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KORTES

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  1. After consideration, I decided to glue using PVA glue. For several reasons - cyanoacrylate glue, even gel, binds very fastly, and I was afraid that the pin will be fastened sooner than it enters fully, on its full depth. The second reason is that once the cyanoacrylate glue is binded is gets very fragile and the junction may crack even at a slight bend. PVA glue is more flexible even after drying, and if there are few gashes on the pin it will hold tightly and more so as the binding time is long enough it allows to put the piece right in place. There’s only one thing bothering me - how much time does it take to bind inside the wood? Perhaps it would be better if i heat up the place where the pin is set? My best regards.
  2. I made a device for the axial drilling. I’ve managed to maintain a coaxial alignment. A pin is made from a nail.
  3. There was a small rounded cut in this palce, so that when painting the line dividing the colors was clearly difined.
  4. My hand had accidentaly got caught on the assembled fore-tompast stay. The outrigger remained in place , but the topmast didn't..
  5. Its good that I have made the topmast dismountable, just like on a real schooner. I haven't had any problems with the dismantlement. The knot has been disassembled.
  6. Now I understand the captain who loses the mast on the final stage of the regatta. Probably every modelist faces this kind of fail.
  7. And I also had to wind up the threads so they would match the scale, using the tool for winding cable.
  8. Greetings, dear Jan When I was working on the La Jacinthe, I was following the principle - all that I could make myself, was made by myself. The blocks were not an exception, so as the required number wasn't high, I made them myself. The exception were only 10 pieces of 2mm, that were too many to be made, so I had to buy them.
  9. I took photos of some parts of the reeved rigging, while the sails haven’t covered it. Some ropes haven’t been covered yet.
  10. It’s ready for the blackening. As I have made the anchors from steel, I used a weapon paste for blackening in order to restitute blueing
  11. I'm very grateful to you, dear colleagues, for you interest in my work, reviews and kind words. My best regards.
  12. The movable stock, for lack of a lathe, was sharpened with a drill. The ending thickenings were soldered with a further refinements.
  13. The paws were soldered with an ordinary solder,using acid, however, previously, it was necessary to heat up the horns and paws with a burner.
  14. My greetings, dear colleagues, I Submit for Your judgement anchors. I never did the casting, and after talking to my colleagues I realized that in order to obtain the desired result, among other things you need to get some practice ,through a system of trial and error for which time is needed. Therefore, after weighing everything, I decided to just cut the anchors, for the lack of brass, I used 3mm iron sheet. I had to make 4 pieces, taking my time I spent days on it. I used a cutting wheel, files, broaching file, a drill, of course, and the final stage a micro-drill.
  15. My greetings, dear colleagues, My work on the sails is coming to an end. After a series of trial and error I got almost two sets of sails. I present the final version. Material - cambric, painted with artistic oil paint diluted in white spirit. For the moment all that is left is to make a reef-band.
  16. I ‘ve choosen the technology of Dmitriy Shevelev for the fabrication. The second part was painted with desaturated bituminous varnish.
  17. Sails. No matter how much you study the experience of the Masters, you still make your own mistakes. I tried to dye the fabric in a folk way, in the broth of onion peel. I liked the color, but problems began later, when gluing. Thre was an unexpected reaction of the colored fabric and the glue MOMENT Carpenter. So the first set of fabric went to the bin.
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