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Keith Black
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Gary, I hope your family is enjoying the Last Dollar as much as I/we have. Merry Christmas to you and yours......Keith -
Blown away. I thought the capstan was the ultimate but the ship's telegraph is... is... is mind boggling.
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Thank you, Gary. I so appreciate you taking the time to show me "how to", your example looks great! I just had to dope slap myself because when I made the cask (as you can see in the picture in post #173 of the cask parts) I parted off the cask body, painted, and then added the banding instead doing all that when it was still on the stick. It was quit the challenge running the banding strips around that small cask body. Are you listening kids? Don't part the piece till you ABSOLUTELY have to! Which I know from past experience but totally ignored making the cask. Gary, Pat, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. And a heart felt "thank you" to all for the likes. I may not get another chance before the holidays so I'll say it now, To those here and to all those of the MSW community, have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May God bless each of you and your families, may you be safe and well!
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John, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.
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I'm dumbfounded, completely speechless. What a joy to be able to sit at my computer and admire your workmanship, Valerly.
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Are they used to pry the cannon up where the wedge can be inserted for the required elevation?
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A very Merry Christmas to you and yours, Keith. That's such great news about your daughter in law, hopefully your son is not far behind. God Bless.
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I quit vacuuming the inside of my truck years ago, no carpet, just a rubber mat sill to sill. I use the leaf blower, much simpler. Nice job on the canoe, Chris. You have many leisurely days out on the water to look forward to.
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Tom, you could hit it a couple of time with some #0000 steel wool, probably do more for you mentally than physically. Are you planning on painting or staining the hull? That might make a difference in how you treat the scroll work. Will the scroll work fill if you paint the hull and if you stain, will the area surrounding the scroll work take the stain the same as the rest of the hull? As far as not taking the stain the same it might make for a neat looking effect or vice versa. I've found that with stain I get one chance.
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Tom, yes, you're the older brother but I'm prettier. You where born in 43? Dad must have gotten leave in 42? Mom and Dad celebrated the end of the War like crazy and I was born in 47. We're both starting to get a bit long in the tooth, once this Covid nonsense is over we'll have to plan a family reunion.
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Yes they do, Eberhard. And you sir are a master of detail. Regarding actual photos, I agree. As far as my eyes, after being humped over the bench for a couple of hours I need to take a break and let my old eyes rest. But I rejoice for what vision I have for there are those who suffer far worse than I. Tom, do you have lots of money because if you do, I'm your brother Dad never told you about. In my previous post I failed to say "thank you" for all for the likes and kind words. Thank you.
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I got the the sea chest that I think held the sextant and ship's telescopes made. It went under the port side stern deck ladder. Nothing fancy and not my best work but it's mostly hidden from view.
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Brian, it's probably going to come down to your personal preference or coin toss. I can't see the Navy taking the extra time/money to paint the hull below the waterline red when that didn't seem to be the practice with wood hulls of that era. You're doing such a nice job on your Cairo I don't think anyone is going to challenge whatever hull color scheme you chose.
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HMCSS Victoria 1855 by BANYAN - 1:72
Keith Black replied to BANYAN's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
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It will/would work. You'ed need registration holes in all the disk where they would align correctly when gluing them up. Keith, thank you for taking the time to think out a solution and sketch it out. Ignore something you've taken the time to do for me? Never in a million zillion years.
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Tally Ho by jwpage - Scale 1:16
Keith Black replied to jwpage's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1901 - Present Day
JW, are you using K&S Metals? Price list from K&S Metals.......https://www.ksmetals.com/price-list Sales email........sales@ksmetals.com Website.........ksmetals.com -
Noooooo, you don't have to but.... Thank you answering the question, Keith. I find it hard to believe that line wasn't in ridge conduit?
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Tally Ho by jwpage - Scale 1:16
Keith Black replied to jwpage's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1901 - Present Day
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Eberhard, thank you for the suggestion. I'll keep this in mind as I pursue a solution. I've positioned the 1.0 water cask on the deck. Seeing them in situ my disappointment has lessened, at this moment I have mixed feelings. Here are some deck photos showing the water cask.
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Mark, I'm not going hit the like button but I do feel your pain. Rub some dirt on it and get back in there.
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Normally I'd PM Keith and exchange ideas there but this is a build log. So, at the chance of boring some of you to tears, I'll bat this birdie back and forth here. I too often go off, make something and come back with a couple of photos of the finished piece. Due to my own self doubts and lack of modeling experience and abilities I don't feel like I have much to contribute to the forum with a "how to" when most here have much more experience and talent than I do. But this may help someone like myself so........I went off and had a conjure. A top, lid, and three bands all have to take place in two tenths of an inch vertical with a slight angle, widest point being at the bottom with a diameter of .3 inches. And the bottom, lid, and bands should stand proud of the cask body. Thinking on Keith's idea of stacking three black plastic disk alternated by two pieces of wood.......how do you keep from painting the black plastic when you paint the cask body? How do you turn and make the black plastic representing the bands stand proud of the cask body? Using a profile cutter is the only way I see to make the black plastic stand proud but how do you use a cutter when your lathe is a hand held drill? And use a cutter whose profile is just .2 inches in length. With the tools I have, I can't make this work. This would have to be turned on a lathe and that I don't have. I've thought that maybe the solution might be to just have the middle band and not the top and bottom bands. Let the card bottom and lid trick the viewers eye into seeing those as a combination of both bottom, lid, and bands. Then add the middle band and handles. I'm going to make a cask using this method and see how it looks. Keith, Eberhard, and anyone else (Pat, Gary) please join in and continue to share your thoughts and ideas, thank you.
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