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  1. druxey
    Pantographs were originally used for enlarging sketches, not scale drawings. As remarked already, scan and print to the size you need is far more accurate and reliable!
  2. druxey
    Am I correct in my recollection of reading somewhere that a flute or fife-like instrument was used to keep time, not a drum?
  3. druxey
    Then you may notice a slight difference, Bruce!
  4. druxey
    No, it was a small slip, fortunately. Bruce; exercise great care if you've not used one of these saws before. My slip happened the first time I used one.
  5. druxey
    Very ingenious mechanism for the three banks of oars, Richard! Must have been fun calculating the 'throw' and stroke rate relative to the motor rpm. Is that ramming speed? And a very nicely crafted model as well.
  6. druxey
    I find that a shallower cone angle improves the lay-up of the line. Looking good, though!
  7. druxey
    I think that the arrangement would be similar to your illustration, right hand side, across the box. The access would be from the inboard side, with only a single head per compartment.
  8. druxey
    Welcome back to wood, as well as metal!
  9. druxey
    You will also find bending techniques Chuck uses as well as other ways to bend planks in the tutorials. I haven't used pins or clamps in years!
  10. druxey
    I believe that the compartments for the heads continued inside the boxes or sponsons, bringing them closer over the shafts. Another consideration I seem to recall from reading years ago was the issue of trapped air inside the sponsons if they were too tight to the wheels.
  11. druxey
    Go to the pinned planking tutorials on this site, shortgrass! All you need to know is there for you and everybody else.
  12. druxey
    Slog: I have just stumbled across your log for the first time. Superb work! I'd click 'like' on every entry, but it would take too long. Please assume that I did click each one.
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    Superb machine work, Michael! However, I thought that that was Mr. Woods in the photo, not Mr. Brown. They do look alike though...
  14. druxey
    Oh, they know all right! Nice progress, Mark. Provided that your planks are consistent in thickness, there is no reason for that sliver to be uneven.
  15. druxey
    If I may add; it is an established fact that the heads were often on each side of the boxes on side paddle steamers.
  16. druxey
    Looking at your photos, the boxes do extend that far inboard it appears.
  17. druxey
    Yup, those dozuki saws are scary sharp, and I've the scar to prove it!
  18. druxey
    I think that the clue is/are the small deckhouses attached to the inboard portions of the wheel boxes fore and aft. These are, I believe, the heads that discharge directly down inboard of the wheels.
  19. druxey
    Quit once you start seeing more than one mainbrace.... Congratulations, Grand-dad!
  20. druxey
    Nicely done, Ben!
  21. druxey
    Not quite. Lime wood is tilia and basswood is tilia americana. I've used boih and the European tilia is a little harder and somewhat less 'fuzzy'.
  22. druxey
    You will experience frustration tying hairs to a toothpick, because you will never get the hairs to come to a good point (which a quality sable will) and the hairs will not have the correct 'spring', which sable does. Yes, the top quality brushes are not cheap, but with care will last decades. I have 20 year (or older) brushes still working well for me!
  23. druxey
    Usually when the sails are furled or taken down, the yards are in their lowered positions.
  24. druxey
    Interesting method of creating the rocker on the bottom of your dory, Gary!
  25. druxey
    I'm sorry to read of this gentleman's passing. My condolences to his family and to you as well, Vince.

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