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Keith Black
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Robin, welcome to MSW. Please start a build log and share your project with us.
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Park, lovey work and welcome to MSW.
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Gary, thank you for your kind words. A thank you to all for the likes. Keith, it's the Pilot ladder used by the Harbor Pilot to clamber aboard. Of all the Pilot ladders I've seen in photos, they're all at the stern starboard side. I don't know if it's a written or unwritten rule that's where the Pilot ladder is/was stationed but it makes sense in that, the Pilot boat would know exactly where to find the Pilot ladder even in the dark of night. In the first photo , the Pilot ladder can faintly be seen and in the second photo, just aft of the rudder, the Pilot ladder is barely visible.
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Gary, you forgot the most important items to bring along.......a brown bag lunch and a thermos of hot coffee! I've got an 8ft aluminum flat bottom boat and like you, I enjoyed finding remote areas in which to row, drift, and dream. Chris, I'm sure you're going to enjoy every second you're on the water in your beautiful canoe.
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Sigge, it's a lot of steps to get to the finished hinge but they come out looking great. True dedication.
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We've had your "little treat" on the ground for at least six weeks. I'm so tired of our biweekly "little treats" I could puke. If I could catch that pampered woodchuck I'd ring it's fuzzy neck!
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He'll be laying up a Vet body before we know it.
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I have faith in you brother Tom.
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I pray your father in law gets well soon and that your health returns to normal. Get well, we'll patiently wait for project updates.
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A single hole triangle shape made from card? Once CA is applied to card stock it looks and feels like plastic and it can be shaped with a file. Card (heavy paper) is made from wood, it's kinda traditional. That's what I tell myself with I have to resort to using card. Or you could consider using a bead.
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Thank you, Keith and thank you to all for the likes. The Pilot Ladder is done, it actually went better than what I thought it would. The steps are .3 x .1 and the holes for the thread are .025 The layout board used to set steps. I'll erase the lines and use again when it comes time to make the Jacob's Ladders. I've staged the ladder trying to show movement as if the Tennessee were underway. Tidied up the worktable as it's time to move aloft, making the yards is next. It seems like it's taken forever to get to this point. The next long term goal is the standing rigging with all the separate projects twixt here and there.
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Tom. looks great!
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Thank you, Keith and Pat for the comments and thank you to all for the likes. I reworked the stern ports and covers, they look better than they did but...... The closeup photo really shows the weakness of my efforts. Had I known (I should have known) how difficult carving the end grain was going to be, I think I would have left well enough alone and not tried to replicate them.
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Gary, thank you and thank you to all for the likes. I studied this photo for two years trying to make sense of what I was seeing and not seeing. It finally came time to try and replicate my interpretations. Some is "best guess" some is research, some is looking over the shoulders of my fellow MSW members, and some is from communication with Pat (BANYAN). Thank you, Pat. I wish there was an easier way to do chain work other than the "one link at a time" method I have to employ. Get it close, wire up the chain to it's end point, check droop and if not correct, cut wire and remove a link, and continue till the droop on both sides match. I attached the preventer chains and the emergency steering chains to the rudder first, permanently attached the rudder and then worked the chains to their end points. The front rudder (emergency steering) chains to the vertical capstan chain (there is a stop disk on the end to keep the rudder from being drawn to far to one side) and the rear rudder (preventer) chains to the hull. There is a rope ladder that hangs from starboard side stern, it's .25 inches wide and some three inches long. This is the final stern item, I've not much faith in my ability to make it, we'll see.
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Every son should have something of his father's work, to touch, to hold, to cherish, and to remember. I'll follow along with you on your journey, the very best to you........KB
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Allan, if that's not a candidate for "What Gets Your Goat" I don't know what is.
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Siggi Nice detail work making the port lids follow the hull profile, the Tiger is turning into a real beauty. The work crew must have had the day off?
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Chris, I'm sorry but I laughed like #ell because it sounds exactly like some of my learning experiences. Has Acetone become your best friend?
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