Steve 12345
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Is that drawing to scale derek hold two together and see if they make the correct thickness sometimes kits will require you to laminate pieces together -
Definitely some kind of lighting mike I placed a wheel in mine with a dashboard but its difficult to see , I did buy a bulb and a aa battery pack hoping it would fit in the engine room but it wouldent fit and to date I pursued the light no further
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Hi derek I'm not a big fan of keel clamps I like to use an old pillow and I can throw the ship about on that to any direction I need , each to there own just something to consider
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Of coarse making a part from a john mckay plan and marrying it up to the billings version may conflict a bit if others also would like to give there thoughts in happy to redo the part
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Thanks Brian I'll throw up a picture of the plan I'm always open to suggestions or redo,s
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Here's some pics of the flag locker and how I went about constructing it ,it still needs a door and the rudder head housing to sit in front of it im just interested in what you guys feel about the proportions of the locker
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Thanks ej the colour sure is growing on me just like S.Coleman said it would I'm currently scratch building the flag locker based on john mckay book hope to get some pics up tomo
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And here she is with the bulwarks and handrails complete, for the deck furniture im going to order some ladders and gratings and a new ships wheel so in the mean time it is time to tackle building my own transom decorations and flaglocker
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I was very impressed with the mantua version I would really like to try the Caldercraft version but would it be worth the investment?
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Thanks also Doug I found the speed of my build came with the inexperience it was pretty hard to overthink things I knew nothing about anyway and regardless to the size of the thing it's still a ship and even a small ship build has all the same processes such as planking copper playing rigging etc. A small ship has just as much work just a large ship your stuck on the same stage for a we while longer
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WRsparky if I'm reading correctly my build was shown to members in a club in Atlanta wow I'm honoured your post made my day thank you and made the time it took to upload the log worthwhile good luck with your victory build and please share thanks steve
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hi mark that's a very good idea that's what I do with my full size table saw unfortunately doug is using the small proxxon ks230 that doesent have an insert to replace
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Doug something else I may suggest this evening I needed some material about 1.3x.7 this eliminates the thinist cut last theory there both thin,so what I did do was create zero clearance on the saw this is where you set rip fench to desired then run a larger sacrificial piece into the blade and clamp it down then when you run your veneer it will not get pulled down into the gap around the saw blade
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Really like the stained deck Doug
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I see left out some of the joints in the planking and I see your theory behind it however just to throw a spanner in the works yes there would have been long enough planks to cover some of the distances but what did they then do with the offcuts
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Looking good derek it looks like you have taken all the laser cut marking off on each bulkhead so you are definitely close
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At a boy looking forward to the pictures
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cut 12mm off your 5mm x50mm by 300mm long stock you now have a 5mm x12mm strip turn that into a 3mm x12mm strip on your saw throw away the offcut or keep as stock now rip .5 mm strips off your 3mm x12mm
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rather than buying veneer doug see if you can get stock machined to say 5mm by any width lets say 50mm and whatever length if you then want 5mm by 0.5mm your proxxon saw will easily rip these with no splitting or if you want 3mm by 0.5 simply rip 3mm off your 5mm by 50mm strip then rip it down to .5 if you didn't live on the other side of the pond id gladly machine you some stock
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I think the tyres will look great on it derek I fancied that idea myself also some life rings and possibly a flag
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