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Ok well I read up a bit on tapering and then did my best. Winged it a bit but it seems to have turned out ok for my first time. The last two planks aren't as tapered as the rest of them unfortunately, but overall I think it doesn't look too bad. I'm a little concerned about light coming through small cracks between some of the planks, however I figure I can fill the outside of the cracks with glue and that'll take care of it. Also they were a little uneven before, but are evening out with the supports I'm adding now. And will even out even more with the additional supports to come.
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Ok well I figured I'd just start and wing it. I filed all the bulkheads down to where I thought they should be roughly. I'm applying the planks now and fine tuning the filing as I go. The little red and black file is great for this. It's a Japanese finger file I got at a store called Lee Valley Tools. They have all sorts of cool tools there you wouldn't find elsewhere. Anyway so far it hasn't been pretty but it's going ok. The only problem I see so far is that the bottom plank is not close to touching the last bulkhead at the bow. If I were to nail it to the bulkhead it would completely warp the shape of the hull. I figure it's not a huge deal though as long as the shape is smooth? I also have never tapered planks so I will have to figure that out. On my last model I didn't taper them, rather just changed their orientation at the bottom. I found a youtube video explaining how to calculate the amount of taper at each bulkhead, so I will post my progress on that soon. Edit: Also for the life of me I could not figure out what level to start the lower plank at. I looked at a couple other builds I found here and on other forums and both had nine planks at the max width, so that's what I did. I hope that's right. If anyone can help me on that please do.
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Ok here are a few more... I tried to get a bunch of good angles.
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Just starting a new build after a few years off. It's only my second build. I just started building the hull and I'm already stuck and need help lol. My work so far is attached. And I've also attached a picture of the instructions. If I'm correct, pieces 14 and 15 should NOT be glued on to the frame? The frame will be removed later after the planking, but I believe these pieces should be staying on the boat. I don't read Italian and the English version isn't totally clear to me. Secondly if someone could help me with tapering the frame that would be great. I don't remember how I did it on my last build. Do you generally taper each piece of the frame (in the picture pieces 2 - 9) at the same angle, then nail the planks down? Or does it require more precision and you file each piece at different angles, testing the fit of each plank as you go? Hopefully this question makes sense 😅.
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Hey my friend... yes I did finish it finally. I completely forgot that I never finished this build log. I just came on this site to ask some questions about my new model build and saw your question now 😅. I will post some detailed pictures of it in a few days. For now here's just a couple as I just put it up in my new apartment behind my couch. I'm very happy with how it came out considering it's my first one. I spent many many hours on it figuring it all out.
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Hair Spray for Sails and Loose Sail Rigging
mkmossop replied to mkmossop's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
So the hairspray worked pretty well... here are a couple pics. I'm really annoyed I didn't ask about this before... inserting a wire would have solved all this and I would be able to rig the lines tight. I'm considering trying to unfold the bottoms of the sails and add in a wire, but I'll lose it if I mess something up and have to redo them, so I probably won't. Hopefully I can figure something up to get the lines tighter.
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Hair Spray for Sails and Loose Sail Rigging
mkmossop replied to mkmossop's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Ah damn... should have thought of the wire... too late for that now. I think the hairspray will work to maintain the sail shape, however I don't know how I'll get the rigging taught. Which one is the sheet line? On the main sail I have the clew line, then one line going back and one going forward. They are semi balanced, but couldn't get them all taught at the same time. I would need the sail to be more rigid. -
I didn't find much in a search here, but I'm pretty sure I read somewhere a while ago that hair spray works well to puff out sails? I was thinking of trying some on mine later tonight. I have an issue though which I'm not sure the hair spray will fix. The rigging on my sails is loose because of the lack of rigidity in the sails. I'm hoping the stiffening them with the hairspray will help, but I'm not sure. I think the edges of the sails need to be rigid to pull the rigging tight. I guess glue would work, but would probably show. How do people usually fix this? Just leave the rigging loose? I could pull it tight but then the sails would be pulled way way back and would look silly. I worked hard to keep the rest of the rigging (on masts etc) tight since I think it looks much better. Here are a couple pics of the loose sail rigs.
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Ok cool thanks for your input.
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Hi Allen, do you have any close up pictures of sewing you've done for your bolt rope?
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Square knot... cool thanks I'll do one of those.
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Hmm ok I'll look into those threads. I tried sewing some last night with some regular sized sewing thread and didn't think it looked too great, but maybe it would look better with thinner thread. So from your post I take it most people here sew on the bolt rope? From what I can tell it's actually glued on pretty well, but extra reinforcement would be bad. I just used regular wood glue.
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Also what type of knot should I use for the robands? I can't find any good info on that.
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Here's another example. I took this from shipcarpenter's build log on this forum of the same ship. I see he's pulled the sail tight to the yard the whole way. Is this how it should look? Thanks!
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Oh ok... thanks for the informative post. I suppose I could try sewing through the bolt rope, but that would probably be pretty tricky. I've already glued the bolt ropes on... here's one of my sails.
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