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jo conrad got a reaction from Omega1234 in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hi Patrick,
to put it short and sweet : no copyright issues anymore. Btw : to hold and prolongate a copyright means you have to pay after the expiration. And who would be foolish enough to throw his money down the drain for another icy desaster on that ill-fated ship? Asking for trouble that would be. Even the said billionaire dropped the idea of a replica after having come to his wits again.
Have a good weekend, ye´all.
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from Chasseur in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hello Robin & Jeff.
There are no copyrights to be respected anymore. It´s been 105 years now, that "Preussen" has been run over by the that goof "Bristol"; her master-mind Georg W. Claussen, who constructed her, died in 1919, and the famous "Tecklenborg"-shipyard in Geestemünde went belly up in 1928. Copyrights expire after their statuary periods, and their objects become free for common use afterwards. So, as I mentioned far earlier : if you could manage to get the men, the money and the enthusiasm, you may go ahead right away and build a 1:1 replica without any legal problems to fear. I´ll sign on bosun as soon as she´ll glide down the slade.
We´ll give credit, where credit is due, and in their time these smart men at Tecklenborg´s have certainly had their fair share. But there´s no legal compulsion for something like copyright anymore.
And, Jeff : your log has a place of honour on my screen. Well done.
Best regards
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from captainbob in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hello Jeff,
she will be a beauty in a bottle, and her fine lines start to show. Well done, man.
As for cows coming home and dancing: our small lot never came home dancing, they just went step by step at their leisurely trot, no matter how hard we danced around them - and tried to yell them into a slightly faster pace. They didn´t even take notice of us children.
I suggest you do as the cows : take your leisurely pace, go on step by step and have your fun.
All the best
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from Omega1234 in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hello Jeff,
she will be a beauty in a bottle, and her fine lines start to show. Well done, man.
As for cows coming home and dancing: our small lot never came home dancing, they just went step by step at their leisurely trot, no matter how hard we danced around them - and tried to yell them into a slightly faster pace. They didn´t even take notice of us children.
I suggest you do as the cows : take your leisurely pace, go on step by step and have your fun.
All the best
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from Chasseur in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hello Jeff,
she will be a beauty in a bottle, and her fine lines start to show. Well done, man.
As for cows coming home and dancing: our small lot never came home dancing, they just went step by step at their leisurely trot, no matter how hard we danced around them - and tried to yell them into a slightly faster pace. They didn´t even take notice of us children.
I suggest you do as the cows : take your leisurely pace, go on step by step and have your fun.
All the best
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from mtaylor in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hello Jeff,
she will be a beauty in a bottle, and her fine lines start to show. Well done, man.
As for cows coming home and dancing: our small lot never came home dancing, they just went step by step at their leisurely trot, no matter how hard we danced around them - and tried to yell them into a slightly faster pace. They didn´t even take notice of us children.
I suggest you do as the cows : take your leisurely pace, go on step by step and have your fun.
All the best
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from IgorSky in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hello Jeff,
she will be a beauty in a bottle, and her fine lines start to show. Well done, man.
As for cows coming home and dancing: our small lot never came home dancing, they just went step by step at their leisurely trot, no matter how hard we danced around them - and tried to yell them into a slightly faster pace. They didn´t even take notice of us children.
I suggest you do as the cows : take your leisurely pace, go on step by step and have your fun.
All the best
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from cog in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Thirds are charmes,
but all good things come in fours, don´t they ?? ;-))
My best wishes for a good and lasting recovery to Judy. Spring is around the corner, and all things are going to be "bright and beautiful".
Good luck to both of you
P.S. : the Most Honourable and Noble Swiss Watchmakers´ Society at Geneva would be pleased to send you their application form. They are constantly looking for new masters of their trade and will surely and with the greatest pleasure accept you as their new fellow. I neither saw any really working spark-plugs of 2 cm length, nor did I ever hear of such things. Mein Gott, Michael, where is this going to end ??
