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  1. druxey
    The advantages and disadvantages of these two extrusion methods is very educational. Please continue!
  2. druxey
    Bien fait, Monsieur! Je vous remercie pour les sabords flottants! Thanks for the 'extra' floating ports.
  3. druxey
    That is a very nice mast step indeed!
  4. druxey
    Just catching up with your work, Clare. What delightful vessel! I'm sure other builders will appreciate your comments and helpful tips. Well done!
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    I've had a whole container turn to a solid gel, Mike.
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    Thanks, Ed. I guess to get in to either the locker or the head, one would need to crouch over like Igor. "Walk this way."
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    Tung oil does tend to polymerize in the container once it has been opened. To store it, pour it into a smaller container to avoid an air space or use a small gas canister (designed for this purpose!) to 'fill' the air space above the oil. As for your humidity issue and wood expansion/shrinkage, this is a perpetual problem with wood. One can minimize this by building the hull in low humidity times of year. When humidity rises, things will tend to swell together rather than shrink apart. A finish on the wood will also slow down changes due to humidity. It is no accident that museums and art galleries control both temperature and humidity. I also use a humidifier at home during winter months in Canada.
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    Lovely work as ever, Ed. The enclosures look quite low; what height were they?
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    Elegant as well as useful!
  10. druxey
    Ai! That's a lot of things to consider. Thanks for walking us through this stage of creating a 3D file that is printable. Except that, if I were to try it, I'd be saying things that were unprintable!
  11. druxey
    Well done, Maury! My only comment would be that the berthing up on the quarter deck and the rail above it look rather wide: I think it is due to the fact that the moulded way of the top timbers are too wide. However, you've a major achievement by completing this fully framed cross-section. Take a bow!
  12. druxey
    Nice going, Dan. Small point: top and butt is not quite the same thing as anchor stock. In the former the 'arms' of the pieces are of unequal length, usually 2:1 ratio, whereas the latter has equally tapered 'arms'.
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    Congratulations on completion of a years' work, Dan. Andrea looks great. I hope that your client is very happy with the end result.
  14. druxey
    Daniel: I'm sure Livesay means towed, but the term lowered from made me think about how the boats got into the water.
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    Interesting kludge on the cam frame! Your note about available widths of deck planking is interesting as well, Glenn. And your work is impeccable, as usual.
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    Davits aside, look at the Turner sketch of December 1805. In the foreground is an anchor and capstan. Are these at the end of a dock that Turner is standing on to make his sketch? And what is the spar above them? Livesay's note reads: "Victory Decr 1806 had two boats lowered from astern during the whole Action" (my italics). Question: how were they lowered, or did he simply mean that they were towed astern?
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    Good to see you back at the workbench, Robert. Lovely work, as ever.
  18. druxey
    Le sabord flottant has vanished! Where will it reappear? Coming along nicely, John. Bon appetit.
  19. druxey
    Check out watchmakers' tweezers on eBay. I've collected a variety of shapes that can do things that would be impossible with fingers alone.
  20. druxey
    Ah! Now I understand why the companion ladders are the S-shape they take. It now makes sense. Lovely progress. What is the box that looks like a ticket booth?
  21. druxey
    Daniel: I got a 'Fehler' notice when trying your url.
  22. druxey
    Neat solution, Michael!
  23. druxey
    Many of us know all about age and arthritis. I find a selection of watchmakers' tweezers invaluable. Regardless, your work is terrific!
  24. druxey
    I agree that properly proportioned belaying pins on models are the exception rather than the rule! My own workaround was to make the pin in two parts: the straight shank and the contoured handle. The handles have short pins for insertion into the rack. Of course Remco's and your own solution to turning small diameter parts is far more elegant!
  25. druxey
    I would defer to an expert such as John Harland. I retract my statement of 'bogus'! Thanks also to Robin for his observations on French contemporary models. I'll go back to my corner now.

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