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valgin2150
09-20-2004, 11:41 AM
Anyone out there can help me with some Copenhagen Ship curves for my naval architecture class? Thank you in advance.
Robert Gainer
09-20-2004, 12:20 PM
Try http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/yds_drafting_tools_order_form.htm They have a set and also sell some as a part insted of in the set.
valgin2150
09-20-2004, 12:23 PM
Try http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/yds_drafting_tools_order_form.htm They have a set and also sell some as a part insted of in the set.
Thank you for getting back to me. I was hoping to find something in Europe to avoid all the shipping fees. Thank you again.
Vladimir
yipster
09-20-2004, 02:09 PM
http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/Ships_Curves.jpg
curious as i am i looked at the macnaughtongroup, these? (http://www.macnaughtongroup.com/copenhagen_ships_curves.htm) or try a deeper search (http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=wrx&q=%22Copenhagen+Ship%22&kgs=0&kls=1)
beeing a old advertising designer i only had a few, guess i sort of missed my call :mad:
than again i did have free bending curves (http://www.misterart.com/store/view.cfm?store=001&group_id=355)
Eric Sponberg
09-20-2004, 05:10 PM
In the US, the Charrette Company sells ships curves. I don't have their address, but you might find them by google search on the internet. Doesn't someone in Copenhagen sell Copenhagen ships curves?
Eric
Robert Gainer
09-20-2004, 06:18 PM
Charrette does not offer very much in the way of variety in shapes and the quality is not very good. It’s just an opinion of course but if you can, I think you should get the full set of curves from MacNaughton. You also can get a set of K & E curves from E-Bay from time to time.
sorenfdk
09-20-2004, 08:47 PM
Doesn't someone in Copenhagen sell Copenhagen ships curves?
Sorry, but I haven't been able to find anyone who'll ship them abroad!
Eric Sponberg
09-20-2004, 10:17 PM
Mine are K&E curves, a selection & not a complete set, that I bought about 36 years ago in college. They are very good. What you can do is get someone in the US to buy them for you, and then have that person ship them to you.
Eric
valgin2150
09-21-2004, 08:09 AM
Mine are K&E curves, a selection & not a complete set, that I bought about 36 years ago in college. They are very good. What you can do is get someone in the US to buy them for you, and then have that person ship them to you.
Eric
Dear Eric,
Sounds good. What would you like for them? My brother lives in Sanford, so logistically it is doable.
Thank you again,
Vlaidmir Algin
Eric Sponberg
09-21-2004, 05:44 PM
I am keeping my ships curves because I still use them. They are a treasure. Perhaps searching the internet for K&E curves will prove fruitful. I have not done that yet. K&E stands for "Keuffel and Esser Company." I do not know if they are still in business. Some other curves that I have are from Linex in Denmark, but which I bought in the US. A search might also prove fruitful there.
Eric
Sean Herron
09-22-2004, 02:41 AM
Hello...
Linex still makes acetals - stupid money and import costs - Staedtler (mind my spelling) is a very good mass exported substistute...
See http://www.reuels.com/reuels/page428.html - or look at the Westlawn Yacht Design site for same - a full set of 50 odd curves is extremely hard to find - really hard to find with inking edges ...
I actually found a DXF file a while back and had mine water cut at work - great because you can cut to any scaling and have them cut from any material - good for tweaking those computer generated 'full size station mylars'...
If I can dig that up - I will post it...
Also http://shop.store.yahoo.com/raymond/coshcuset.html - for pricing - USD - on non ink edge set...
Try downloading copernic agent basic from http://www.copernic.com/ - and do a broader search - if you have not already....
SH.
Eric Sponberg
09-22-2004, 08:53 AM
Sean Herron,
There is no need for your insulting language. If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all. I rebuked you for your bad behavior some time ago on the Boatbuilding.com website, and I am doing the same now. I would advise you to keep your mouth shut if you can't behave in an appropriate, kind and professional manner.
Eric
sorenfdk
09-22-2004, 09:35 AM
Hello...
Danes are a bunch a drunken pork farmers...
I hope you just forgot to add a smilie ;)
BTW: It's spelled "Staedtler"...
