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I posted a separate thread in the Projects section of the forum called "Wooden boat repairs"

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Upon request I will post some pictures of some wooden boat work I have going on. The boat I am currently working on is a Göteborgseka even called GKSSeka built in Kaskö in 1965. The gunwales had rotted and the rot had spread into the endgrain of both transoms and also into two plank ends further...

No. I don't have the necsessary quailifications to call myself a boatbuilder so I only repair them. A jack of all trades must draw a line somewhere or he will end up out of his depth. One rebuilt wooden boat will soon be ready for the owner to sand and oil and varnish and another boat will be...

The steam boiler for my steam box was once the stainless fuel tank of a motor boat and a pillar that carried a huge gantry crane in a factory plus some more materials draged outof the piles at local scrap yards The piping for my dust collector was once the ventilation system in a municipal...

Badly damaged 3 metre scaffolding poles being recykled as 1 metre scaffolding poles. The short ones are very handy when you put up scaffoldings under a roof overhang or when you don't want long poles sticking up and interfering with work. Some junk pieces of iron dragged out of the heaps at the...

My grinder for spindle moulder tooling is mostly made from recykled materials found at scrap yards. The motor is most likely from a 1950-ies water pump. Only the tool holder is factory made. Bearing blocks and pulleys were bought new. I have no current picture in the computer only one from when...

It was rekoned in Finland in the late 19th century that the volume of timber needed to build a wooden merchant ship including masts and spars for the rig and stocks and sleds for launching though not including workplace props and scaffoldings equalled the volume of a box with the lenght and...

Those fully jacketed military bullets are a common find in trees pretty much all over Finland. They usually keep their shape when hitting a tree. Modern day hunting bullets mushroom when hiting a tree. Hovever quite a bit of hunting has been done over the years with surplus or smuggled military...

I use 200 litre metal drums with removable lids under my Pentz type cyclone. The drums have contained pear juice concentrate and I got 10 of them cheap from a local food processing plant. Having 10 barrels mean that I can haul away a trailer load at a time. Anything smaller than theese barrels...

It all depended on the quality specified for the ship and the longevity desired. The best and most long lasting ships were built using timber that was at least somewhat seasoned. Cheap mass produced iron fastened merchantmen as well as warships built in a hurry to fill gaps in wartime were...

I have found that handsaw blades are too thick for backsaws. peronally I would not hesitate to shift the worn out blade on a saw I have come to like. If my favourite handsaw reaches that point in life there will be no original material left in it.

Most of my hand tools are either old and restored/repaired/rebuilt or entirely home made from scratch. Most of my machines too. It is a matter of time versus money. If you have time buy secondhand and rebuild. If you have money buy new. If both time and money are in short supply byúy a few new...

They say on the news that it is a wee bit windy in England and south Wales today. Up to 50 metres per second they say. Any news? Sounds like the perfect opportunity to have the dust cleaned out of the workshop. Tie down the Wadkins so they don't dance about in the draught and open a window to...

How important the melody of a language is varies a lot between languages. In Danish the melody and intonation is very important. In English a bit less so. In Swedish and Norwegian even less so. In Finnish even less. Those who speak Vietnameese or Mandarin say melody intonation in those...

That "upspeak" is typical for Norwegians and Swedes from the southern half of Sweden. Whatever language they speak you always recognize the melody.

Wasp cocoons

Good point. I painted with a too broad brush.

A growing population worldwide is a part of the problem but if we look at population statistics the population is slowly scrinking in pretty much every country that has democracy and rights and education for women as well as tax financed care for the old. Women who have education and the freedom...

Both modern capitalism and classic Soviet style communism are utterly unable to do something about the current system flaws. There is no point in bashing one more than the other. Neither a chainsaw nor a pneumatic rock drill does a good job of flattening a cast iron machine table. There is no...