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  1. AON
    Excellent photo of the brass tube support.... it answered all my questions. Even the ones I didn't know I had yet!
  2. AON
    looking more and more like life size
  3. AON
    Stay safe.
  4. AON
    The ones I knew had not changed much in those hundred years...only when they started using fiberglass hulls a few years after my time. I hadn't appreciate the American cutter was considerably different. Always have time to learn something different.
  5. AON
    Thank you for the link to the photos and lines. This is not like the cutter I was familiar with in the very early 70's which explains my confusion... I thought it was my mind slipping again. 🤪 Alan
  6. AON
    Have you a photo of the area from the real boat you can share? It will help me appreciate what you're assembling as opposed to what I think I remember from 50 years ago. Alan
  7. AON
    Apparently (per a video I watch a short while ago) cleaning out the sawdust from all the nooks and crannies in and under table saws should be a regular occurance to avoid an electrical fire.
  8. AON
    To put that in perspective... That is about the thickness of 4 human hairs side by side.
  9. AON
    The wife claims she heard you using your "sailor words" ... muffled as it was due to the distance.
  10. AON
    OMG... I am so much smarter this morning for having visited! I've looked back but cannot find the answer to my one question: are you using PVA or CA glue to nail this strake in place?
  11. AON
    Mike Pongee de Soie is not Silkspan. Silkspan is very much like the material used to make Tea bags... When I first saw it that was exactly what I thought of. Alan
  12. AON
    got the booklet from LVT in yesterday's mail and was studying it myself.
  13. AON
    Tom wonderful bowsprit rigging beautifully clear and focused photos thank you. Alan
  14. AON
    A blended colour. I work with acrylic paints in a tube and put a small dab of black and white on my palette then mix a tiny bit of white into it, adding more if necessary to get something not quite Grey but more dirty... a smokey black. So it is as if the sun's rays caught it at just the right angle to give it a little highlight and make it appear out of nowhere. I paint it onto the raised surfaces sparingly with a fan type brush. A hint of a different shade. I am not an artist... but it works.
  15. AON
    Use thick paper, print it on the paper, cut it out with a scalpel, paste it to the barrel. In real life I think they protrude about 3/4" minimum so what is that at your build scale? After painting the whole thing flat black highlight the raised parts with a smokey black.
  16. AON
    Yes but the person doing the captions did a bad job of it. Thank goodness I seem to speak a version of Australian 😉
  17. AON
    I stumbled onto this video this morning. At 52.27 minutes long I was sure I'd watch 5 minutes or fast forward a bunch but I found it captivating. I feel that understanding how a wooden bucket is made will help modellers create realistic looking buckets for their ship models.
  18. AON
    Ras I love the bulldog clip planking clamp! Alan
  19. AON
    All I can wonder is... how do you hide mistakes at that scale?
  20. AON
    When making my spritsail and spritsail topsail yards I was wondering somewhat the same thing. I discovered these sails were mainly used when running (wind from behind), and their existence depended on the era. My build straddled the time period of having a spritsail topsail and not having it. At first I couldn't see the use of my spritsail topsail as the spritsail would surely have stolen all the wind from it... but then when I did a mock up I realized the angle of the bowsprit allowed the spritsail topsail to be set just above the spritsail so it would catch a breeze. The martingale, dolphin striker, and bobstay was a concern for me... but when my build was first commissioned there was no dolphin striker. Then I could imagine the spritsail topsail being slipped in just above all this for a period, until they realized it just wasn't worth the effort. Progress seems to move slowly sometimes.
  21. AON
    sounds like a case for a need of a quantity of wood filler as I cannot imagine my cutting a straight enough line to result in a good fit
  22. AON
    First thing is the block seems to be installed upside down. Imagine there is a sheave in it and the rope runs from the bottom of the sheave (at the bottom of the block) where the hole is towards the top of the sheave and away towards the other block, or sheave, or whatever it may run to. This would mean your hook may be on the wrong end of the block. Having it wrap naturally may improve the way it lays and also the way it looks. Then to tame your line, you might brush it with a solution of water and white glue and then train it to lay more naturally as they always seem to have a mind of their own unless under some weight.
  23. AON
    I will have to go open my grandfather's tool chest and check his folding rule!
  24. AON
    Do you part your hair on the left, right, or centre... or comb it front to back? I believe it was the same with the rake of the mast... the master or cap'n adjusted it to how they preferred it to be.
  25. AON
    Okay. Was the last little bit about sun, beach, rum for me? I am happy for you. Really. No, really. Not jealous at all. On my way back downstairs and try to figure out how to deal with my leaky basement. But you enjoy your sun, beach, and rum.

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