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Looking good from here. A bit of cleanup with a round file or wrap a piece of fine sandpaper around a dowel of appropriate size and Bob's your uncle.
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Oskar, I sent you a PM.
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Lowes is good for brass but I've found the local hobbyshop carries a larger selection. I've not tried Home Depot for brass.... yet.
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Beyond apprentice, Carl. At least journeyman and probably more like master.
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You'll have to contact the The Lumberyard. Here's the link: http://www.dlumberyard.com/shipkits.html As for plans, generally we don't show plans in our logs unless reduced in size. Part of it is due to piracy and other is when you shrink the plans down to the size for image in log, nothing is legible.
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Steve, I have question... is the railing in pic below glued in place? I looks to be askew. Otherwise, all looks perfect.
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Nicolas, You might even think about building a model using Harold Hahn plans. The frames are stylized as far as method and the spacing isn't true to the real ships as this was stylized also.
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Hi Jo, Looks good from here. Try this though.. close your eyes and run your fingers lightly over the hull. What you want to find out is if there any bumps, dips, or plank ends sticking. As for thinking about your next model, that's not uncommon. I daresay you're getting hooked on this hobby. Edit: Looks like John and I cross-posted. The cat is right.
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Thanks Mark, and to every one else. I'll be starting the next 2 boats in the morning. I'm going to work them at the same time as it'll save me some repetition time like having to reset the laser for each thickness of wood since I can cut two with one setting. I'm finishing up tweaking the drawings from what I learned on the first one. So diving off the deep end again but into familiar waters.
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Teddy, It's not an uncommon fear and many us probably didn't recognize it. But I'll offer the same advice that many of us offer to those just starting out on wooden models. Start small. Maybe a rowboat or similar and no more than one mast. Definitely start a build log. The folks here have all been there and are very supportive. After you complete that one, go to one with two masts and keep it fairly simple, maybe a couple of cannon. Then go for three masts. Your skiff would be a good one to start with. But depending on the age of the kit, the wood might too brittle (dried out) to work with. The most important thing is: "have fun". Don't sweat mistakes, everyone makes them even the advanced scratch builders. But from your years in woodworking, I'm sure you know that "it's wood, it can be fixed".
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I'd go with what Frankie said and recommend that you take a sample of the thread with you.
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Now that is a tale for the ages, Vossie. I needed a good laugh and got it from the part about being on the ground after flying back and senior officer pops his head into the cockpit.
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Looks to me like the that first two or three steps are going to whoppers.... "Over the side, lads!!!!"
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Forget the play and the movie... one needs to read the books. Or at least the first one. I think your hull is looking great. A bit of filler where the red circle is along with a light sanding and you're ready for the final planking of the hull. I'm not sure if they have you do other things between the first and second planking so follow directions.
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I've been cheating a bit then lately by not using ebony. I've been using boxwood, cut, fit, sand, get it look right in position and they dye the wood with ebony stain. When dry (2nd coat if necessary) a mild light sanding with 800 grit sandpaper and glue into place. It's a bit of a pain, but the wood looks good and I'm not having to contend with ebony dust.
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Eric, Wouldn't need for hogchains be more important for down river with the heavy cotton bail loads then up north? I'd think on Missouri, that a bit of hull flex might have been good thing just because as you state, they had the sandbar problem. The Ohio has it's shallows upriver as I recall so what worked there might be good for the Missouri.
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Super nice build, CDW. And flight videos are just stunning in my opinion. Spent more time than I should have watching those on Youtube and following various links around to other videos.
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Welcome to MSW. Since you didn't say if its the San Francisco or the San Francisco2, go to the link below and click on "wooden ships". It will download a PDF of all the builds for wooden ship kits here on MSW. There's a pile of San Francisco's listed.
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Is the brass clean? Sometimes they coat brass and nothing sticks to it. Test by putting two small pieces into some acetone for a while and rinse, dry and see of the glue sticks.
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Hmmm..... this might be a good time to do that. I'll put the kit and make a list of supplies I'll need (paint and glue mostly).
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Thanks Downer for pointing that out. Seems I'm missing the obvious sometimes and once it's mentioned, it's face palm time and "Dooooh".
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Lou, You're missing a perfect opportunity here that even has doctor's orders. You're sitting. Do with a build. Evil, I know I am.
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I did some re-work without breaking anything (yeah for me!). The pieces are now back in place.
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