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The (in)glorious end of 3d

As you might have noticed, for a long while our sidebar was adorned with the words ‘3D modelling in progress’. What this meant was that I was trying to make the model conform to reality instead of the plans. This … Continue reading

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A dash of CAD

Our stem redesign is proving to be not as effortless as initially believed. Since we can’t go to the workshop on the weekend I spent some time building a CAD model in Solidworks of what we’re trying to do. Kind … Continue reading

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Stringers and stress-testing

Another productive day at the workshop. We started dry-fitting the stringers to see how the forward stem is going to look like. Bending the 2×4 cm pine stringers was made much easier by pre-bending them, but the ideal stringer should … Continue reading

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