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By:-- .. -.- .- . .-..
Date: 11/13/1998, 8:31 am
In Response To: Have I missed something (lofting) (Mikael Östlund)

> Have I missed something here? when lofting the guillemot from my copy of
> Nick Schades book I can't really get the end forms to fit the forms
> closest to them i.e. 2 and 15. For example the second forms deck peak is
> 6.44 and keel -0.41 and the bow forms 0" position top 6.45 and bottom
> -0.68 I can just see that the 2nd form is missing 0.27" at the bottom
> or have I neglected something? What to do?

> Does anyone have some good tricks when it comes to aligning the end forms
> to the strongback? I find this part of the building process a bit
> intimidating.

Messages In This Thread

Have I missed something (lofting)
Mikael Östlund -- 11/9/1998, 4:20 pm
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-- .. -.- .- . .-.. -- 11/13/1998, 8:31 am
Re: Have I missed something (lofting)
Nick Schade -- 11/9/1998, 7:37 pm
Re: Have I missed something (lofting)
Ross Leidy -- 11/9/1998, 10:20 pm
Re: Have I missed something (lofting)
Dennis R. Weilert -- 11/13/1998, 12:53 am
Re: Have I missed something (lofting)
Nick Schade -- 11/13/1998, 9:59 am
Re: bad numbers in the tables
Don Beale -- 11/9/1998, 7:12 pm
Re: Have I missed something (lofting)
Ross Leidy -- 11/9/1998, 5:04 pm
Re: Have I missed something (lofting)
Kenneth Paul -- 11/9/1998, 4:37 pm
Re: Have I missed something (lofting)
Mikael Östlund -- 11/9/1998, 4:53 pm