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  1. Dave_E
    Hi Tim, Welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  2. Dave_E
    Now that is cool! Really impressive Glen. 👍😀
  3. Dave_E
    Welcome Andre! I am an ex-RC helicopter enthusiast… got to expensive for me. Excellent choppers! 👍😀
  4. Dave_E
    Hi Will, nice to meet you. 👍😀
  5. Dave_E
    Welcome to the forum! Do you have a name we may call you to go along with that neat handle? 😀
  6. Dave_E
    Hey Ed, I have an old airplane iron, and my wife gave me a couple spare hair curling irons (smooth type). When I’m bending my guitar sides, I soak the wood pretty good and then it goes into a heated bending jig. For the water ways I will be using one of the curling irons… bend and check, bend and check. When it’s time to start any planking… search the forum for instructions on plank bending. Make yourself a jig and get a small travel iron or the like. Don’t even need to wet the wood! I don’t want to hijack your thread and turn it into plank bending, but I know of 4 different ways to do planking. If you search the build logs, you’ll see all of them. Decide on what you like and go for it. However…. I’m here to tell you the dry heat bending does work pretty slick. Look at Glenn Barlows work.
  7. Dave_E
    Did you try heat on that wet wood, it will bend like a pretzel.
  8. Dave_E
    Thanks Jim! 😀
  9. Dave_E
    I’m waiting for this answer as well! 😉
  10. Dave_E
    Hey Dave, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  11. Dave_E
    REAL NICE Ed! Your setting the bar pretty high. 👍😀
  12. Dave_E
    Hi Ray, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  13. Dave_E
    Some serious craftsmanship going on here! 👍😀
  14. Dave_E
    Hey BG, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  15. Dave_E
    I just watched your video with 3 grandchildren who wanted to watch how you get a ship in the bottle. 👍😀
  16. Dave_E
    Hi Wolff, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  17. Dave_E
    Hi Charlie, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  18. Dave_E
    Outstanding! Nice collection. 👍😀
  19. Dave_E
    Hi Mike, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  20. Dave_E
    Be safe Bob, take care of your wife. Prayers for your family. 🙏
  21. Dave_E
    Nice work! I’m pretty sure whatever my next ship is… it will be a 1:48 scale. 😀
  22. Dave_E
    Looks good Ed! You are now a building resource of knowledge for those of us not as far along as you. Outstanding explanations of your process, thank you! 👍😀
  23. Dave_E
    Hey Chuck, Welcome to the forum. Bump everything these guys have already said. 👍😀
  24. Dave_E
    Hey Ed, Check out my post #93. After completing the bulkheads and making the transom carvings… that stern piece did not fit. I studied the drawings and came to the conclusion if I just put it in position, it would be way to low on the bottom. I goofed something or the drawings aren’t 100%. More than a couple of views on the drawings are “view” only and not to scale and that didn’t help me with the fitting problems. So I downsized the stern piece to fit, that’s why my Britannia seems to “fit”. So… when I get into one of these predicaments (it happened on my lady Nelson also), I do some engineering. When the ship is launched, only a fellow builder of this ship might notice a minute deviation from the drawing. If your stern wood fits per drawing, Jim’s suggestion is good. 👍
  25. Dave_E
    After studying some more… did any of you other MS builders get this piece in your kit? Nothing mentioned anywhere that I can find.

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