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druxey

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  1. I believe that Jim is working on a spindle sander. I hope that he is!
  2. Sweet! I've always liked the French design hull lines, especially the hollow forefoot. A prochain, Monsieur!
  3. Mica is easily worked, David. It comes in layered sheets. These sheets (think millefeuille pastry!) split apart very easily, so you can get a very thin layer if you wish. It can be cut with a blade or sharp scissors. The only drawback is that there are many inclusions in the material, so you need to select the clearest pieces out of your sheet.
  4. Usually 'Waldos' are attached to the top timber beside them with a long scarph. I've not seen an independent one such as your illustration shows. Very interesting!
  5. Bonne chance, mon ami! I'm finding your thread fascinating.
  6. Yes, John, it's all about projection, but not in the psychological sense of the word!
  7. This way madness lies.... It begs the question, why make things simple if you can make them complicated? Good luck with this partial square/partial cant frame (if I'm seeing this correctly, that is),
  8. There's always ordering on the Internet if the drive is too iffy!
  9. Good to read of Judy recovering. Making hinges on a snowy day is good therapy as well. They look terrific. I have some miniature burrs that I use as countersinks. Do you have such things?
  10. No pins in the bitts, in my opinion, Siggi. The rails at the bulwarks are where lines were belayed at that time period. Other lines tied off at the bitts around the crosspiece and standard timberheads.
  11. A most graphic description of a magazine explosion!
  12. There is only one woolding on the mizzen mast, at the bottom of the hounds, Sigge. If there were more, the gaff would not be able to slide up and down without catching. Clearly, the mizen mast is not a made mast. Your furniture - especially the table, Windsor chairs and cabinetry - is lovely. I imagine books were all leather-bound back then. Somehow the yellow book jumps out at me. The large number of belaying pins in racks and on the cross-pieces began to appear once the open rails along the quarter deck and poop were closed in. It was then no longer possible to belay along the rails. So you would not see many belaying pins in 1760, as all the rails were open then. The partners at poop level would be very light, so just the circle of wedges around the mast would be visible, as in your last photo.
  13. Another book that may assist: The Fireship Comet of 1783, SeaWatchBooks. This has an extensive section on the stern and quarter galleries as well as the headwork and carved works.
  14. A one-piece deck is only realistic if there is no tumblehome on the topsides. If there is, one can't get a wide deck through a narrower space!
  15. Very neat tabled scarph joints as well!
  16. I know that in British practice, the merchant ships were plated from above to the the keel, but it was from keel to wale in Navy yards! This explains Edwin Fox, a merchant ship. Then there are the French.... It now appears to me that the illustration posted (Planche VII) that the overlap is such that one starts at the wale and works down. (I clicked the illustration to enlarge it this time.) Sorry if I created confusion in your mind, Mark!
  17. With all due respect, the drawing shows the overlaps in such a way so one needs to start at the keel aft and work forward, strake by strake upward.
  18. I'm glad that things are on course again for you, Bob. That's good to hear. For those that are thinking of getting this volume - do. It's a full colour production with first and second-rate ships and eye-candy galore from the Rogers' Collection.
  19. Draft marks were 6" high and 6" apart, so one could estimate the number of inches between feet that the ship drew. Nice example of lead over copper, jbshan.
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