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  1. Jim Rogers
    All clove hitches from beginning to end secured with diluted white glue (PVA).
  2. Jim Rogers
    Beautiful work.
  3. Jim Rogers
    Make sure you post about the new Airport.
  4. Jim Rogers
    This is just me but I think that Fruitwood Gel Stain would make it all pop.
  5. Jim Rogers
    Looks beautiful Chuck, you Sir are a true craftsman. Wish I had a tenth of your talent. Will the frieze and these two figures be available when this chapter is issued?
  6. Jim Rogers
    Really. Never saw that before. Learn something new everyday.
  7. Jim Rogers
    You gonna lose the period?
  8. Jim Rogers
    Welcome Tom. I use Titebond thick set and CA dependent on the situation. Those little brass nails are a large PITA as they bend very easy and you usually need to predrill a hole. You also need to lay a pretty uniform pattern or it can look terrible, ask me how I know. What you need is a vast assortment of various types and sizes of clamps to hold your planks whilst the glue sets. You also need to learn how to bend planks
  9. Jim Rogers
    I like it.
  10. Jim Rogers
    Reg, I LOVE it. I have used the Amati Keel holder for all my builds and the Hobby Zone slip is magnitudes above. The Winnie is a beast, it fits very well with room to spare. Your ship locks solid and you can rotate 360 degrees if you have it mounted high enough. The screws that came with it were a tad short and would not tap into the secure nuts. You will have to get creative with attaching your ship after the stern is built all I did was remove the clamp, slide the base up to the stern, slipped in a piece of scrap and tightened her done worked great. The Hobbyzone Slip is a solid and very useful piece of kit. After cutting several strips with a band saw I just dropped the hammer on a Byrnes Saw as I did not like the blade marks on the strips and cutting those 1/64 strips for the Black Strake was a PITA. You can almost read a newspaper through those they are so thin so I am going to replace those with 1/32
  11. Jim Rogers
    The Syren instructions are a tutorial on model ship building.
  12. Jim Rogers
    Need new blades or sharpen old ones.
  13. Jim Rogers
    I call and talk to John directly. Never an issue.
  14. Jim Rogers
    Perfect!
  15. Jim Rogers
    My cedar billets arrived today. Thank you Chuck! Quite the surprise.
  16. Jim Rogers
    Beautiful work Mike.
  17. Jim Rogers
    Making slow progress
  18. Jim Rogers
    Check out Chuck’s jig in the Syren instructions online at ModelExpo.
  19. Jim Rogers
    Looks great Steve. I am just adding the battens on mine.
  20. Jim Rogers
    Anyone use a bandsaw for cutting strips? Seems it would be easier and more accurate than a mini table saw and having to move the fence for each cut.
  21. Jim Rogers
    I hear ya Jack. I wrote technical documentation for the Navy for ten years and bad documentation drives me nuts. I have gotten so frustrated on occasions I have actually rewritten instructions and sent them back to the companies. A major issue is they assume WRONGLY that everybody building their kits understands nautical terminology. Another issue is they provide terrible visual references with no identification in the written instructions which visual references apply to a step.
  22. Jim Rogers
    Chuck is there a reason bulkhead 29 is not added before fairing the hull?
  23. Jim Rogers
    Finished the bulkhead installation yesterday evening. Took three days. Started the fairing process expect an easy five to six days.
  24. Jim Rogers
    Chuck are you going to add color?
  25. Jim Rogers
    Paul, I am located in Bremerton drop me a PM if you are interested in dropping by......bacon not required.

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