Great job on the dales. I particularly like the reinforcing bands!
Yellow heart is brittle, but it can be bent. Use thin planks and take care.
Yellow heart is brittle, but it can be bent. Use thin planks and take care.
The other Eric's HMS Blandford Cross Section - 1:48 - Scratch build
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Upper deck beams have been fitted. I think i have a good method for this now, including a method for angled notching where the beams meet the deck clamps. Learning some thing new every day.
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The blade with my Proxon FET saw when delivered was a rip saw blade. You can get. and I had ordered, a finer toothed cross cut blade which works better but I would like one finer than that but only a diamond type of "grinding through" blade is offered and I don't want to burn my way through wood. Hardness of the wood is also a problem when trying to do sharply cut pieces I have discovered. Rich (PT-2)
What do you mean by finer Rich? More and smaller teeth? If so have a look at NO 28 730 for instance. That blade has 250 very small teeth.
In case you by finer means a thinner blade then have a look at NO 28 020 or NO 28 011, both are only 0.5mm wide and have pretty small teeth as well. However these 2 are only 50 mm in diameter but unless you are cutting planks for a full size ship I guess it should be enough
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First "draft" of the elm tree pump...
How many gallons will that long baby deliver? Rich (PT-2)
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Goodwin says each of these elm tree pumps could move about 25 gallons/minute. (Construction and Fitting of the English Man-of-War, p. 142).
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Nice work on the elm tree pump. How did you do the reinforcing bands?
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Dave ( @DocBlake ) is all about the reinforcing bands lately.
I used a razor blade to cut very thin strips of dark, heavyweight, paper. (Paper was a very dark grey color). I blocked this with a ruler to get as thin, but even a strip as I could. Very light PVA glue on the back side and wrapped the strip around the pump. Sometimes it takes a couple of attempts to get the wraparound to match up perfectly, especially if the cut isn't perfectly even, but it's not hard at all, and I really like the look.
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Paper or whatever it needs to get the job done and your path was very well carried out. Excellent. Rich (PT-2)Dave is all about the reinforcing bands lately.
I used a razor blade to cut very thin strips of dark, heavyweight, paper. (Paper was a very dark grey color). I blocked this with a ruler to get as thin, but and even strip as I could. Very light PVA glue on the back side and wrapped the strip around the pump. Sometimes it takes a couple of attempts to get the wraparound to match up perfectly, especially if the cut isn't perfectly even, but it's not hard at all, and I really like the look.