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That's what a saw is for Brian, to remove large amounts of material. Then finish off with a sander of some sort.
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If I had known you were coming Ferit I would have treated you all to lunch! You can almost see my house in a couple of those pictures of Turunç and that view of the bay from the top of the hill greets me every time I come back to the village from Marmaris or where ever. I never tire of it (I'm in the northern corner but my house is obscured by trees. I'm glad you had a good holiday and returned to Istanbul safe and sound. Hayırlı olsun! -
Belt/disc sander questions
Yambo replied to md1400cs's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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I've been quietly watching your build Bob and it's coming along lovely. You don't hang about! As it's been 7 days since your last update I'm guessing its finished! I was looking at a couple of YouTube videos earlier and this caught my eye. It's only a taster, I'm guessing there's a longer video on the horizon, and it's not a Junior but it is a John Alden Malabar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC9BTQnp-s
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PopJack, I'll be following along mate, and interested. My Model Shipways Bluenose currently resides with my son in Denver, Colorado and I'm in Turkey. He might bring it this way later in the year if the US authorities finally get round to issuing him his green card or I might get to the States and bring it back with me. We'll see. Anyway, I'll be watching your build just as I watch a few others; I may not post a lot on the build logs but I watch with interest many of them. Yours is now on the list. I need you to sort every little problem out for me. OK? I may have more available time than you so you never know, I may even catch you up but for UPS to ship it to Turkey is $300 so it won't be travelling that way. So, I'm not sure when it'll be started, even less sure when it'll be finished.
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I've had family and friends staying since May both at my house and in the village Ferit - it's great to have time with my grandchildren and help them enjoy their holiday. With people in the house I have to convert my work room into a bedroom and spend what would normally be hobby time doing other things like swimming, snorkeling, and eating out (no-one wants to cook when they come to visit, why is that?). But my house is now empty . . . Despite it's charms, Turunç is quiet this year with tourist numbers down. Some of my friends will suffer a bit I think.
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I haven't posted on your build for a long time Ferit but don't think that I have been ignoring you. I look in at every new post. Your Berlin is looking magnificent and you should be very proud of your achievements so far. You have done some beautiful work on her. Like all your watchers I know that the rest of the rigging will be perfect. Çok akıllı örümcekler!
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I too am looking at a DB 250 in the new year so interested in comments. I noticed some time ago that guraus (Alexandru) has a few proxxon tools showing in the pictures of his scratch build of Victory. Maybe a pm to him to ask for his overall opinion and perhaps respond on this thread.
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Istanbul is just a hot-bed of boat building talent, isn't it! Beautiful work Ilhan and I agree with Mark, a good tutorial and useful pictures of jigs!
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Bulwarks: ply vs solid wood
Yambo replied to rtropp's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
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That's a beautiful model Thanasis. I also like the way you've mounted it on a pair of cleats, it looks just right.
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Drafsight v's Autocad LY2002
Yambo replied to michael mott's topic in CAD and 3D Modelling/Drafting Plans with Software
Thanks to cog on here I'm happily using my AutoCad 2002LT on my Windows 7 computer. Cog told me about Virtualbox which I downloaded onto this computer. I then loaded Windows XP into Virtualbox and AutoCad into the Windows XP virtual computer. It works a treat. Thanks once again cog! -
ancre LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Yambo replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
I understand Karl, because of all the internal detail. But, I am sure they are not 3 individual pieces. If you wanted to, would they fit together? My guess is that they would.- 662 replies
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I've soaked thin plywood loads of times Popeye with no problems. If it does de-laminate though I'd simply stick some glue in the gap and clamp it. My Skerry shown on the 'Latest full profile . . ' is nearly all plywood and all of the side panels were soaked in hot water without a problem.
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I made one of these a few years back. There's no way you can plank it the way they say in the instructions. The first time I tried I got as far as the knuckle on the frames, took all the planks off and started again having read up on how to plank a hull. Just about all of the planks needed to be shaped. I put about 5 planks each side starting from the sheer then started again from the garboard plank. It took me a lot longer than I first expected. But as Cap'n Rat Fink says. it makes a nice model. Mine's in a bar in the village somewhere. I've also got the timber to do one twice the size but I've got a bit on at the moment.
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Freezer Paper - an awesome tool
Yambo replied to Mahuna's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
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Just click on the picture Sjors!
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ancre LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Yambo replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Congratulations on finishing part 2 of your masterpiece Karl. When you have completed part 3, will they all fit together?- 662 replies
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I found this after a quick google - http://forums.turbocad.com/index.php?topic=1789.0 It's a TurboCad forum and it seems that TurboCad can save as .dxf but there might be issues.
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The laser cutter will work from the software that comes with it. That software should recognise a .dxf file at least. If TurboCad can save drawings as a .dxf file that'll be the way to go. The guy who cut my bits was using Corel Draw as his main drawing program, I use AutoCad. Both can save files in .dxf format and that file is imported into the machine software. Hope this helps.
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I don't know about the machines themselves Lextin but I've had some bits and pieces laser cut by an acquaintance in Marmaris (I live in Turkey). I draw the piece on AutoCad, save it as a DXF file so that his software will recognise it and a few minutes later I have a piece of wood exactly the size I want. It's cool. But, if your drawing is wrong . . . The first time I tried the process out was for a set of hands for a cuckoo clock. After drawing the two hands (I used the old broken hands as a guide) I snipped off a bit of 1mm mahogany ply (surplus material from a laser cut sheet from a boat kit). I laminated both sides of the ply with some thin fibreglass, got them cut and they came out really good. On the drawing I reduced the size of the spindle by around 0.1mm and the hands fitted perfectly. I'm just finishing off a 1:10 model of a CLC Skerry and I could easily have had all the bits laser cut. I didn't though, I just had the long hull panels done that way There's a picture on post #27 of the Latest Full Profile thread. I should probably update it . . . I've just drawn up the rudder parts on AutoCad and printed them off but I'll be cutting them out on the scroll saw. I'll have them done in the time it would take me to get into town and back. I like the technique. But again the drawing needs to be right.
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Thanks Paul, I had the op (triple by-pass) back in 2007. In the last year I have put 2 million metres on my rowing machine, 42,195 of those (a marathon) were done in 3 hours 18 minutes - 19 minutes faster than I ran a marathon 29 years ago. The doc, at the time, said I was good for 20 - 25 years so I'm reducing the number each year. Your build is excellent with superb attention to detail. I've been looking in since you started it. I greatly admire your work.
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You take your time Paul, the surgeon that re-plumbed my heart says I'm good for at least another 15 years.
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I'm also a fan of epoxy - well fan isn't perhaps the right word - but I use it quite a lot especially where it can't be seen. For example I'll almost always use it to strengthen keel/bulkead joints. I thicken it with sawdust, silica or microfibres (which is really nasty stuff and requires a mask to be worn). I do a bit of work on full size boats and epoxy, while being expensive has no real substitute for glueing, fibreglassing, filling etc. If your models are going in the water then epoxy is imho the best coating for a hull and one thing I learned many years ago is how to do holes -drill, fill with epoxy and drill again so that the edges of the holes are treated.
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