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Making chainplates is easy enough and so are davit post for that matter. I've yet to reach the stage of adding davits to the Tennessee but like yourself I was somewhat dismayed in trying to come up a way of attaching the davits to the hull. I finally thought of using simple eye pins to hold the davits in place. It's often that the suggestion of a thing works better than trying to make the thing itself.
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Looks very nice, Bob. Great job.
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Vossie, I pray your back heals and returns to normal quickly.
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From one Keith to another Keith, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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At the start of you post I feared the worse but the above is fantastic news, Roel!
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Bob,I admire you rigging the yards with the mast attached to the ship and the stays already rigged. By doing it that I couldn't see anyway in the world I would have be able to get my hands into those hard to reach places without snapping lines. I rigged each mast off ship first then ran the stays. For me it's been much easier doing it that way plus I'm not having to stand over the ship.
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IMHO, both walnut and yellow wood blocks are too light in color and both need to be stained. Walnut will take stain easier but becomes too dark. Yellow wood blocks are harder to stain and require soaking in stain overnight. I like the irregularities yellow wood blocks have after staining and seem a little more realistic. Walnut blocks when stained become brown lumps, IMHO. I work at 1:120 so larger scaled blocks may (and I would expect) provide different results.
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Hello from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Keith Black replied to AboveTheWaterLine's topic in New member Introductions
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Ahh.....3D printing is the future of modeling and those that think otherwise have their heads buried in the sand. Just as I'm sure some modelers a hundred years ago thought power tools were the devil's own.
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Veszett, what dispute? No one is disputing Ian's use of 3D printing. As I said, "I don't disparage 3D printers, in fact I use 3D printed pieces parts sourced from suppliers. That's no different than if I was printing them myself. i admire folks like yourself who can master the printing process."
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Thank you, Keith Thank you, Eric. Thank you, Grant. Thank you, Bob. Thank you, Pat. Thank you, Glen. No, I'm not letting Goober and Pile play nursemaid. Thank you, Rick. Thank you, Kurt. Thank you, john. Thank you gentlemen for the well wishes and the likes. The range of motion in my left arm is getting better though I still have to get my right arm out of my coat first and a coat is definitely needed when I go out on the porch to smoke my pipe as it's a balmy -7 this am. I was able to get a couple of hours in on Lula last night, it felt good to make some progress. Hopefully I'll have some photographic evidence of progress in the next three or four days. Thank you to all for following along. Keith
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ian, I agree 100% with you. I don't disparage 3D printers, in fact I use 3D printed pieces parts sourced from suppliers. That's no different than if I was printing them myself. i admire folks like yourself who can master the printing process.
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Those of us without 3D printers and the ability to use them may as well be living in the stone age, Glen. But i look at it this way, I can't burn the house down with my flint knives.
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Wa, wa, wait a minute. Bob, don't you still need to rig the Duchess? Did I miss that part??
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