Author Archives: joosep

The (in)glorious end of 3d

Posted on March 12, 2012 by joosep

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

Posted on December 3, 2011 by joosep

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

Posted on November 25, 2011 by joosep

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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