Ramon Wilson

Ok Jo - I'll leave it to you. Now eighty my tolerance for such matters is diminishing rapidly  I'm afraid 🙄
Best - Tug

Jo - despite my friend Chris sending him three PMs and my previous post neither of us have had any contact from this 'Portugese Bob'. If you want to delete the replies I'm happy for you to do so as they have no relevance to the thread.

There may be good reason but to ask for help, have it offered then ignore it one can only wonder?

Tug

Thanks Jo, Chris said he thought it had been a separate thread with some copies of the previously posted images. Must admit I thought I had received an email saying I had had a PM from Bob but the last one listed was 2021! and I could not find it in my emails this morning. Just have - it was in my spam folder but there's no record of in in 'my messages above'. Doesn't matter though.

Bob - I have found the tooling and you are welcome to have it. I see you are in Ipswich so I'm 45 miles away - if you want to visit you can see the boat and how I went about forming the roves/rivets, just send me another PM for my address

Tug

Hello Bob, My friend Chris contacted me  to say you had recently posted a new thread on here regarding this model but that now seems to have disappeared - I don't know why that should be but am happy to help if possible.

If you have followed the thread you will know that the roves and rivets are dummies - in reverse to the original in fact. I made tooling to create the effect from annealed 1/16 copper round head rivets - a slow process but an effective one. The smallest available roves and rivets purchased at the time I first considered the project (1972) were overscale hence the decision to try a different method.

After a big restructure of my workshop at this point in time I am not sure if I still have the tooling but if I do you are more than welcome to have it. I will see if I can lay my hands on it for you.

I will certainly help you if I can

Best - Tug

I visit rarely these days but heard from Whiskey this morning of Stan's passing.

RIP Stan - we will all get there soon enough - Tug