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BikerPete
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Love your videos, thanks for sharing your skills and insight.
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I've noticed drawing to part mismatches on some of the kits I have mangled. The St. Roch (Billings) profile drawing does not closely match the profile of the keel bulkhead and the HMS Granado side-view drawing was short compared to the wood parts. Judging by the discrepancies I don't think it was drawing shrinkage but maybe copier error. In the old days when I worked on model railroad stuff there were definite dimensional shifts produced using certain brands of copiers --- horizontal would be dead on but verticals would be shortened. Now days you have to be careful with "fit to source" options when printing, that can distort a copy slightly and is hard to notice if the adjustment applied by the print software is small. Mis-match is annoying and there is no easy way to deal with it in Kit with pre-cut parts. I generally use the pre-cut parts as-is and mark up the drawing as needed to show actual dimensions of the parts. After a certain point in the build most pieces are cut to fit the existing structure so drawing issues become less of an problem. PBerghs
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Thanks for the info , I'll rig up a drying box and give it a try! Pb
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Jaager --- Thanks for the instructions. That helps a lot. The tree salvager uses an industrial band-saw type sawmill to do his work but never got to the piece I have due to an upcoming relocation. Even just one flat/plane surface would make my job easier. I'm probably going to chainsaw off both ends fairly shallow to get a look at the internal structure then trim off some of the branch ends that are protruding. A woodworker guy left a bunch of tools with me about 6 years ago then never came back for them. He has not been in contact so I'll use his big chainsaw that comes with a fence to make a cut down the centre. If I get a wobbly cut I might be able to hand plane flat surfaces for re-sawing. After that I should be able to map out the rest of the cuts. It is a fun mental exercise working this out. The hard part right now is holding the log steady while cutting. Pb
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I just picked up a 6 foot log , about 10 inches in diameter, from a local tree salvager. Now I have to figure out how to cut it down into useful lumber. There is some splitting at the ends and it is not the straightest log but there should be some good stuff inside. A lot of the crabapple trees up here in Alberta get a lot of rot and broken limbs but this chunk looks pretty good. I also picked up some elm, ash and poplar rough planks. A test cut of the poplar shows that it has a very nice structure but fairly pronounced grey and white shading. The white portions will be very o.k. if I can cut the wood right. Not bad for 40 dollars. The lumber guy missed out on an old pear orchard....that would have been nice to pick through. He is going to call me if he gets anymore decent apple...most goes for smokers and firewood! P. Berghs
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