Gravy Boat, Custom Albin 25

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  1. Yobarnacle
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    The cold sap you refer too is OLD sap from an OLD cut in the trees bark.

    Make a fresh cut, and collect liquid sap. Apply promptly to cut.
    Thickens pretty quick.

    Homeopathic is NOT herbal medicine, which I know a little about.
    About Homeopathic, I know nearly nothing.

    http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/homeopathy-topic-overview
    "Topic Overview
    What is homeopathy?

    Homeopathy, or homeopathic medicine, is a medical philosophy and practice based on the idea that the body has the ability to heal itself. Homeopathy was founded in the late 1700s in Germany and has been widely practiced throughout Europe. Homeopathic medicine views symptoms of illness as normal responses of the body as it attempts to regain health.

    Homeopathy is based on the idea that "like cures like." That is, if a substance causes a symptom in a healthy person, giving the person a very small amount of the same substance may cure the illness. In theory, a homeopathic dose enhances the body's normal healing and self-regulatory processes.

    A homeopathic health practitioner (homeopath) uses pills or liquid mixtures (solutions) containing only a little of an active ingredient (usually a plant or mineral) for treatment of disease. These are known as highly diluted or "potentiated" substances. There is some evidence to show that homeopathic medicines may have helpful effects. "
     
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    Thanks for clearing both items up. What happens to the sap as/when the wound heals? Does it just fall off with the scab?

    In the case of homeopathic medicine, I was trying to be general, but I should probably have picked an even more general term. Everything I said in my last post applies to herbal medicine as well. However, there is something to be said for firsthand experience with this stuff, especially when in the field, first aid situations, traditional knowledge passed down from granny, etc. On the other hand, fraud in the herbal medicine and vitamin industries is rampant, and so extra prudence and scrutiny makes sense.
     
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    http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/natural-medicine/herbal-remedies/herbal-remedies.htm

    "While some people may dismiss herbal remedies as quackery, the use of botanicals is well rooted in medical practice. Ancient doctors methodically collected information about herbs and developed well-defined pharmacopoeias to treat a variety of ailments. More than a quarter of all drugs used today contain active ingredients derived from those same ancient plants."

    V i a g r a from St. John's Wort, a common weed is a good example.
    Don't need or use it myself.
     

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    We're vigorously agreeing. That, minus the "quarter," is what I said back a ways. Keep that stuff coming. I like to learn from, and evaluate, each of those as I encounter them from whatever source.
     
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    best research for yourself, specific remedies. And beware of powerful toxic plants.

    I restrict my use of herbal medicines to those herbs ALSO commonly used in everyday foods.
    Spices, mints, vitamin rich like rose hips, the safe stuff.

    They say a man who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer and an idiot for a client. Or vice versa?

    Probably holds true for self doctoring as well.
    Treating seasickness or temporarily easing a tooth ache when beyond reach of a dentist, or bandaging a cut in the brush, first aid I consider safe and necessary.
     
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    You just couldn't help yourself, could you?!? ;-) Both you and Trump: "I guarantee you there's no problem, I guarantee!"*


    (*Yikes, that will really get the forum post nazis all worked up!)
     
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    "Does it just fall off with the scab?"
    It IS the scab.
    Yes, flake off or pulls loose as the skin beneath naturally defoliates (sloughs off).
    Most house hold dust is human skin.
     
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    Re-thought the table arrangement. Decided NOT to incorporate sink with table. Have a different location in mind for sink.

    Made a roughed out cantilevered leg for table tab glassed on to tunnel berth end. Needs a lot more glassing and finishing.
    Doesn't show very well, but it changes angle 15 defrees from the half bulkhead at head of berth.
    Edges will be dressed with split tubing, and glassed and smoothed.

    Decided against making the table swivel.
    The top leaves center hinge will be installed at an angle to the tray.
    The leaf nearest wife's EZ chair, when opened back, will allow the space seen in this photo for entering chair.
    When leaf is down flat, it squares the table edge to the chair, closing the gap.

    So, the leaf is kinda like a gate to get in and out of the chair.

    Simpler and sturdier than a swiveling system.


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    Brought this picture forward from several pages ago, to see how salon shaping up in total.
     

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    Yes, raw grated root. Undrinkable unless sweetened !
     
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    so, did you experience the disappearing middle sensation?
     
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    Not so much. Maybe there are variations in the strength of different gingers, I have noticed some of the processed ginger chunks are much hotter than others.
     
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    The instructions I received when I first was interested in trying it was; sip tea until you burp. That's the signal you took in enough. About 10 minutes after I burped, I felt like I had no awareness of having a middle, as if it vanished leaving empty space. My ribs and lungs still had sensation, and seemed they were floating on air.
    My skin around my waist had sensation, but felt hollow inside.
     
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    Time warp

    Yobarnacle,

    Though I've been reading this thread for a month or so, I realized that I don't clearly know something fundamental about your project.

    This thread seems like it is two simultaneous, but contradictory things. One, a running log of current projects in real time, and two, a description of the entire finished project after the fact, released a little at a time.

    Just trying to get reoriented. Can you shed some light please?

    Justaguy
     
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    You think YOUR confused? Imagine MY state of mind!

    "Gravy" is not yet complete.
    I'm working on her every day.
    I've been building her for 4 years, but a few months of each year, until 2015.
    All of 2015 was boat building.
    2014 nothing was done on GRAVY.. My wife was battling cancer. Now cured.
    I wasted time building some sub-projects, I later tore out and re-designed.

    A lot of sub-projects like the nose and transom are finished.
    Parts of the salon have long been finished.
    I'm doing the big push to finish ALL the sub-projects remaining so "Gravy" is a completed project.

    I hope that explains the past tense posts and the present tense and future tense posts.

    Photos of completed sub-projects are mixed in a huge mess of photos.
    I won't post projects I completed only to take apart and discard.

    Currently I'm working in the stern cabin and salon, salon close to finishing, and building a fiberglass transom for a 10 foot Zodiac RIB whose plywood transom rotted.
    And Friday it rained all day.
     

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