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  7. tmj
    Nobody can tell you what you are truly capable of accomplishing... not even yourself! If you find something that you like, "Go for it!" Take your time and advance your skills as you go. Practice any new operations that you are unsure about using scrap materials first. Odds are that you'll do just fine on any model that you choose! Confidence is a big thing, and confidence comes from building upon past accomplishments via new endeavors. Don't view the somewhat more advanced skill level of the Syren as something to be afraid of... see it as your newest achievable 'goal' to take on! 🙂 "Our doubts are traitors that make us lose the good that we oft might win by our fears to even attempt!" ... William Shakespeare
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  18. tmj
    It looks as though you are going to lose your centerline at the stern which is going to force you to reshape the bottom back there making it 'lopsided'. Have you taken measurements back there? I think I'd order a new bottom and save a lot of grief.
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  21. tmj
    Simply 'Fantastic' craftsmanship!
  22. tmj
    Great job, Giampiero! Your work is very beautiful!
  23. tmj
    If it were 'me'... I'd have designed those wings so that they could be quickly removed for battle and bad weather! 🫤
  24. tmj
    My sentiments, exactly! Great job, Glen!
  25. tmj
    I don't know if this is true, but I read somewhere that while in port ships were often docked with their bow facing into the wind, if possible, for various reasons. If this is true your constitution is parked backwards, evidence via the direction that the flags are blowing. 😐
  26. tmj
    Homemade Chisels?
  27. tmj
    Nice carving detail!
  28. tmj
    I'd hit the like button, but I don't really like this this sort of thing at all. "Fingers are crossed!"
  29. tmj
    Really nice-looking, clean, crisp model! Good job! So.... what's 'next'?
  30. tmj
    Progress has been slow due to the laser breaking and preventing me from cutting my finished frame sanding templates, but all is well now. I cut 4 templates yesterday. There will be 18 sets of frames to sand, so I cut 4 templates to prevent me from sanding away the edges of any one template and creating inaccurately shaped parts. I used stainless steel to make sure my templates don't rust should it take me a while to sand all of the frames. I'll attach the template to the laminated frames with either 2-sided tape, or rubber cement if the tape doesn't hold well enough. Here's one of the sanding templates. Here's a sanding template laid atop a laminated frame set. There's quite a lot of meat to lose, but that was necessary in order to produce the effect of longitudinal grain inside a hand hewn 'bent' timber. They are also taller than needed. As mentioned earlier, these laminated pieces will each make two frames once split in two. I'll rough cut with a bandsaw, then sand the frames to the template shape using my new Ultimate sander. No mess, no noise... I'll be able to comfortably sand frames while sitting at the island watching TV! There should be no noise coming from the Mrs. either! *Fingers Crossed*
  31. tmj
    Best wishes and prayers to ya Keith!
  32. tmj
    Nah, not right now. All the local flies disappeared from Dallas so Ribbit caught a Greyhound to Florida for the winter.

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