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Ship Models: How to Build Them (Dover Woodworking)

by Charles G. Davis

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Complete, step-by-step instructions for building schooners, galleons, clipper ships, more. Includes scale plans for 1846 clipper ship Sea Witch. Excellent guide for both the novice and the practiced woodworker - from the first steps in selecting proper materials to final task of painting the model. Over 150 photographs.

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Charles G. Davis

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Original publication date: 1925

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Genres: Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 623.8201 — Applied science & technology Engineering Military Vehicles: Land, Air, & Sea Naval architecture; Shipbuilding History of Naval Architecture
LCC: VM298 .D3 — Naval Science Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering Shipbuilding industry. Shipyards
BISAC: CRA CRAFTS & HOBBIES Woodwork
TRA TRANSPORTATION Ships & Shipbuilding History

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Published: 1925
Genres: Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 623.8201
LCC: VM298 .D3

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