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  1. druxey
    I absolutely agree with Jim! Buy cheap and repent at leisure. If you can't afford a full set of quality chisels, just buy two different sizes and add to as needed and budget affords. You won't regret it. As for internal frame fairing, I simply use a shallow Pfeil palm gouge, then shaped sanding blocks. Not chisels.
  2. druxey
    Part of the issue here is folk like Gary and myself giving you instructions from the cheap seats! Or is that the cheap sholes?
  3. druxey
    Don't forget the sholes/soles!
  4. druxey
    That's a great start and yes; things get easier and faster with practice, or we'd never finish a model!
  5. druxey
    Lovely clean work there, Gb.
  6. druxey
    There may be a hammer, JD, but it won't be tiny and will be heading at high speed directly at you. I understand Toni has good aim.
  7. druxey
    Now, now, JD! Stop putting ideas into people's heads.
  8. druxey
    The sails are more likely to be of parchment paper. These 'galleons' were very popular decorative items after the First World War.
  9. druxey
    Beautiful and functional!
  10. druxey
    Excellent progress, HH! She is beginning to look as amazing as the original must have been.
  11. druxey
    I'm sorry to read of the difficulties you've been having, Remco. I wish better fortune for 2021 than you've had this year. Every best wish as you look for a new position. Hopefully we'll soon see you back with progress on your Kingfisher.
  12. druxey
    Very nice choice. Yes, the variety of bandings available is amazing. Decisions...decisions!
  13. druxey
    'Quarter sawn' usually provides good results. This is where the grain, seen end on, runs diagonally.
  14. druxey
    Certainly an ambitious 'first', and well done for seeing such a major project through. Many others would have fallen by the wayside.
  15. druxey
    Would thin brass or copper shim sheet work better than card for the roves?
  16. druxey
    Bien fait, monsieur! Nicely done, sir.
  17. druxey
    Off to a good start there, jw. I like your shipyard helper as well.
  18. druxey
    Excellent result! Well done, Gb.
  19. druxey
    He models, he machines, he cooks. Is there anything Keith can't do?
  20. druxey
    By the time you build your third framed model, you won't have to re-do the cant frames over at all you'll be so experienced. It will be too late to recant! I notice that you tried to camouflage your bandaged thumb with the same color as your coverall. I hope it's healing well.
  21. druxey
    I think that the deck plan outlines are representative only, not properly lofted!
  22. druxey
    I wish you luck wrestling the frames into a new shape. Wood has a mind of its own and tends to go back to the place where it started.
  23. druxey
    Looking lovely, Mark. But what is that piece just aft of the aftermost lower deck port?
  24. druxey
    Better (read 'generally more expensive') units are usually better for vibration-free running. Cheap ones tend to 'thrash'.
  25. druxey
    And now you have earned the title of Master Shipwright, Mark. Congratulations!

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