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westwood
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Wow that looks great Chuck. Another reason why I would like to go into this project.
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Thanks for the comments and likes guys, Especially now that I wasn't doing so well and progress was minimal. I kept toying with the idea of doing something with the friezes. I thought about editing in PC, but I'm not a graphic designer and I couldn't do it. It would take experience with graphics and a graphics tablet would probably be useful. Then I thought what about getting some waterslide decals made. Expensive and uncertain result. Today I tried hand painting but I'm not a cartoonist either, and my magnifying glass isn't strong enough. And I also don't have such micro brushes yet How the hell did they do it at the time? So I guess I gave up, and today I put the first friezes in place. What do you think?
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Beautiful work Matt and btw I like the simulation of the iron on the stove.
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You're doing great, Rusty, Fingers crossed for the final and looking forward to the gallery.
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I'm speechless Glenn, beautiful work. Also starting to shape all those eyelet and ring bolts...
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beautiful and inspiring, congratulations, but the cannon rigging...wow, I'm not even going to try to imitate that.
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After a long time, longer than I thought at least the photos how it looks after applying WOP...
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Wow beautiful photos Glenn. Thank you for showing them to us
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You're going brilliantly Chuck. And that template will really help a lot.
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Hi Jim, I'm building a cherry version too. I would also like a wax or Tung oil finish. It really is not only a beautiful finish but I like the smell of it too. But from a practical aspect, I finally used the classic WOP. I was thinking that it would be difficult to glue other parts to an oiled surface. I just applied the first coat yesterday and it looks nice. After application, the color of the wood became quite rich. One or two more coats and then I'll take pics. Also, it depends what version of cherry wood you use. My laser cut parts from Chuck are darker colored and for planking I used a lighter cherry . You'll see it better when you make a few planks to use for the planking. But I'm just a beginner at this...
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Perfect Mike, nice start to the planking. I'm curious to see the progress and how it will look in the boxwood.
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Beautiful Gary, congratulations on completing the planking. And yes one hard part is done and more to come. But that's the fun of this project.
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Hi my friends, I can finally show a little - big progress. Before gluing the moldings I moved away from the plans and assembled the channels to prepare them for later fitting on the model. And then I glued the middle moulding first and then the bottom one. I chose this method and the friezes I'll try to glue in the end. But before that happens, I've done what I've been looking forward to for many months.
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Congratulations on finishing Winie Mike. Beautiful and clean work, a level hard to match for me. So thank you for the whole "building log" which will serve as an inspiration for me for a long time to come. And I also keep my fingers crossed in the next project which I will like to follow as well.
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Nice going Frank. This is a difficult passage but you're mastering it perfectly.
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Superb deck Glenn, congratulations and I look forward to the next chapter in your work
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It's a pleasure to watch your build Siggi, looks amazing. Awesome detail, you are a perfect craftsman.
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great photo of perfect work. just super Mike
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Thanks guys, so I'm going for it, wish me luck. Still the scrapers, I'll just repeat what I wrote on the previous page: I made the scraper from a razor knife freehand with diamond discs and with a magnifying glass. Profil was continually tested and fine-tuned. And the fancy mouldings are scraped with freehand too. No other special tool. But as I wrote I used pear wood. Because in cherry the scraper tended to float and the thickness wasn't consistent either. So harder wood is probably better. Also, the width of the scraper profile must match the width of the prepared strip.
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Thanks for the compliments guys. I've scraped off the other moldings and I'm just one step away from gluing them in place. But I still have my doubts. The thing is it's a bit wider than the monograph mentions. I stayed with Chuck's earlier idea of making the bottom molding wider. So the result that the top is 2.5 mm the middle almost 3 mm and the bottom 3.17 mm. What do you think ? I also made a scraper for the top molding for homogeneity and I will use probably only the finely cleaned spiral laser cut.
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Beautiful result Jim, congratulations. And It's also nice to add a crew.
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wow you're off to a good start Rob. It's great that you are able to make the plans in CAD, for me it is a totally unknown.
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With each update I like it more and more Chuck.
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Hi guys, just a little push forward, I put down the shingles, then I used 3mm masking tape to test the run of the central moulding, then I formed the support strip for more comfortable installation - gluing molding strip (at least I hope so) and finally I tried to make a scraper with a suitable profile. I'll see tomorrow if I still like it or if I'll change it. the friezes on the photo are just test in a wrong colour
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wow, that's beautifully crafted Frank 👍
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