Copy-editing of scanned text is as much of a pain as copy-editing of anything else, which is to say, yes, rather a pain. I want this book for myself, and I'd like to make it available for others since it's rather a lot of work to go to for one person to read a book.
It's a very interesting book, though--the writer was writing with the assumption that the amateur boatbuilder might not be an experienced woodworker, so he explains tricks for dealing with wood that I haven't seen anywhere else.
Like sometimes when you saw a strip off a board it relieves some internal stress between parts and the shape of the board changes--becomes more or less bowed, for example. On a lapstrake boat this can cause a problem, so you draw a straight line down the middle of the board before you saw the first strip. If it stops being straight, you saw a strip off the other side (leaving room for your final shape) and then you can assume most of the stresses are relieved and measure and cut your final shape (lapstrakes are wider in the middle than at the ends, generally.) That was news to me; I don't know if it will matter for what I do, but it was interesting to know.
So there is information in there that I can see modern builders wanting. Maybe most modern builders have big paper libraries and have the book already (though the only copy I can find on Amazon is a reproduction of the 1889 version which was released in February of this year) but amateur builders like me could use it.
I dunno--I hadn't checked for it at Amazon until now. It's 18$ which probably wouldn't be enough to deter most people, and it would be nice to have it in paper so I could loan it to my boatbuilding friends when I was done reading...
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Date: 2010-11-27 02:00 pm (UTC)It's a very interesting book, though--the writer was writing with the assumption that the amateur boatbuilder might not be an experienced woodworker, so he explains tricks for dealing with wood that I haven't seen anywhere else.
Like sometimes when you saw a strip off a board it relieves some internal stress between parts and the shape of the board changes--becomes more or less bowed, for example. On a lapstrake boat this can cause a problem, so you draw a straight line down the middle of the board before you saw the first strip. If it stops being straight, you saw a strip off the other side (leaving room for your final shape) and then you can assume most of the stresses are relieved and measure and cut your final shape (lapstrakes are wider in the middle than at the ends, generally.) That was news to me; I don't know if it will matter for what I do, but it was interesting to know.
So there is information in there that I can see modern builders wanting. Maybe most modern builders have big paper libraries and have the book already (though the only copy I can find on Amazon is a reproduction of the 1889 version which was released in February of this year) but amateur builders like me could use it.
I dunno--I hadn't checked for it at Amazon until now. It's 18$ which probably wouldn't be enough to deter most people, and it would be nice to have it in paper so I could loan it to my boatbuilding friends when I was done reading...