Sean Herron
09-22-2004, 02:20 PM
Hello...
Mr. Sponberg there - is right - I concede - a lot of time has gone by since those days and I do get rough about the edges after a long day and a couple of drinks... :o
I am a first generation Canadian - made from Danes - and all my family are quite literally pork farmers in Ontario Canada and mainland Denmark - and most of them (probably myself - the greater) are drinkers... :eek:
But thats no excuse for my general misbehaviour is it... :?:
I am getting tired of having to apologize for my over indulgent Mr Hyde... :D
Perhaps I shall go into the woods with a drum and a harmonica... :)
Time to rethink my general level of consumption... :confused:
Carry on then... :cool:
Aside from all that - Sorenfdk - (Soren from Danish Kingdom :?: ) - I really like your drafting style on your site - particularily the motor sailors - nice to see hand work... :!:
SH.
sorenfdk
09-22-2004, 04:58 PM
Aside from all that - Sorenfdk - (Soren from Danish Kingdom :?: ) - I really like your drafting style on your site - particularily the motor sailors - nice to see hand work... :!:
Well - I'm not that easily offended, and I've been called worse things on this site ("*****", but that came from a swede...). I believe W.C. Fields was right when he said "Never trust a man who doesn't drink!"
Thanks for the nice words about our drawings! I'm more than a bit ashamed about our website, because it hasn't been updated in quite a while now. Of course, we don't do hand drawings any more - it's all AutoCAD, FastYacht and Rhino these days...
Sean Herron
09-22-2004, 09:18 PM
Soren...
Sorry everyone - this is not about ships curves - but I have done my bit there...
Soren - is Lars Udrup still designing multihulls and other in Helsingor (spelling) - I was offered a job by him when going to see Kronberg Castle (National Maritime Museum) with an ex,ex,ex girlfriend - but I was to young and stupid and scared at the time to take him up on it...
Time does go by when you are looking back on it...
Also you did not capitialize Swede... :)
SH.
sorenfdk
09-23-2004, 03:40 AM
Soren - is Lars Udrup still designing multihulls and other in Helsingor (spelling) - I was offered a job by him when going to see Kronberg Castle (National Maritime Museum) with an ex,ex,ex girlfriend - but I was to young and stupid and scared at the time to take him up on it...
Also you did not capitialize Swede... :)
I believe Lars Oudrup (spelling again :) ) is now living (and designing) in Middelfart (please put the "l" and the "e" in the right order!), close to Quorning, builders of the Dragonfly tris. He helped me many years ago, when I designed a micromultihull as my final exam work in Helsingør (your spelling error here is understandable - the "ø" is only used in the Danish language and therefore most likely not found on your keyboard!)
Enough Danish spelling - let's get back to the subject: Here in Denmark the price is somewhere in the region of 350$ for an almost complete set of Copenhagen ships curves!
Eric Sponberg
09-24-2004, 09:58 AM
Hey Folks,
I did a search through Charrette, and they have a complete set of Copenhagen ships curves, which you can see from the following link. The price is probably high, but you get a nice mahogany case to keep them in, too. Generally, you get what you pay for, and unfortunately, curves are not cheap. For 56 curves, at $384 and change, that's about $6.86 per curve, which on a unit price, is not bad. It's just that there are 56 of them in the set.
https://www.charrette.com/scripts/wgate/zshop/!?~language=en&v_direct_dept_code=MC08&~Okcode=ZDTD&~target=_top&~forcetarget=yes
Hope that helps.
Eric
8knots
09-24-2004, 11:07 AM
Your my hero...Thanks Eric for digging them up! I have been looking for quite some time. Well done by the way on your latest creation (Moloka'i) the 58 is a work of art! To put all that in 58' and still have a high eye candy factor is a tribute to your skill. I have yor PMM articals and saw your Showboats ad-I hope she makes you rich!
Thanks for keeping her American too.....8Knots
Lars Oudrup
10-15-2004, 09:08 AM
No- I'm living here in Fredericia, see www.loyd.dk
sorenfdk
10-15-2004, 10:14 AM
No- I'm living here in Fredericia, see www.loyd.dk
Ups - jeg troede sgu' det var i Middelfart!
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