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  1. Mike Y
    Installed the false keel. It is the first time I work with ebony, and probably the last. Working with ebony is all about cleaning, cleaning, cleaning and again cleaning. Bleh! Shaped it with the Veritas mini block plane, its blade is really hard, cuts ebony without any issues: Result:
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    As far as I know - the only one (maybe excluding some chinese crap copies, was not looking on them). There are few thickness sanders of a similar size, but sander is not an option for me - too many dust.
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    Thanks Erik! This time I gave up and used iPhone 5 to take photos, instead of the proper camera (Canon S120). The colours on the iphone photos are much more correct and realistic then the ones made by canon, which makes everything too warm and yellow under this light. Tried to reset the WB - ended up with colours that are too cold. Tried iPhone - hah, it just gives a right colour with no tweaks or filters or adjustments
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    Finished fairing the exterior of the hull: No finish applied yet. First time I show the hidden side of it It is the port side, it would be fully planked and fully hidden - hence no iron bolts, very rough fairing and less attention to the frame alignment - ended up adding strips of wood to patch the low spots. Now need to make a frame to support the hull in an inverted position (keel down), to be able to comfortably work with the internals of the hull. Internal fairing would be fun!
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    Igor, all shop vacs are too loud and too big for my room... So I am using a tiny detachable vac (http://cache.air-n-water.com/images/electrolux-el1014a-6-l.jpg) I put it close to the sander, under the left bottom corner where the majority of dust goes, and that helps a lot.
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    Bought the Proxxon DH40 recently. Got tired of reducing the thickness by sanding. Tried to imagine making all the deck skeleton (beams, carlings, ledges, etc) without a way to quickly get a desired thickness. Meh! The tool is ugly, but does the job. It is not quiet, but not very loud either - the sound level and type of noise is exactly like the kitchen meat grinder After purchase, make sure to carefully wipe away all the oil from the table - otherwise the wood will get really dirty. Apart from that, mine was pretty well configured on the factory. To test, I had 10kg of light pear from Lumberyard - I could not use it before, because it had a very rough finish, which is not suitable for use until you spend hours sanding it. Thanks, nope. It was collecting dust for a year, and now I can finally use it! Same piece split to two halves, original wood is on top, and the bottom one is after two passes on DH40: The result is quite smooth, so only finishing sanding (with 400-600 grit and higher) is required. It does not produce any dust (hence, no vacuum port on the tool), only wood chips: The auto feeder function works like a charm! All in all, the result is very satisfactory. And this is the only thickness planer of this size. The only downside is a price.. Damn expensive!
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    I am lucky, my admiral is very understanding. She does not like smelly things though, so my experiments with diluting tung oil with turpentine failed.. Also, if she complains about my "workshop" - I will complain about her knitting machine corner So no complains, perfect balance.
  8. Mike Y
    Hoorray! I saw the pictures of this model and was always wondering who built it, now I know How about a build log? It would be very interesting to follow!
  9. Mike Y
    I am vacuuming and wiping away dust after every modelling session. That is why all the drawers are closed with doors - dust will not get inside, easier to clean. Also, the main dust producer is a disc sander, and I put a small vacuum next to it when sanding, most of the sawdust go there. When doing some very dusty work, like sanding the hull - I am going to the kitchen and do it there, it is better designed for cleaning. Dust, noise and space are always a limitations if you work in the living room.. But it is definitely possible.
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    Anything with a closed rollout sections will not work - the drawers are mounted pretty high (to make room for liftong the table, 125cm in the top position), so things should be accesssible from the lower angle - shelfs are on the level of your head and sholders. I will just make an internal plywood shelfs, should be simple.
  11. Mike Y
    I was writing about IKEA electrical height adjusted tables here, and now I finally got it to try first hand. See the photos in "where do you do your modelling" topic: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/3869-so-where-do-you-do-yours-then-model-making-that-is/page-26#entry399112 It is the BEKANT table: http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/products/30255250/ With GERTON table top: http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/products/50106773/ It is more stable than I expected, probably a heavy table top (it is a thick solid wood) helps with that. Really great, I can recommend it.
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    Spent few weeks working on my "living room corner workshop" Finally I have a lifting table! No more bending the neck and back when working with a small details! Hooorray! Normal position: Standing position: All power tools are stacked below the table, except the disk sander that is used too frequently. Small stuff is hidden in the drawers (need to add some internal compartments for a more efficient space use), and very frequently used tools are on a magnetic holder outside the drawers: Everything is from IKEA, of course Electrical table legs - BEKANT (I am very pleased with them, very little play, very stable, even better than my office table, which is far more expensive) Table top - GERTON. It is a solid wood beech top, which I sanded and finished with tung oil. Drawers - VALJE. They are neat like tetris bricks, could be combined in many different ways.
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    Your log is a pleasure to read, please keep it coming!
  14. Mike Y
    Very tiny margin for the frame fairing, hope you will not force yourself into the corner... Watching with interest!
  15. Mike Y
    This issue is a huge step forward! Lots of interesting material!
  16. Mike Y
    I really wish to become 48 times smaller for an hour to crawl inside this amazing replica. Tom is right, you are building a piece that is above the average museum quality!
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    Magnificent!
  18. Mike Y
    Jim, thanks for the info! Never heard about this system. Looks very interesting! Now I am seriously thinking about a lifting sit/stand table, with shelves build up from this modules
  19. Mike Y
    Band-sander! Brilliant idea!
  20. Mike Y
    Robin, here is the NMM page with that model, maybe it will give you some additional information for your research: http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66277.html
  21. Mike Y
    Amazing website! An excellent way to show our hobby to an outsider. Also because linking to the build log directly is not possible (photos are not available for non-registered visitors), but now you have an external source. Bravo!
  22. Mike Y
    Thanks for the comments and likes! Greg, all the photos show the good side only. The ugly one is not shown yet - it has wood strips patching low spots, rough finish and a lot of shortcuts (simple gunport sills instead of angled, simplified transom framing, etc) The ugly side would be fully planked fom top to the bottom, so no need to bother with accuracy there. I will post a photo one day.. Just too ashamed to show it. Hi Robin, Do you mean the model I showed as a reference? Sorry, I do not have a pictures of its great cabin, the only one I have are from NMM website. Or I misunderstood the question?
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    Had the same with my model, and luckily the gaps closed completely as soon as humidity returned to the normal level and stayed there for a few days. But it was scary! Your model is truly a museum-quality, and museum quality requires museum humidity controlling equipment Consider it as a compliment from mother nature
  24. Mike Y
    Yes yes please! I will stash a few!
  25. Mike Y
    Had very little time for modelling, pretty high activity in the office (in a good way though). But finally finished the side counter timbers on the side that would be open (read as "the side where I am trying to make it nice"). This one should start with a very old Soviet anecdote: So I installed some very oversized blocks and sanded them down to a wing-like shape. There are few minor errors (the wing transom corner was smoothened too much, and there are few minor dents), but I think it is decent for some part that was done totally from scratch, not according to Hahn's plans. Flipped the hull for the first time. Looks like a ship, actually! Time to finish the "ugly" side, and make a cradle for working with jig upside down, to access the inside of the hull. P.S.: sorry for the very blurry thumbnails of the photos, not sure why the forum engine compresses them so much. Please look on the fullsize versions, they are not as blurry.

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