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druxey

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  1. Welcome aboard, Ariana!
  2. Jim Byrnes deliberately 'eases' the fence beyond the blade to prevent binding. Measure the fence's parallelism from the front edge of the table to opposite the center of the blade.
  3. Quite the saga, HH. I do sympathise: it's tough enough getting the geometry correct even when things are symmetrical, but when they aren't.... I assume trimming back the starboard side of the model back a bit was not an option to even the stern up more? Your workmanship is lovely, though. Reminds me of a bone or ivory model.
  4. Interesting that the moment I read Rob's post about 'model' and 'window', my mind went straight to the points made by you other gentlemen. The other issue other than UV is heat gain from outside and differential in temperature on each side of the model.
  5. The more things change....
  6. It will probably be dark enough so that you might not need to paint the shadow box black at all. Nice idea!
  7. It does look very convincing! Sorry that you have to do a re-think and re-work.
  8. All very interesting excerpts! Thanks for these, Alan.
  9. I have to agree with wefalck: the whole model looks terrific, but he loose lay of the line strikes my eye immediately in those photos. I use cotton to spin my line, and the result is not stiff at all. The lay is at about 45 degrees.
  10. It's an interesting concept, masa. However, would this self-destruct in time as the coefficients of expansion/contraction of metal and wood are dissimilar, plus the effects of varying humidity on wood?
  11. And a warm welcome, Kalakukko!
  12. What a lovely, atmospheric model, Javier! Congratulations on completing yet another miniature masterpiece.
  13. Thanks for the tutorial on turning faux miniature screws, Michael. That spalted wood looks great! Also, the burgundy cushions look pretty nice as well.
  14. Yes, Michael, we all had hair back then!
  15. Gosh, weren't we young then! Lovely work for a young 'un, too.
  16. I agree with Dan that the garboard should not extend up the stem. The other issue is that all planks are not the same width. As vaddoc points out, they are wider on the flatter cross-sectional areas of the hull and narrower on the more curved portions. CAD can take you so far with the science of planking, but does not account for the art of lining out!
  17. Lovely progress as usual, Michael. Panelling looks great.
  18. Thank you for my smile this morning. That is shaping up very sweetly, G.L.
  19. If, as you've mentioned, children may wander in unsupervised, cupboard doors behind which sharp items can be stored and locked, and a master switch to cut all power to the workshop space.
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