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druxey

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  1. Yup! Those T-slots work much better with access. But lovely cabinetry work anyway.
  2. Great progress, Gaetan. She is looking lovely.
  3. Congratulations, Adrian. I hope your model does well in competition. It certainly deserves to!
  4. Beautifully done! I can see why these would be tricky to make.
  5. Your cross-chock joints are nice and neat looking!
  6. Looks good. And 'snugly' is a word, indeed!
  7. If you look at the forecastle deck plan above, you will see that the deviation of the upper deck beam is to allow the long ends of the spanshackle bolts to pass down through the upper deck beam to be forelocked below it. You may wonder why the beam wasn't simply a regular straight one placed slightly further forward. The outer ends are placed closer to beneath gun port #2 for support.
  8. You are partly correct, Meddo. The other reason is reinforcement for the main mast partners immediately aft of them.
  9. I've just looked at a handwritten contract for a sixth rate (1775) and the phrase 'iron stair cases' is included in the rubric. As this was not a regular fighting ship (see dafi's suggestion above), it strengthens my thought that this refers to the railing around the companion openings.
  10. Aiee! What a complex set of procedures to carry out, Ed. I would have been strongly tempted to simplify and fudge those blocks at that scale. My hat is doffed to you, Sensei!
  11. The speculation sounds plausible, Wayne! Certainly iron stanchions and rails were used for safety to surround three sides of a companion coaming on, say, the quarter deck. Contemporary models show these.
  12. Silly question: are the stirrups for the footropes long enough? They should hang about 3' 0" below the yards. Unless ship is manned by midgets, of course. (No offence meant to the height-challenged.)
  13. That seems like a reasonable assumption, Mark. It's certainly a new term for me! Thank you for posting the actual examples of this. I do note the provision "as shall be directed", implying that this might be a catch-all phrase preceding those words.
  14. I can only echo what has already been written: beautiful and precise!
  15. The Berwick draught is a very interesting drawing. Those 'extreme' hanging knees shown on the gun and upper decks must surely be iron - they appear to be considerably less than a foot wide, judging from the scale in the upper right. The standards on the upper deck are wider and must be wood. I was also looking at the knee of the head: all the joints are tabled ones. That would be a modelling challenge!
  16. Looking lovely, Mike. Ignore those jealous comments about how good your work and photography is!
  17. They would be unlikely all cut to the same length, as A) the shift of butts have to be taken into account and all butts must land in the middle of a frame. As for the aft end of the wale, for wood economy it might have been something like I've sketched. What do you think?
  18. I assume the swivel helped level the yard when the ship was heeled.
  19. As long as you shift the butts properly in correct sequence, you should be all right.
  20. A beautiful demonstration of how far the yard can be braced around using the yoke and swivel arrangement. Nice, Ed!
  21. Don't rely 100% on masking tape to prevent bleeding of dye! For wales, I dye them before applying other planking. To dye to a line (for instance on a mast), I cut a stop-line in the wood with a new scalpel blade. This prevents wicking of dye through the end grain to where I don't want it. Practice on scrap to see this simple but effective technique.
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