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  1. druxey
    Welcome back, indeed! With your abilities, I'm sure those chairs will turn out well, Keith.
  2. druxey
    Interesting technique of 'tempering' polystyrene!
  3. druxey
    Actually, the stiles are each just a single piece. I suspect that the notch in the rear of them was partly to save weight.
  4. druxey
    I'm sure that there were local differnces between English (Steel) and French (Boudriot) practice.
  5. druxey
    Most likely to air out the toilet compartment?
  6. druxey
    Apparently this toxic green was also used in book covers for a while....
  7. druxey
    Horizontal lodging knees would be vital, I would think! The other, less likely, possibility would be beam arms.
  8. druxey
    Looking very good, Chris. My solution is a bit late now: In order to avoid barked knuckles when fairing the inside of the hull, I fair the fore and aft frames before adding the midship ones. This gives lots of access and elbow room. Ah well, next time, perhaps....
  9. druxey
    A hanging knee over a gun port (at least in English practice) would be 'cast' or angled around the port. Her there is insufficient space for this solution, so omitting it entirely is reasonable.
  10. druxey
    Just found your log, E. J. A 'great' start!
  11. druxey
    Glad you got it fixed! Ah, yes; New Bedford. Happy days!
  12. druxey
    Very well articulated, Marc. While I agree with all you've said, I have to add that you have to have the will or drive to want to achieve whatever it is that pulls you.
  13. druxey
    Well done!
  14. druxey
    The best source is W.E. May's The Boats of Men-of-War (Chatham Publishing, 1999). Page 19 is particularly helpful for this time period.
  15. druxey
    One of those thimbles will need to be split!
  16. druxey
    Also, when painting a model, one needs to take into account scale and typical viewing distance. Colors may appear more muted in a model than on the prototype ship.
  17. druxey
    A very informative discussion of actually seeing what Steel describes carried out in detail! Thank you, Sizzolo and Trevor. By the way, I found applying the line over the buoy rope at 1:48 a real challenge. Your example is beautifully done.
  18. druxey
    Fair you well, then!
  19. druxey
    Good going, Chris! She looks great,
  20. druxey
    Power tools always seem to come back and bite....
  21. druxey
    Well done so far! Triangular ringbolts? Yes, they are tricky. I cut a hardwood stick to the inside dimensions and drill a small hole through. One end of the wire, well annealed, is inserted in the drilled hole and the wire wrapped tightly around the stick. The assembly is then held securely in a soft jawed vise. (I use disposable pieces of illustration board, rubber cemented in place.) The rings are parted off using a fine jewelers' saw blade. The tiny gap in each rig is closed up and optionally soldered.
  22. druxey
    The other big difference between a bullseye and heart is that the heart has grooves in it to accept the turns of the laniard so that the crushing effect Trevor mentioned is eliminated.
  23. druxey
    Hippo, hippo, hurray! Laser-cut guides burned too deep, not so good.
  24. druxey
    Don't knock it. It still works fine after all these years!
  25. druxey
    And I still use my old electric drill powered Meccano ropewalk!

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