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mischief

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  1. Get the Dr Slick fly tying scissors and use ONLY on thread.
  2. QA did you make that drill press,if so,who is your agent on this side of the pond? Very nice.
  3. Building & Detailing Scale Model Ships by Mike Ashey.Deals with modern war ships on building,detailing,scratchbuilding and modifying. ISBN 0-89024-240-2
  4. I have known of them,however have not bought since they use Pay Pal
  5. Tandy Leather now sells a safe contact glue,however,the Cow glue "Elmers" is great stuff
  6. I'm also of advanced middle age and have been subjected to the same phenomenon on ocasion
  7. Fly tying shops sell a very sticky wax for fly tying thread,if you want sticky
  8. Coat your thread/line several times with bees wax then heat it in the oven at a low temp."or" run the bees wax coated thread/line thru a pc of leather several times, the friction will do the same thing,only not a well,as the oven method.In other words same thing only different
  9. YO fellow Skipjack junkies,just recv.today the book "Chesapeake Sailing Craft" and it has a section of pictures on our beloved Skipjacks with a lot of detail with the vessels. Chesapeake Sailing Craft Recollections of Robert H. Burgess Expanded Edition . Log Canoes . Bugeyes . Pungies . Sloops . Two masted Schooners . Rams . Skipjacks . Three and four masted Schooners
  10. Will pop the cork on a bottle of fermented grape juice and anxiously await further developments. Whale boats are also on my bucket list.
  11. Druxey thank you for the information. I spent some of my youth at Niagra on the Lake on a cousins peach orchard. Jersey City Frankie the bullseyes are scale models of the real ones.....(They float) I was very lucky to be gifted a qty. of Ship modeling "STUFF" tools, books, parts,plans,paint,old kits,etc. My wife mentioned that I was starting to model ships and one of her friends offered her late husbands modeling stuff to me. I will be offering some of the items up for trade later.
  12. What and where are bullseye blocks used? Have been gift'd many and none of my ship modeling books give any help.
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