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  1. druxey
    The method you need is to taper the square stick first. Then cut the octagonal and round sections to an octagon by the 7-10-7 proportion across each flat. Finally round off the octagon where the stick is to be round and voila! A perfect mast or spar. One book that illustrated this process is in The Fully Framed Model, Volume IV.
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    Lovely looking work, Pete. Can you explain the advantage of using alcohol over water for soaking the frames please?
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    That volute looks pretty good to me, Maury! It 'flows' from the straight to the curved section, and you've done that very nicely.
  4. druxey
    Crown supplies Castello Boxwood, not the European variety. However, I find it carves very well.
  5. druxey
    Ah, the Curse of Cumulative Error! Glad you overcame it, Toni.
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    A bas-relief carving would probably be no more than 3" or 4" thick. Well carved, it gives the illusion of greater depth.
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    It is as avsjerome shows it, Nils.
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    Lovely. However, the ensign staff and flag were struck when under sail: that mizzen sail and boom swinging across would wipe it out! Under sail the ensign would fly from the gaff peak instead.
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    Yes, those serpentine curves - plus the transverse curve - are very tricky to do, but you've nailed it, Siggi!
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    Mike Y: 80-grit will remove stock rapidly, but I stop long before getting down to the final surface. as it leaves deep scratches. I wouldn't use it for more than the really rough work. For wood, getting beyond 325 or 400-grit is counter-productive.
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    Most Boleys are 8mm but a few older ones are 6mm, Matle.
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    Marcus: your new avatar is surely of Marcus Piscatorius?
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    Interesting selection, Mike. Another good source for small, quality tweezers is watchmakers' or jewellery supply houses. The quality of these is much higher than, say, Micro Mark. Then there's always eBay....
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    I'm sure that every captain adjusted mast rake to suit himself and get the best out of his rig.
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    Hey, if it works.... It doesn't have to look beautiful as well! Your home made line looks very nice. I assume you intended to make it left hand lay.
  16. druxey
    Here is a copy of an illustration from Steel of 1794, showing two reef points in every cloth. However, artistic license (and polys) may take precedence!
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    Beautifully rendered, Magnus. You'll hate me for pointing this out, but there were actually two reef points per cloth on topsails as well as the courses! We'll allow for artistic license here, won't we?
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    The crosspiece is placed low so that you could pass a line under it and haul it up tight on the other side. It gives one a good angle of pull. Over the years I've discovered that nothing on a ship was placed by accident: it's all part of a well thought out or well developed design.
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    Adroitly done, Ed. A nice piece of machining ratchets.
  20. druxey
    That idea had also crossed my mind, Mark.
  21. druxey
    It's a satisfying moment to cap the timbers, isn't it? Nice finish on your plank sheer rail!
  22. druxey
    Nice drawings! I suppose to prove the workability of this arrangement you could run the complete engine mechanism on compressed air.
  23. druxey
    I love the shape of this vessel now it's developed. It's always nice to see something a little different modelled, so thanks for sharing this with us, Clare.
  24. druxey
    And Brunel's machinery still works after 200 years! It's a fascinating story about the beginnings of industrial mass-production.
  25. druxey
    One could always model engineer Brunel's blockmaking machinery at Portsmouth and mass-produce blocks that way....

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