Workshop exotica, non Laverda
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martymoose
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GregT
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Is she a Herreshoff design ? Looks very like an H28 variant.
Is a Wally Ward design Greg, good Aussie designer and the pre-runner to the better known Carmen class.
All in house Vince, cept for the rig of coarse and some of the castings.
I did not have much to do with this one, just did the sponsons, tiller and all the electricals, luckily there were no PO's involved hey
that paint is off the brush by the way, no fancy spray guns in our shed.
Cosi
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The best camel
Hair brushes are harvested from the toe….
I’ll get back in my box
Hair brushes are harvested from the toe….
I’ll get back in my box
still laughing from Cosi,Badger hair Vince, not sure about Camel brushes.
No Badgers were harmed in this restoration as far as I know.
We used Camel Hair brushes on polished finishes to blend out any issues, they left zero brush strokes but cost a bomb, we got the tip from the French Polisher that came about on occasions for first-class finishes.
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chrisk
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Alzero
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I’ve built sports cars, bikes, bicycles and boats and I’ve learned that I don’t really like sawdust.Nice, Tom. Nah, beautifull!
Having had a carpenter dad and dabbling more than I wanted in woodwork, I can appreciate the painstaking detail that goes into boat building.
But wood didn't speak to me the way engines and wheels did...
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GregT
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Someone published a study i saw some years back to the effect that men who worked with wood were happier and had less family stress than those who worked with metal.
I've done both, As a family we built and sailed two keelboats and numerous dinghys. Then of course motorcycles and motor racing generally plus general engineering work. No real preference I'd have to say.
Dellortoman
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My boat is not as pretty, but I did most of the build myself. It has a steel hull and deck. The only wood butchery is in the internal fit-out.
A friend of mine suggested that I enter it in the Tasmanian Wooden Boat Festival because it's made out of Newcastle pine.
For those not in the know. Thew city of Newcastle in Australia (a bit north of Sydney) is famous for its steel mills. I guess most Australian steel comes from Newcastle. It's colloquially known as Newcastle pine when referring to it as a building material.
A friend of mine suggested that I enter it in the Tasmanian Wooden Boat Festival because it's made out of Newcastle pine.
For those not in the know. Thew city of Newcastle in Australia (a bit north of Sydney) is famous for its steel mills. I guess most Australian steel comes from Newcastle. It's colloquially known as Newcastle pine when referring to it as a building material.
breganzane
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The steelmills closed in Newc back in 1999 as far as I know. Port Kembla and Whyalla still going though.
In the Canberra region the ubiquitous pinus radiata is similarly known as 'Uriarra hardwood' after the forrest that grows a lot of it for the construction industry etc. It was a withering put-down used by our former in-house work carpenter who was a superb cabinet maker when given the opportunity. "Finest Uriarra Hardwood" he'd disparagingly describe some utilitarian thing we'd asked him to construct for us.
Like the steelmills and everything else, that carpentry shop is long gone too.
The Sock
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I thought it was years since you'd worked with wood, Clem.
motoddrob
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Nice boat, Is that sheoak on the table top and plate cabinet? I love wood, my house is full of it. Unlike Clem I am pretty good at it!!!