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[amber dog democrat]

I don't think this is talant as much as a form of compulsion....

its just that I always felt scale model water craft were aesthically beautiful...and the only way I could ever afford to have one is to learn to build them myself.

If you REALLY wanted to do this, you could - and probably do better work than me.

But it is one of the ways I channel creative energy.

I also play mandolin.... poorly.

There is the ending stanza
of a John Maysfield poem regarding commercial sailing ship, ( the 3 and 4 masted barques )

" For you could walk the pier a hunderd times
and hear St Michaels ringing out the chimes
and never see these proud ones swaying home
with mainyards backed and bows a cream of foam...


"They mark our progress as a race of men,
the earth will not see such ships as these again."

If I had 10 lifetimes, I would perfect the art of scale model shipwrightry
- for its own sake.
but one needs to make a living too. and now off to the workshop !!