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druxey

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  1. So much advice already, but ask yourself whether you'll be mainly sitting or standing. If sitting, what height is the chair? Is it adjustable in height? And, most important, what is you own height and reach?
  2. You might try to briefly soak the piece in warm water, then clamp it between wood boards for 24 hours or weight it flat using layers of paper to wick away the moisture.
  3. For drawing, wood, a pair of parallel pliers work better.
  4. Pett's 'method' was quite simple and elegant. Unfortunately his methods were lost, and only recently discovered, as he died before writing about them.
  5. Moneypenny and Antscherl, A Restoration Yacht’s Design Secrets Revealed, Mariners Mirror, Volume 107, Issue 2, May 2021. Yes, Hubac, the model in the photo is the result of the article quoted. No fudging required at the bow!
  6. I can't reproduce research from Mariner's Mirror here, but Phineas Pett in the 1670's and 80's had developed a sophisticated method of designing a fair hull - stem to stern - using arcs and a cono-cuneus curve. These were all proportional to the length of keel and moulded breadth. Here is a hull (work in progress) developed by this method:
  7. Well done for making the correction! The dolphins thank you as well.
  8. It is a fascinating rabbit hole down which to wander!
  9. Welcome aboard, RH. There are plans of the Fish class in the Royal Museums Greenwich collection: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-85908 https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-85907 https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-85909
  10. Often the stay part of the channel is narrower than the main part; the Boston example above indicates this variation.
  11. Great impression, Keith! And yes, wefalk, 'modern' synthetic is braided rather than spun. However, I suppose one strand of spun line could be colored to give the correct impression.
  12. Thank s for these examples, Waldemar. Would you consider that some of these curves may also have been made using a tapered batten pulled, bow fashion, into a curve?
  13. Congratulations and well done, Toni. Lovely result of a sweet subject. Of course, now the the question is; what next?
  14. Very instructive, Waldemar! Thank you for that. I've been studying English derivation of ship's lines in the 1680's. Many curves are based on circular arcs, but not all. Some are based on the cono-cuneus curve.
  15. Superb work as ever, Keith. Perhaps I missed this; but how did you replicate the color-coded synthetic line?
  16. Iron (or 'yron') knees take up much less valuable room inboard than wooden ones, so it is a logical choice.
  17. Nice to see you reappear, Claire! That is a sweet prototype to model.
  18. At this point you can probably rig this mast in your sleep. Perhaps that's what you dream about anyway!
  19. Nice to see you back, Michael. You can always post the GWR coach build log on "Shore leave" - hint!
  20. I understand the generation of the curve aft from '1', but how do you define the curve from '1' to the stem?
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