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druxey

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  1. Actual gratings have the noched strips laid athwartships and battens half the depth, unnotched, running fore and aft.
  2. This is looking better and better, Greg!
  3. Keith's cleaning advice is good, but a more hygienic method than using a brush is to moisten a Q-tip with your saliva, then dispose! Repeat.... Al: I believe that an e-book version of Rob's book is or will shortly be available. No postage costs!
  4. I am shocked. Shocked, I tell you! But sworn to secrecy as Montaigne has mentioned.
  5. It's almost impossible not to use a little filler. I recommend Lepage's wood filler. Many folk use the automotive body filler, Bondo.
  6. Or simply rest the brass piece on the ceramic tile while heating it using the torch and enjoying your crème brûlée. Bon appetit! Hint: you can see the colour of the metal change better under dim light.
  7. Keiths cleaning advice is good, but a more hygienic method than using a brush is to moisten a Q-tip with your saliva, then dispose! Repeat....
  8. You can probably use the gas stove to get brass to cherry-red heat, but holding it safely while doing it would be the issue.
  9. Love the details such as the hammock racks under the beams. 'Alfregue' is coming along nicely!
  10. Yes, Claire; worth re-reading from time to time. A wonderful imaginary world.... Bless your great-aunt for giving you that gift.
  11. Might I suggest off-white? Bright white does not look good at scale size. And I presume that this wonder material can be painted to any other wood color the builder fancies.
  12. Ah, Wind in the Willows. A delightful book for all ages! “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” And yours is the most comfortable dory ever seen.
  13. Constraining the quarter blocks using a lashing contrasts with British practice: they used cleats to prevent the blocks from moving out. Beautifully done.
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