A Spy In My Workshop?
Can you see me?
This characterisation of myself in my workshop that chugalone100 has produced is worryingly accurate.
It depicts my fondness of the LesRo Rapier and my embarrassingly large ensemble of them and all things LesRo and Rapier related that I have “hidden away” in my workshop.
Cats also feature in the picture (another interest) and even my Snap-On tool cabinet is depicted.
Some cartoon like exaggeration is also shown as the workshop is unusually clean and tidy and the hobo cat that we are currently feeding and looking after is white with some black patches, and the Record BS250 bandsaw is missing, but the rest is surprisingly accurate !
An awful lot of information has been absorbed there and it shows that my various blogs, building notes, pictures and restoration work (especially on the Rapiers) has been read and appreciated by a future Rapier devotee, one that I am very pleased to help.
We must get Julian some plans and drawings so he can build a Rapier of his own so he can enjoy driving his as much as I enjoy driving mine.
Bob.
This characterisation of myself in my workshop that chugalone100 has produced is worryingly accurate.
It depicts my fondness of the LesRo Rapier and my embarrassingly large ensemble of them and all things LesRo and Rapier related that I have “hidden away” in my workshop.
Cats also feature in the picture (another interest) and even my Snap-On tool cabinet is depicted.
Some cartoon like exaggeration is also shown as the workshop is unusually clean and tidy and the hobo cat that we are currently feeding and looking after is white with some black patches, and the Record BS250 bandsaw is missing, but the rest is surprisingly accurate !
An awful lot of information has been absorbed there and it shows that my various blogs, building notes, pictures and restoration work (especially on the Rapiers) has been read and appreciated by a future Rapier devotee, one that I am very pleased to help.
We must get Julian some plans and drawings so he can build a Rapier of his own so he can enjoy driving his as much as I enjoy driving mine.
Bob.
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At this time, no PDF has been found or made available for the Rapier plans, so this may be the best route to go (?) to help those that would like to build a Rapier for themselves, or maybe to have some reference when restoring a used example.
I will also make a drawing of the wrap-around window mask for those that prefer this idea to the original kit windscreen that can be seen on the kit plans.
Some pictures of the removable cabin roof for the Wheel House will also be added for anyone that would prefer to build this rather that use the single piece of ply skin as a roof that the original kit build uses.
These are the only (optional) differences that make it a Rapier X - apart from the fact that it is not built from an original kit.
Bob.