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Thanks for gentle comments and birthday wishes, everyone. Jerry.... I need a new keyboard after that one... Michael, The board is as small as I can make it and still use the stand to support it when I flip it. Also, all my measurements use the base board as a refence and I need room for the tool. There will be a day when she's cut free.... I learned that upside down trick seemingly eons ago for both painting and photography. Works a treat. Aldo, I've been playing with the wood and I think stepping the thickness and then sanding to shape will work. We'll see. Popeye, You're psychic... I did that.. day after my 18th, I joined the USMC but didn't leave for boot camp until September. Ah... noon has arrived. The day's yard work has been finished, the BBQ is cleaned and ready to fire up (though I don't need a holiday or special occasion to use it) and it's officially "beer-o'clock". Because of the distance involved... I'll share a virtual beer with everyone. For those who don't... coffee...
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Beautiful stern work, Sherry. See... gunports... easy. Just turn the proper termites....er.... tools loose on them. (They look great, BTW). I can't imagine a 3 hour mowing job on a rider. Mine takes 20 minutes (from pulling off the cover, mowing, and replacing the cover) on the riding mower which gives me more time for "other things"...
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Nice work on the brackets. Lovely cannon barrels also. I'm still considering the French guns they offer.
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Echo by oneslim - cross-section
mtaylor replied to oneslim's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
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Squaring Mini Drillpress to Work?
mtaylor replied to Jay 1's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Jay, First thing I check is the squareness of the X-Y table to the head/bit. If these aren't square, no matter how much you fiddle with the workpiece, it just won't drill the way you want. I use a small square between the workpiece and the bit on both my drill press and my mill. Get's tricky with something that's not square from the surface to be drilled to the table/vise and shims help with that. -
Richard, I use both tools. The upper picture of my first post, the pen sander works well on the decks, hulls, etc. The lower one, I've used for lintels and other things. It's just becomes a choice of picking the right tool for the work in front of me.
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What do you use your mill for ?
mtaylor replied to captainbob's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Here's a couple of links to get you started.... I know I've posted them before but now can't find the conversation they were used in.... http://www.littlemachineshop.com/Info/getting_started.php http://www.mini-lathe.com/Mini_mill/Main/mini-mill.htm I'm a newbie at basically all power tools but learning is part of the fun.... -
Thanks Rusty for the info. I have a small sample and after seeing your use of it, I'm thinking this wood could be very useful.
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What do you use your mill for ?
mtaylor replied to captainbob's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Tom, End mills are best left to what you can buy commercially. If you're doing side milling or special shapes and using the mill like router, different story. I wish MSW had never crashed. Roma used nails, broken bits, etc. for routing. I've played with it a bit when I did the bitts on my Triton Cross-Section. Once the through holes were drilled, I could connect them with a slot (faking the sheave) using a broken drill bit. -
Rusty, You continue to push the bar higher.. Love the colors. I never thought of redheart for bulwarks but that looks great. Question, I understand redheart darkens with time. Do you know if a finish will stop that? Or like cherry, does it just get darker and darker?
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Now don't just put on the bookshelf... :P
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I did my share of crashing... er... flying, control line craft back in the late 60's. Great fun... and great angst with the crashes. I should have started with a trainer. Live and learn.
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Tools for scratch building
mtaylor replied to ronald305's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
What Jay said is correct and also great advice. If you've not built a ship (or any wood model, for that matter), start simple with an easy kit, then something more difficult. This will build your confidence level and also give you knowledge and experience. The other item is a build log. You'll get help and encouragement. -
Piet, Thanks for sharing this. It makes history come alive for those us without that personal connection. I can only wonder what that visit did for you and your grandson.
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Looks good Robbyn. We have to remember that the macro lens is not our friend. If it looks good at normal viewing distance, it's good to go.
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Thanks guys. B.E., to my knowledge they used butt joints. But look at the cross-section attachment. This ship has a blending of the wales to the planking. I'm still figuring out how to get the taper right.
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Wow.... looks great Meredith. I like the colors.
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Thanks for the kind words, gentlemen. Mario, It's been in the 80's until Friday.. it's now 106o F here. Well, it's been a week of hell at work with long days and seemingly short nights and this coming week isn't promising to get any better. But I did manage to finally get the first strake laid and after a bit of tweaking, I'm happy. I flipped the photo to see it "right side up". This is the first strake above the wales. I'm planking upward... or downward....or fiddlesticks...towards the chain wale as this is lower in profile than the wales and I can sand them without damaging the wales. The wale line goes pretty much straight back from the bow and about 2/3rds of the way, it starts sweeping upward. The width is pretty consistant from 6 planks wide at the stern, through the mid-ships to about 1/3rd of the way from the bow then ends up a the bow 6-1/2 planks wide. I'll get creative with some wider wood at the bow area or slip in a stealer... maybe a half-checked stealer... ???
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Daniel, As always, not only a wonderful build but informative and fun. By the way, that man at the end of the table. Why is he sleeping instead of eating?
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JP, While I agree with everyone else about the treenails, it is your ship. But paint???? Seriously, do what you think is right.
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Adriaan, In spite of setbacks, she looks good. Those little details keep adding to the appearance. I hope the infection gets cleared up and no more antibiotics will be needed. Nasty side effects with most of them it seems.
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My, you have been busy... all that and still managed to breathe and eat? Wow! Cool serviing machine. BTW, remind me again...who's serving machine did you buy? I don't feel like digging back x-number of pages. Been a long week last week and this week is shaping up the same way.
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Augie, Just a super nice job of rigging you've done. But please catch something and come back. I have a mental image of Sjors in charge......
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Just great... absolutely a great bowsprit. Well done, Popeye.
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Good to see you escaped from vacation, Mario.. :D Looking super nice. I guess now we can tell that the stern is where the rudders are?
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