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    Druxey built the plug in two sections, David, not the model itself. The actual ship was built, clinker style, over the plug.
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    Sweet work Danny! I note that my cross-sections seem to be somewhat better than the full version.Perhaps you've upped your game similarly as a result of completing your fully framed model.
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    A scraper sounds like just the ticket to make that profile, Remco. Any problems using it on those curved bow sections?
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    Well done, Druxey. There's just something beautiful about a clinker planked hull. Perhaps it shows off the ships lovely lines better than carvel planking.
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    We all feel incredibly lucky that you decided to display your work here. I assume you do your own drafting for your CNC parts. Could you give us a sense of how long it takes to design the fly wheel in CAD and how long it takes to CNC produce them?
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    Enjoy your log Charlie. You know, I believe accurately shaping a solid, machine caved hull is much more difficult than building a plank on bulkhead model.
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    Brilliant, Ed. Even with your explanation I had to spend some time figuring how you went from photo one to two!
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    Love the detail under the hinged pillars where the deck is slope-mortised to allow them to fully extend. Never seen anything like this before but it makes perfect sense. Could you describe how you created the flange detail of the hawse tubes?
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    Great case and display, Maury!
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    Brilliant, Ed. I would have thought that forming the spokes and adding them later would have been the way to go but your method is both simple and elegant. Were there any issues with deflection of the disk while machining the spokes and boring the holes? Doesn't seem like a lot of contact between the jaws and the disk.
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    Just marvellous, Siggi. It reflects very favorably on Georgian/Navy Board contemporary models in museums. What's next in the Siggi shipyard?
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    Don't believe it, Maury. I've visited Druxey's workshop and you could do surgery there!
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    Cannon and carriages look very nice, Maury. I now use matte black automotive primer, several lightly sprayed coats, to blacken many of my brass items. It has the advantage of filling in small defects and blending mated parts into one. It also imparts a slight texture to the surface, which is reminiscent of iron.
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    Great video, Jay. Two small tips for novice machinists: 1. If you want to turn wood down to a very small diameter use an oversized piece of wood in the headstock and only work on small lengths (perhaps 1") at a time. The minimizes deflection. 2. When parting off small, repetitive pieces with a drilled out center (such as cannon wheels) insert a length of thin wire down the center with plenty of overhang. The wheel will stay on the wire when parted as opposed to flying across the workshop.
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    If there is a ship modeler who nailed the bollard timbers on the first attempt I'd like to shake his or her hand, Gary. Looks terrific no matter how many attempts it took. I don't know if it was in Ed's book or your idea, but installing the foremost cant frames now as you have done makes the fitting of the hawse timbers much easier and more accurate. Welcome to the "#11 stabbed-myself-with-a-blade-or-chisel club". As a multiple offender, I opine that there is no difference in outcomes between spending a day (and $'s) at an ER with painful lidocaine injections and sutures vs. closing the wound with a bandaid so long as the wound edges are in contact. Unless, of course, you are a hand model.
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    At last - a Druxey build log! Between this one and Glen's we get to see how professional ship model makers approach our hobby.
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    It looks like a floating bathtub, yet you've managed to make it beautiful. Is your lab webcam permanently disabled. It was fascinating watching you build in real time.
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    Beautiful, Dan. Makes me wish you had taken and posted higher resolution photos here. Isn't ther also a model of Boston in the Smithsonian Museum by Robert Bruckshaw? Always loved it's lines.
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    That's a beautiful mother/daughter photo, Ed. It would be a shame to leave junior in it's unfinished state as she is so lovely. But I can understand how burned out you may be after rigging the larger one. Is there any task more repetitive than rigging a clipper ship?
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    I know copyright has been discussed ad-infinitum here but this dovetails into the post by Chuck the other day on pulling photos from the interned and posting them here. There are companies that troll the internet on behalf of photo distributors searching for copyright protected photographs. Once they locate one, they contact the owner and strong arm the offender with threats and a high fee to resolve the grievance. One of my employees saw a cute photo of a dog with a bandaged leg and put it on our website a while ago. I received a strongly worded e-mail to take it down immediatly and pay them $800 or the fee would continue to rise. I did some research to discover the photo distributor and am in the process of negotiating a settlement, thereby bypassing the heavy-handed third party. Our web posting protocol has now been heavily modified and, if Chuck seems paranoid about random photos and material, it's because there are people out there looking for such offences and wanting to profit from them. An expensive lesson for me
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    Sorry for your staining issues, Remco. All my Fiebings-dyed wales are as black as the day I applied them. But, I have never placed any other finish over them. Perhaps there was some sort of interaction between the dye and the oil. Based on your log I have no doubt you'll get it sorted out.
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    Nice job on the port and sweep linings. Fun? Maybe the first few, but after that a lot of tedium!
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    Very nice mast step, Danny, and beautiful wood palette you've chosen.
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    Would love to see some more photographs of your lovely model. What scale are you building at?
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    Great work and planning Marsalv. The hanging knees are the most difficult to fit but for some reason I usually install the beams and lodging knees first. Your building sequence makes a lot of sense.

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