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The problem with the carver's bench, above, is that - beautiful as it is - it has insufficient knee room for sitting. It is essentially a standing bench. -
It a appears that a series of cleats are attached to the vertical staging posts.
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The table Joe posted (#14) is a jeweler's bench. Good for ultra-miniature work, it doesn't have the flat surface area most model-makers need. If you can afford an electric table adjustable of height on a cantilever principle, then that is the best option - particularly if you are a wheelchair user.
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Question Sherboune 1763 Inventory Rigging and blocks
druxey replied to cotrecerf's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Source, Mark, is Ch10/65 or CHN 0105 RMG (Royal Museums Greenwich). -
Um.. why not painted paper or card strips instead of brass?
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Question Sherboune 1763 Inventory Rigging and blocks
druxey replied to cotrecerf's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
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I only woke up to the benefits of parallel pliers a few years ago when I took a jewelry making course. Wish I'd had a pair decades ago! They are indispensable for miniature 'smithing'. Lovely work there. BTW, my capsquares were built up, not cast. Mind you, I didn't need the quantity of them that you require.
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SeaWatch is the sole distributor, Brian.
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It's probably water content in rubbing alcohol that softens the wood.
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Some wood springs back more than other species. Basswood has very little spring-back in thin pieces.
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It's amazing how, with the planksheer and timberheads, the model suddenly looks more finished - even if it isn't! Lovely work there, Alex.
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Ad infinitum or ad nauseam, HH? Example of capsquare attached to a 12lb carronade carriage. Admittedly it is at 1:48 scale, but on a carriage that size they are pretty small!
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OK, oh OCD one: what about the hinge on one end and the square hole at the other?
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Morgan: I would agree with your assessment of the 'stand-off' effect of the cleats, as well as preventing the breeching from hanging up on top of the front of the cheek.
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Gee, that's the Rolls Royce version, Mark. Mine was a Ford: just a half-round the diameter of the trunnion glued to a flat surface. The strip of copper was pressed down using a suitable pair of tweezers on edge each side of the half-round. Worked fine. I am definitely not my father's son! (See previous comment).
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Ah yes, the good old (literally) 'thorn' that looks like a 'y' ( as in ye olde). I suppose, Steven, that the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf is your bed-time reading? I like Seamus Heaney's translation, although I hear that a new really good version has just been published. But I digress!
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Para Handy - I love your 'handle' and reference to those Neil Munro stories! - I agree completely with your assessment of the various tool brands. Some are "Chust sublime!"
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Swan-Class Sloop by Stuglo - FINISHED - 1:48
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Sometimes explosive effects are very strange.
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Yes, there was a move to run the breeching line through the large ring bolts in order to control a gun 'jumping' on recoil.
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Let's hope it doesn't go rancid, then! That look pretty deep for its length.
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Was the pigtail of L'Orient's conductor bent by the explosion?
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No, Jim, you are thinking of formal dessert! Welcome to the silliness that is MSW, jdowney.
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