{"id":158,"date":"2008-03-09T08:25:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:24","slug":"116-fiddlehead-false-stems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/116-fiddlehead-false-stems\/","title":{"rendered":"1:16 Fiddlehead &#8211; False Stems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fm-stems.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-52\" title=\"false stems\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fm-stems-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"false stems\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>False stems provide protection against all the things we&#8217;ll bump into. They&#8217;re replaceable, like bumpers on a car, but a lot cheaper. They are fussy to fit, but no more so than any other curved part. Did I mention that there are no straight parts or 90 degree angles on most boats. Everything is a curve and everything has at least one beveled edge.<\/p>\n<p>For a &#8220;wow factor,&#8221; I gave about ummm 7 seconds thought to the idea of carving a fiddlehead in one of the false stems.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, here&#8217;s another nice view of the gains.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to see\u00a0 larger version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>False stems provide protection against all the things we&#8217;ll bump into. They&#8217;re replaceable, like bumpers on a car, but a lot cheaper. They are fussy to fit, but no more so than any other curved part. Did I mention that there are no straight parts or 90 degree angles on most boats. Everything is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fiddlehead-model","7":"category-model-building","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8295,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}