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from Jack12477 in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Thirds are charmes,
but all good things come in fours, don´t they ?? ;-))
My best wishes for a good and lasting recovery to Judy. Spring is around the corner, and all things are going to be "bright and beautiful".
Good luck to both of you
P.S. : the Most Honourable and Noble Swiss Watchmakers´ Society at Geneva would be pleased to send you their application form. They are constantly looking for new masters of their trade and will surely and with the greatest pleasure accept you as their new fellow. I neither saw any really working spark-plugs of 2 cm length, nor did I ever hear of such things. Mein Gott, Michael, where is this going to end ??
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from vaddoc in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Thirds are charmes,
but all good things come in fours, don´t they ?? ;-))
My best wishes for a good and lasting recovery to Judy. Spring is around the corner, and all things are going to be "bright and beautiful".
Good luck to both of you
P.S. : the Most Honourable and Noble Swiss Watchmakers´ Society at Geneva would be pleased to send you their application form. They are constantly looking for new masters of their trade and will surely and with the greatest pleasure accept you as their new fellow. I neither saw any really working spark-plugs of 2 cm length, nor did I ever hear of such things. Mein Gott, Michael, where is this going to end ??
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from druxey in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Thirds are charmes,
but all good things come in fours, don´t they ?? ;-))
My best wishes for a good and lasting recovery to Judy. Spring is around the corner, and all things are going to be "bright and beautiful".
Good luck to both of you
P.S. : the Most Honourable and Noble Swiss Watchmakers´ Society at Geneva would be pleased to send you their application form. They are constantly looking for new masters of their trade and will surely and with the greatest pleasure accept you as their new fellow. I neither saw any really working spark-plugs of 2 cm length, nor did I ever hear of such things. Mein Gott, Michael, where is this going to end ??
Germanus
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jo conrad reacted to michael mott in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Bob, Row, Denis thanks for your great comments, and for all the likes recently.
I had to go back an measure it, it is set to be .047" I might need to change that, I don't know at this point. but the design will enable me to make a change if I need to.
spark plug.pdf
I will be making a small short sleeve at the bottom end of the plug that will thread in this will be then notched to creat a short stub to act as the ground for the plug so that the spark jumps from steel to steel.
Michael
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jo conrad got a reaction from EdT in Young America 1853 by EdT - FINISHED - extreme clipper
Hello Ed,
there are some tips by billq1947 in the "wooden tips and tricks"-departement here in MSW. He suggests the use of 10% hydrogen peroxide for bending strips.
http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/1515-best-way-to-bend-strips-laterally/?hl=%20hydrogen%20%20peroxide.
Whenever I turn my pc on, I visit THE SHIP, sometimes even trice/day. Your craftmanship matches the beauty of her lines perfectly; it´s a delight to watch her grow under your hands.
My respect.
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from GLakie in Young America 1853 by EdT - FINISHED - extreme clipper
Hello Ed,
there are some tips by billq1947 in the "wooden tips and tricks"-departement here in MSW. He suggests the use of 10% hydrogen peroxide for bending strips.
http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/1515-best-way-to-bend-strips-laterally/?hl=%20hydrogen%20%20peroxide.
Whenever I turn my pc on, I visit THE SHIP, sometimes even trice/day. Your craftmanship matches the beauty of her lines perfectly; it´s a delight to watch her grow under your hands.
My respect.
Germanus
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jo conrad reacted to michael mott in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Ed, thank you, your comment means a great deal to me.
this evening I am having a hard time wiping the silly grin off my face.
Beginning cuts
Half a day later the last tooth cut
Back to the lathe for some rough shaping
I ground up a bit of a form tool to get the curved recess better.
After parting it off I slipped it onto the camshaft .
It is actually on the shaft backwards I have to set it up in a fixture on the four jaw chuck now and machine the eccentric cam for the water pump then it can be flipped to finish the front side.
