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Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research
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Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917
If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.
The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.
Jet or Dewalt scroll saw
in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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The DeWalt scroll saw used to be good. When it was made in Canada. Then they moved the manufacturing to Taiwan and the quality slipped badly. I know because I had to order FOUR of them for my father (we had to return the first 3) before he got one that was manufactured correctly. These were not small problems either. Two of them had tables where the mounting holes were drilled so far off that table was mounted so that the blade hit the side of the hole in the table and there was no way to adjust it. At least now, the newer one has an adjustment for that to cover up the manufacturing problems. The DeWalt USA rep admitted there had been problems for months and he had 7 of them sitting in his office that had manufacturing defects. Then, a year or two later, they moved the manufacturing again... to China. Now these saws are complete junk and made poorly. Get the Jet 22 inch or the Pegas 21 inch, or possibly the Excelsior (made by the former maker of Excalbur) all made in the same factory in Taiwan. Any of these are light years ahead of the DeWalt. They also have a blade plumb adjustment to change the aggressiveness of the cut, which the DeWalt does not have. Of course, the Hegner is good as well.