Look for a simple balsa build

Hi there, have you thought about a Glyn Guest build as he does a lot of free plans in Model Boats magazine and if you cant get them from model boats mag - Sarik hobbies sell the plans - and have a good list to choose from. If you have a look at my harbour - you will see an MTB made from balsa wood which I made from his plan.plus warships aswell

4 hours ago by 🇬🇧 JOHN ( Petty Officer 1st Class)

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Seaplane tender

It looks like the Adamcraft kit - minus the roof. Here is slightly closer picture of that kit...

15 hours ago by 🇬🇧 DodgyGeezer ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)

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CNC boat kits...?

Ah well, grandmothers and eggs... 😌 Still, I did say that the collet was cheaper than 1 grubscrew - not 100... I found that mine worked first time, so you probably won't need the platform. You seem better equipped than I am for the rest of it 😉 I can, however, report that holding balsa sheet in this way is very effective. It is a sheet of ply bolted to the base, with another sheet of ply 4" wide on top. The sides have hard balsa edges rising about 1/4 inch above the ply, which are held in with a spruce strip. A 4" sheet of yellow correx is there to provide a soft base for under cutting. If I cut outside the workpiece the cutter just goes through the balsa sides, so no damage done. 4" or 100mm sheets of balsa drop into the 1/8th recess on top, and are held by the side balsa, which is slightly sprung inwards. If necessary they can be packed around the edges, but the recess is sized to hold them tightly. They are firmly held against the cutter, do not move at all, and the workpiece can be removed and replaced precisely in the same position if necessary. If you want you can put a weight on top of the sheet during cutting to hold it perfectly flat, and move it when the cutter is going to go over it.

20 hours ago by 🇬🇧 DodgyGeezer ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)

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Noodle Jet Boat

"....There were plans for a noodle boat in a fairly recent model boats mag..." Several years ago I drafted up an EeZeBilt RIB. This used foam pipe insulation (ready-split!) for the inflatable section, had a standard brushless prop and used a servo hidden in a dummy outboard to swing the outboard for use as a rudder. I never completed the boat, and did not publish the plans, but if there is some interest I will look at revisiting the idea. Here are a few pics of what the boat was to look like:

1 day ago by 🇬🇧 DodgyGeezer ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)

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Plan Sources

You must have done a lot of research to find that matching boat? Dedication!!

2 days ago by 🇬🇧 DodgyGeezer ( Chief Petty Officer 1st Class)

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