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    Looking at my last post I see it was on the 21 November 2020, time flys Most of the intervening months were spent remodelling the garden. What started as a small deck build mushroomed into a total revamp of the outdoor areas. Build on Winnie has been slow but productive. I made the decision early on to limit the amount of painting, relying instead on using different timbers to highlight the beauty of Chucks design. Timber varieties would be limited to AYC, Cherry, Boxwood and Kauri. The photos show how progress has been. Now its onto the hair brackets.
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    Good find, please let us know how it works out.
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    Just took delivery of this saw (6 weeks shipping to New Zealand) Very pleased with the tool feels like a quality build and as James wrote “very sharp”
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    They look the part to me, 👍 its very easy to get hung up on these smaller details.
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    Perfection, as usual 😇😇😇
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    Thanks Chuck.
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    Thanks Jim, it is the printed frieze along the hair bracket I was after. Searched all over but must have a blind spot.
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    Looking really good Jim, I like the way the bow timbers turned out. Could you tell me where to find the frieze for the head? thanks.
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    Thanks Timmo, too busy in the garden at this time of year to spend time on Winnie, progress is being made but very slooowly.
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    Ingenious🤗
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    Terrific work there Bob, I sympathise with you about what to do now having been in a similar situation waiting for chapter four parts to arrive, took 5 weeks so I got stuck in and made up the cannon carriages. You might consider buying the kits that Chuck sells, that would keep you out of mischief for a few weeks. Just a suggestion 😉
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    Hi Erik, Total cost to date (chapters one through to four) including shipping is $1938.58 nzd. Keep in mind this has been spread out over nearly a year. I find Chuck’s shipping prices very reasonable and please remember whatever you buy from Chuck is of the very highest quality and backed up by service second to none.
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    Thanks for the comments and reactions, always gratifying. Guillermo, I used the 1 15/16” and 1 9/16” from Chuck these being the closest in size to the drawings. No finish, used as they came except for trimming the trunnions to length and removing the odd piece of flash.
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    Ship building on steroids😁 its amazing how quickly your Winnie is coming along. Looking really good.
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    Whilst waiting for chapter four parts to arrive (5 to 8 weeks delivery time) I decided to put my newly purchased Proxxon mill to use (mainly to learn how to use it) The first project was to cut the hole in the stern, then using the mill to make the components for the rudder. Took a few attempts but am generally pleased with the outcome. I found the pintles the most difficult part to get right. Following on from this I tackled the cannons having purchased the resin barrels from Chuck some time ago. I initially made them from AYC but wasn't too happy with the results. My next attempt was with the local native timber Kauri. This timber is easy to work and takes a nice finish. There is still some work to do on these pending the arrival of materials from the U.S. Meanwhile I am tackling the capstan, then onto chapter four.
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    A thing of beauty.
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    You must be pleased with the result of your hard work, its looking great👍👍👍
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    Flawless 😇
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    Hi Fred, Thanks for the comment. After much searching I found a place in Canada that would ship to NZ via UPS. Had to take a second mortgage to pay the shipping but feel the results speak for themselves (the joy of living at the bottom of the planet🥴) Strange that most retailers wont ship stuff like this. I see that both Amazon and eBay sell it in the UK but seem to be out of stock. best of luck.
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    That looks very good.
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    When I get this kind of problem I find that most of them can be sorted by deleting the cookies for the site in question, worth a shot.
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    Not much help but it works fine on the iPad.
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    Very clever solution to the problem👌
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    That is looking so good Rusty, the combination of the timber colours are nicely complimentary to each other, your workmanship is the kind of standard I work for. Re your window problems, I damaged two of them before taking steps to make life easier. Firstly I removed the windows from the sheet they are cut from. Glue a piece of card on the back of the sheet making it into a tray to hold the frames. Finally I placed the frames on a piece of glossy card and gave them all a drink of WOP. This seems to lock the fibres together making the frames lots stronger, the frames wont stick to the glossy card if you move them every so often, simply replace the dry frames into the tray for safe keeping. Hope this helps🤔
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    Thanks for the comments Mathias, the columns are turned from a piece of gunmetal that I had left over from my model engineering days. Gunmetal is a form of bronze and is very easy to machine, it takes on a golden colour that will compliment the yellow cedar.

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