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  1. AON
    Well done!
  2. AON
    Yup. I will dig it up this afternoon and PM you.
  3. AON
    Quarterdeck beam cut, shaped and dry fitted. I will work on the roundhouse beam tomorrow(?). Once I have all the horizontal beams made and dry fitted I will work on the vertical beams. At the point I will cut the notches for them.
  4. AON
    Actually yes y'all are. I'm not crazy. But what ever I am, I'm in the best of company!
  5. AON
    The wood has been in my basement for about 10 years so it is aclimated. I won't throw it out because it is good wood... just not for this project. I will do it over.
  6. AON
    Yup, I've been studying your build and made a cardboard template yesterday afternoon!
  7. AON
    reloaded. Hope that works.
  8. AON
    Don't be talking about the Mrs and my wood. 😲
  9. AON
    Yes Druxey. So it is like in religion ... t'is a mystery? Hence I ask the masses here as I hope for a light to help understand and hope for a full recovery so I can reassemble the original pieces properly.
  10. AON
    Hmmm.... I can see them. Is anyone else not seeing them?
  11. AON
    Finally have the doorway cills installed. What a pain in the butt that was! Not very clean looking.... but my best effort. Now I am trying to imagine how to make the beams that go across the stern (side to side) as they curve outwards (aft) and have a curve upwards (rise in the deck) and are notched. The notches are for the vertical stern beams that are sloped aftwards making the notches sloped.
  12. AON
    Well that got your attention! I have a hard maple wooden frame 24" x 30" with four corner tongue and groove joints. They were glued with yellow PVA carpenters wood glue. I had to take them apart so I wrapped the corners in cloth, soaked the cloth with 91% Isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol and wrapped that in plastic wrap so the alcohol would not evaporate. Left it overnight. Next morning each joint came apart easily. Cleaned the joints of residual glue and dry fitted them back together. The tongues are 3/16"shorter when they were originally flush to the outside of the grooves. This logically seems like shrinkage... due to the Isopropyl alcohol(?) I have not experienced this before in model building as the parts are so small (not 24" x 30") so I guess it was simply not noticeable. I soaked the tongues in water and left them 24 hours. Now they are each about 1/8" short. Has anybody experienced this before? How long will it take to recover? Will it recover?
  13. AON
    Speaking of punishment, I was surprised to read a paper explaining that punishments were not immediate. Charges would be laid but the "trial" would be days, or weeks afterwards, giving the offender ample time to think about it. Then when the trial was over and punishment awarded (what a strange term for it) there would be another delay of weeks or months afterwards. I also read that the cat-o-nine tails was tied by the offender and used on him for his punishment alone. It rarely tore up the skin as depicted on movies but did leave the fellow severely battered and bruised.... I imagine akin to going too many rounds with a prize fighting boxer but your hands are tied to upright standing grating so you cannot fight back! Not something I'd want to test and prove. I had enough as a youngster having to go fetch my fathers wide leather belt and getting my own version metered out too many times on my bottom. I was a troublesome lad, but grew out of it.
  14. AON
    How does this differ from the boxed borax powder bought off the shelf at the grocery store in the laundry detergent aisle? Other than the obvious pressed cone shape. Maybe it has to do with the way you use it?
  15. AON
    As mentioned... the crew outnumbered the seats of ease and when the weather was too bad or the line too long and they couldn't wait their turn or there was no room in the open grating they went below and "added to the ballast". This was a chargeable offence so they had to be stealthy and quick about it. Cleaning the bilges was a regular occurrence as the excrement would muck up the pumps. I cannot imagine the disgust of the Captain seeing this flow out of a pump and across the deck.
  16. AON
    I find it interesting how you reduced the sail area... lowering the head, as I had seen this once before where the fellow scalloped the foot. The end result is all that matters, and yours look pretty darned good! Well done. You taught me something today. Thank you. I imagine play rope snugging tag is as much fun as you make it out to be
  17. AON
    short frame removed new long frame installed doorways cut in next update will be installing the cills
  18. AON
    post a question in a forum topic like this one: https://modelshipworld.com/forum/17-model-tips-and-tricks-and-making-jigs/ and ask for help on how to properly clean dust a model. There is a technique with Q-tips, saliva, elbow grease and lots of time used by professionals. Some might suggest how to safely do a first stage cleaning. I've not done it, only been told and read about it and physically seen the before and results after.
  19. AON
    Forgive my ignorance but I cannot see anything other than it needing a damn good cleaning and a dust protective display case. I also think that if you like it, it is worth every bit of energy you are willing to put into it to bring it to the state you wish it were at. I for one like it very much. Great eye and good recovery (from the dump). In my home town dump they would have tackled me and fined me, then took the model and try to sell it! 😁
  20. AON
    Here are some drawings I made this morning. I will email them to Bob. As I have the free hobbyist version of Fusion 360 there are things it will not let me do so some overall dimensions (from a corner of the object to the extreme end of a radius ) are missing. My copper pins were from standard house wiring (16 or 12 gauge, not sure at the moment) and the alidade (pointer), hub, and retainer cap were sanded to fit together as a friction fit. The pointer stays where it is pointing, it does not swivel freely. If I were doing this again I'd make the pointer a wee bit longer and my embossed number angle) a wee bit larger. Mariner's Astrolabe Body.pdf Mariner's Astrolabe Alidade.pdf Mariner's Astrolabe Cap.pdf Mariner's Astrolabe Upper Swivel + Ring.pdf Mariner's Astrolabe Lower Swivel.pdf
  21. AON
    Hello Bob, You missed a good Model Shipwrights of Niagara meeting yesterday. Would you be building yours in metal (brass or copper plate)? What size paper can you print on? I can make a full size 2D drawing of a front view and side view of my model quite easily and will send it to you after I discover more of what you intend and can print.
  22. AON
    Got most of the sanding done today. Decided to mark off the top timbers and cut those back and mark off and install the gallery side doors to the officers toilets (seats of ease) and get those done (install the cills) before I complete the sanding. While marking the timbers for the doorways I discovered I had one short adjacent timber located improperly... it needed to be the next one over. I suppose I should have triple checked. So I need to remove that pair (port and starboard or larboard if we're being correct for the period) and reinstall longer timbers before I cut any doorways. I will post a photo when I'm done.
  23. AON
    got my last frame installed yesterday and the chocks (spacers) today. Will start sanding Monday or Tuesday and cut in the doorways.
  24. AON
    Excellant photos!
  25. AON
    Sprial type wire binding I think.

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