the keel to the frames. This time I just left the 12th frame off and I'll place it when I do the final fit. Next, I'll reinforce the frames with packing tape and some wood strips. My work area is now a no-small children zone 🙂 There will be no more accidents.
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I build guitars, so why not model ships?
JeffT replied to cooltouch's topic in New member Introductions
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Hello and welcome to MSW
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Nice work on the bolsters. Coming along great!
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Hello and welcome to MSW
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Looks good.
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Okay, after a short break and acquiring some replacement parts, I'm back in the saddle on this build. This is the my replacement keel after assembly and a coat of wipe-on poly. The poly brings out the color and the grain of the wood nicely. I feel like my seams are a little tighter this time. Now its time to build some frames.
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It looks great!
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