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druxey

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  1. Someone else can add those details. Thanks for your very helpful input, ClipperFan.
  2. Clipperfan: The only way I can draw that to articulate properly is if her elbow is higher and forearm more horizontal, which will obscure her face in side elevation. Is that your take on this?
  3. Looking good, Richard. Toni's advice is sound if you haven't faired inside yet.
  4. Please read Longridge's Anatomy of Nelson's Ships or Goodwin's Sailing Man of War, Don. Either will inform you more comprehensively than any brief answer here. However, briefly; every timber on a ship had a structural purpose. The beams of a ship need a lot of reinforcement that planking alone simply would not supply.
  5. I still own and use an identical palm plane, also made by X-Acto. It has a little less red paint on it now, though....
  6. Ah! Memory lane.... My very own first tool was probably an X-Acto knife. I recall having a small set in a wooden box with the small and large handle. Before that I used my father's tools, some of which I still use today.
  7. I interpret the right hand holding the bunched drapery, so is mainly hidden under the drape. Am I wrong?
  8. Thanks for the feedback. It was difficult to render the right arm from the differing angles of the various photos.
  9. It's the horizon lines that show the tilt of the prints are different ones of the same photo. All right, gentlemen, my two cents' worth is added!
  10. Perhaps you should re-christen the model "Bad Luck Boney", Dan. The years have not been kind to her.
  11. Meanings and usage of words change over time. I do not know when 'camber' was adopted to replace 'round up' but suspect it was in the mid-nineteenth century. However, camber was the descriptive word used to describe the deck construction seen in the draught above. Steel, Naval Architecture page 14,1805: CAMBER. Hollow or arching upwards. the decks are said to be cambered when their height increase toward the middle, from stem and stern, in the direction of the ship's length.
  12. I'm surprised that you can't source a Proxxon in Canada. Try: www.chippingaway.com or www.Nutmegwoodworking.ca
  13. No, although it does help drain. The deck is sloped down (this is actually describing 'camber' as the word was used then) to the hawse holes. This allowed the cable to come up on the weather deck. If a deck lower, the hawse holes would be too close to the waterline. On this plan the hawse holes and scupper are not shown. To clarify; 'camber' is the rounding down of a deck as seen longitudinally and 'round up' is the correct term for the transverse (athwartships) curve of the deck and beams.
  14. Do you ever use miniature broaches to clear small holes? I find them very helpful. The new crowsfoot looks good.
  15. Looks pretty nice to me. What kind of wood are you using? If you run the grain diagonally it will be less likely to break.
  16. Welcome back and enjoy your health now!
  17. 'Quarter galleries' in English. They are always a challenge with the compound angles involved.
  18. Mis-spelling: Should be http://littlemachineshop.com
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