It did mesh nicely though even without any clean up yet,
Michael
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jo conrad reacted to cog in Skipjack by michael mott - 1/8th scale - SMALL - 19 foot open launch
Yesssss, that grin should be enormous, and you should hear our applause from all over the globe ...
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jo conrad reacted to Chasseur in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Germanus,
thanks for responding as I did try Heller a few times and struck out. So yes please, a copy of the 1:150 building manual would be superb. You are truly a saviour and I would be greatful for a copy of the building manual. So if you can please send them I'll cancel the hold it put on a Pantograph at Lee Valley.
Please advise,
Jeff
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jo conrad got a reaction from DSiemens in Preussen by Chasseur - BOTTLE - barque
Hi Jeff,
why not save a lot of your nerves and money, find a good (!) copy-shop and let the experts there reduce the plans to your requested scale? Of course you will have to check up the copies until you finally have the correct dimensions for your BIG BOTTLE; but that will still be a cheaper, more accurate and certainly much less cumbersome procedure than trying the pantograph with its inherent inaccuracies.
If a copy of Heller´s building manual of their excellent plastic release of "Preussen" in 1: 150 would come in handy for your project, just drop me a note. With a build like this one simply can´t have enough information. Unfortunatly I forgot to mention this earlier.
Btw.: if anyone else would be interested in more copies of "Preussen" from the book "Königin der See", I could contact the publisher company and ask for their permission. I don´t think that 45 years after editing the book they would dismiss that reqest, of course on condition of strictly private (modelling) use. But in case anyone should be crazy and rich enough and take a fancy to build a 1:1 sailing "Preussen"-replica, some more research will be necessary. And some 5000 tons of 1st-class Siemens-Martin-steel would fit in nicely, too.
Good luck , Jeff, with that Gentle Giant.
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from mtaylor in Bristol Pilot Cutter by michael mott - 1/8 scale - POF
Hello Michael,
that´s of no importance at all; it´s just a little more work to do. I´ve done the same a couple of times - when I was a young vet, a very young one. Three or four times in the run of my glorious career, when stitching up a caesarean in the middle of the night, I´ve cut the long end of my catgut...
Well, some juicy curses from my side, and - gnashing my teeth - I´d start the whole 40 cm-stitching business all over again. 10 minutes of precious sleep lost.
And them cows went on chewing their cuds in all peace.
These things and many more happen on the bumpy road to the retirement age. And after we have finally come up to that, we cut the shrouds at the wrong end.
Prosit !!
Gx
Germanus
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jo conrad got a reaction from stelios in Bristol Pilot Cutter by michael mott - 1/8 scale - POF
Hello Michael,
that´s of no importance at all; it´s just a little more work to do. I´ve done the same a couple of times - when I was a young vet, a very young one. Three or four times in the run of my glorious career, when stitching up a caesarean in the middle of the night, I´ve cut the long end of my catgut...
Well, some juicy curses from my side, and - gnashing my teeth - I´d start the whole 40 cm-stitching business all over again. 10 minutes of precious sleep lost.
And them cows went on chewing their cuds in all peace.
These things and many more happen on the bumpy road to the retirement age. And after we have finally come up to that, we cut the shrouds at the wrong end.
Prosit !!
Gx
Germanus
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jo conrad reacted to michael mott in Bristol Pilot Cutter by michael mott - 1/8 scale - POF
John Thanks.
Back at the block Factory, A long time ago I purchased a small board of Lemonwood or Degame to make some wagon type wheels, the blanks were cut but the wheels never got made. I re-cut the small curved sections to use for blocks. the wood is quite hard and takes a fine polish it is similar in texture to Boxwood but a little darker. I wont be using this many double blocks, after shaping the profile I will cut a number of them in half to make single blocks like the ones on the right.
and a metric rule
The big blocks are Lemonwood the small ones in the front are Boxwood
I also worked on a maple one with a metal frame
The pin is 3/32 in diameter
the new block attached with yesterday's shackle
Michael
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