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Keith Black

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  1. Keith Black
    Tom, I love seeing the Sophie come to life.
  2. Keith Black
    Arthur, wishing you the best on your first steps into the world of wooden ship modeling. Building model ships is a lot like bird photography, it requires a tremendous amount of patience and never giving up.
  3. Keith Black
    Arthur, welcome to MSW. Very nice wildlife photography. I'll follow you along on your Bluenose build.
  4. Keith Black
    KJ, welcome to MSW. Your Bluenose II turned out great for a first time build but most importantly, you finished it, congratulations. I look forward to seeing your Endeavour in a build log.
  5. Keith Black
    Bill, I don't know if this helps? https://www.modelships.de/Soleil_Royal/Detailansichten_Soleil_Royal_I.htm
  6. Keith Black
    Or use a square jewelers file.
  7. Keith Black
    Todd, welcome to MSW. I look forward to seeing your Bluenose II in a build log.
  8. Keith Black
    Lynn, congratulations on the voluntary work at the course, free golf (or anything free these days) is treat. As to blackening. I've not had a great deal of success blackening with solutions though Casey has worked the best of any I've tried. As Brian suggested, the brass parts aren't clean enough? I now paint whatever I need blackened with black acrylic craft paint and once dry, I seal it with satin poly. If you paint be sure to clean the paint off the bottom of the cleats before gluing to the wood surface for better adhesion.
  9. Keith Black
    Chris, I thought that CA worked the best for bonding styrene to styrene? Not true??
  10. Keith Black
    Lynn, my apologies for not responding to your post sooner. It's neat that George Low was awarded the medal of Honor while serving aboard the Tennessee. In Marine bootcamp we were told all about the Marine Medal of Honor winners and the actions surrounding the Award. Years ago when I read about Low Jumping overboard to save a fellow crew member from drowning, it seemed pretty tame compared to the stories of Marine awardees. Unfortunately details of George Low's story are sparse in details. It was obviously a lot more harrowing than simply "jumping overboard". I wish I could find a detailed account of the incident. I keep a constant lookout for crew member letters and would rob the cookie jar if ever a logbook were to come up for sale. Fat chance! Simon, thank you so very much. Current shipyard activity is limited to stropping deadeyes. i can get into lacing deadeyes but stropping them just bores me to tears. Thank you to all for the comments, the likes and for following along.
  11. Keith Black
    Great profiling as usual, Siggi. Good to see a post from you, I thought the workers might have gone on strike.
  12. Keith Black
    Thank you, Andre. The lantern was a fun little project. I've enjoyed turning items on my poor man's lathe to the point where I've just about worn out the bearings in my drill. I thought about buying a lathe but it's hard to justify the cost for the few remaining years left to me for modeling. I'll continue to use the drill for turning till the end. Wishing you the best on your lantern and the Swift.
  13. Keith Black
    Nice to see a post of your usual beautiful work.
  14. Keith Black
    Is Shiloh going to be part of the family or is there a dark side to Shiloh's future?
  15. Keith Black
    I see, you can carve a real nice eagle but a penguin, oh heck no. The quarter gallery windows look great! How's baby Bevo?
  16. Keith Black
    Sam, welcome to MSW. Wishing you the very best with your project.
  17. Keith Black
    Did you order it off eBay because the eBay delivery is by April 18th?
  18. Keith Black
    Glenn, I agree with Roger, sometimes less is more. But I was looking for micro mesh and found the below. This is some pretty small stuff or so it appears plus the color works. https://www.ebay.com/itm/80-304-Stainless-Steel-Filter-Coarse-Dense-Gauze-Woven-Mesh-13-x-40-/393850633101
  19. Keith Black
    Mark, the stove looks great! What bad vision?
  20. Keith Black
    Ian, welcome to MSW. Good to have you aboard.
  21. Keith Black
    Tin, welcome to MSW. Hopefully you get all your questions answered on your Victory and are able to complete her successfully.
  22. Keith Black
    And not all cotton thread is created equal.
  23. Keith Black
    The problem with cotton line is its fuzzy and it deteriorates rather rapidly. Adding beeswax only increases the deterioration process. I've worked on models that are twenty years old and the lines were already rotten. For these reasons I only use polyester thread. Polyester may stretch a bit more than cotton but I'd rather see a bit of droop than completely parted lines. Museums are even using polyester thread in some of their model restorations.
  24. Keith Black
    SU, you should be happy with your first results.
  25. Keith Black
    Su, in my post #352 I showed how I strop blocks.

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