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Thank you for my morning smile, Ed. I love the little adjustable jig!- 3,612 replies
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Beautiful work, Amalio!
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Usually there was a small eyebolt (called a sprig) in the end of the gaff with a small single block attached. The halliard, as mentioned above, was continuous. It might belay to a small cleat or eyebolt aft.
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Your care is showing! Nice work, Mark.
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It certainly can be interesting figuring out the lead of lines until nothing fouls anything else. A belaying plan from Grice would have been nice, wouldn't it? I can see you are having fun, Maury!
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A beautifully methodical build, Patrick!
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I have used professional museum and art object movers in the past. They are bonded and insured and are used to packing, crating and moving delicate items. However, they are not cheap.
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ancre Chebece 1750 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
druxey replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
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I knew that your hull planking was individually laid with self-adhesive foil, but not the decks as well. Impressive!
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Questions, questions - always more questions! I agree that those slides would have been ideal to hold the lower halfport/washboard. With gravity, there would be no need to hinge them. I still feel that a ready source of splinters would have been stowed away when clearing for action. The upper halves must have been detachable.
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I get it. Fortunately, my wife has a dread of sharp-edged or noisy tools.
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I didn't realize that the decks are individually laid strips. Beautifully done.
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Surely the half-ports, if fitted, would have been removed and stowed away for combat?
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A truly talented couple, then!
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I hate to criticize a lovely job but, to my eye, the run of plank into the bow rabbet looks a little steep. Is the top of the main wale at the correct height or a little too high? If it's not exactly right (as I discovered from personal experience) the headwork will not sit correctly at the bow. Hopefully it's just due to camera angle or distortion.
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The Wylie painting is 20th century, so he may have been mistaken in showing half-lids to the ports. The lid thickness in the painting is suspect as well! However, the image is full of atmosphere and activity.
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Are you planning on leaving the model au naturel or will you be painting her?
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Complex and very neat!
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The size of that recovered deadeye is strange. The photos show a groove about 11cm in diameter, or a little over 4" This implies that the line around the deadeye would be in the order of 12". According to Steel, a 100 (or 110) gun ship had 17" deadeyes and 11" shrouds. Is it possible that this artifact did not, in fact, come from Colossus?
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Lovely, work Mark. But why the lightning bolt, pray tell?
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Looks like some substantial progress, Gary.
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OK, I've rotated things to a more 'normal' point of view. No more cricked necks! I hope this simplifies things for our discussion.
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That is exactly as I thought and tried to say about the 3 1/2" measurement! Language...the greatest barrier to communication! Thank you, Archnav. It was what the lining was that confused me before.
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I just saw the sketch you posted: I've never seen this sketch before. Interesting!
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