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  1. druxey
    Even if one is not 'into' making dioramas, this is an inspirational volume to look through from time to time. Beautifully photographed and described. Oh, many happy returns and wishing you a healthy, happy year ahead, Mr. Elwood!
  2. druxey
    I've never seen a model where the mast wedges actually were functional as in full-size practice. An impressive miniaturization of the technique, Ed.
  3. druxey
    Congratulations on completing and, well, launching your launches, Bob! Cute little things, aren't they?
  4. druxey
    Nice to see you back, Dick. The arrangement you show looks very convincing. Logically it would be easier and safer to bowse down the laniards from inboard - especially if one couldn't swim - although the spread of the shrouds athwartships would be less advantageous.
  5. druxey
    There is vinegar (CH3COOH) aka acetic acid in mustard.
  6. druxey
    They would have been threaded through the sweep ports (on the diagonal, as the width of the sweep blade was wider than the port) from inboard. It would have been quite the operation, even in a dead calm.
  7. druxey
    No. 2 style: If one substituted a metal ring for the rubber or neoprene one and slightly modified the taper, it would function the same way and be heat-resistant. BTW, I have one of Michael's third hands: it is brilliant.
  8. druxey
    Great discussion! While Lees' contribution to rigging knowledge is significant, there are some errors still uncorrected in his second edition. Even Steel contains the occasional typographic error. None of us are perfect, but we can usually sort things out from multiple sources.
  9. druxey
    Just catching up with this thread. There is no substitute for a quality tool. I smiled at Michael's reference to James Krenov. A wonderful designer/craftsman. For gnarly woods, a cabinet scraper is a useful alternative to shards of glass, and perhaps a little safer as well!
  10. druxey
    Going back to the first image, I'd not noticed the men pictured inside the 'hamster wheels'.
  11. druxey
    Oops! I stand corrected; I goofed. I plead wooly-headedness due to 'flu! The power of 8 it is. I didn't have enough brainpower today....
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    Un autre chef d'oeuvre, Gaetan??? And that that scale! It's too bad that each time you double the scale, the volume of wood required multiplies by a power of 4. We await the laying of the keel ceremony....
  13. druxey
    Nice link, Alan.
  14. druxey
    Yes, the cross-section of a plugstock rudder is circular. The stock plugs the hole!
  15. druxey
    Taking shape nicely, Russ!
  16. druxey
    The stay collar should loop around behind the gang of shrouds rather than over them. As the stay tightens, the shrouds will be cinched in slightly. As Chuck says, avoid that strap!
  17. druxey
    Nice to see you back with progress, E&T. Lovely work as usual.
  18. druxey
    I doubt we would have spotted the flaws if you hadn't circled them!
  19. druxey
    Interesting. However, gun ports were never placed one above the other on different decks.
  20. druxey
    That's a lot of add-ons required for a top of this era! Beautiful as usual, Ed.
  21. druxey
    Lovely work as always, Albert.
  22. druxey
    Very impressive and crisp detail, bobo!
  23. druxey
    Wait a minute, Maurys: the original Grice drawing shows a plugstock rudder. The center of rotation is such that the round c/s rudderhead passes through a circular hole in the counter!
  24. druxey
    That rudder only needs about 15 degrees each way: more helm than that and you have a brake!
  25. druxey
    I suggested the centerpunch for consistency of 'strike'.

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