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[Steef66]

I also have a problem with cherry wood, so i buy a cherry wood handle scale set for knifemaking. Each cube costs about $5, and it's enough for a lot of work in modeling. You can match diffrent variants of colour, shape like cube, flat strip etc. and its ready to cut and super cheap.
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I always look for second hand furniture of cherry wood. The most you find is from European Cherry and sometimes it's an old table for free.

 

[dockattner]

Those pump housings turned out great. Are you sure they won't work? If you want I can measure the ones I built on the Kingfisher for comparison...

 

[BradNSW]

Nice work. Looking more and more like a scratch build!

If you redo, I'm sure there will be some improvements, but they look pretty darn good as is.