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FrankWouts

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About FrankWouts

  • Birthday 10/08/1968

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    Breda, The Netherlands
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    Trumpet playing, modeling aircraft and ships, Heller and wood.

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  1.    FrankWouts reacted to a post in a topic: HMS Winchelsea 1764 by woodartist - 1:48
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  17. FrankWouts
    Looking awesome and great progress! Do you really work with only one hand? Even more respect for your progress and beautiful build! Frank.
  18.    FrankWouts reacted to a post in a topic: HMS Winchelsea 1764 by woodartist - 1:48
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    Nice Edward! Frank.
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  23. FrankWouts
    Hi all, Planking on, only twelve rows deck planking to go…still 5 days holiday left, so little more than two rows a day would finish the deck these holidays. I see now my little plank with bricks, the stove platform has curled a little, probably due to the moist black paint I put on. I have to see if my stove will be straight up later on…Otherwise I’ll replace it with fun to make dark redbrown clay bricks and a new black frame. Frank.
  24. FrankWouts
    Looking good and very good progress Steve, harsh and long work sanding inboard…but very important for later to get it right like you did. Very well done! Frank.
  25. FrankWouts
    Welcome to the group Allen, I'll be following your build. Have fun and lots of succes on your first scratch build of HMS Winchelsea! Frank.
  26. FrankWouts
    I'm afraid I did indeed bend it Chuck, ooops...it would be a lot easier to have used the sheet and cutting it, that's right! Cost me a lot of sweat above the traveling iron and multiple watersoaked planks thrown in the dustbin. Frank.
  27. FrankWouts
    The sassafras you used for the stem looks awesome to my eye. Have you tried milling some planks of it? How do they bend, cut and sand? If that's all okay I would go for the fine grained sassafras, not the more heavily grained and dark walnut ! It would combine beautiful and fine with the boxwood parts from Chuck and the ornaments for sure! Frank.
  28. FrankWouts
    Simply wonderful work and very nice progress Adward! Frank.
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  30. FrankWouts
    Thanks Ciscoh and Dusan!
  31. FrankWouts
    Can’t help you with the different woods you mention, but for the looks, my taste would dictate me to use the same wood as the one you made the keel and bow wood of. For the gaps you describe along the curve of the rabbit at the bow, I would just fill them with some extra strip of the same with and sand/check/sand/check, etcetera…until it fits in the curve of the already constructed bow wood. The rabbit may not be of a constant width at the bow, but when you’ll be finally planking the hull, when you leave a very, very light tension on the planks so that they push very light against the curve of your already constructed bow wood, my guess is that you will be allright. Frank.
  32. FrankWouts
    Great progress and looking very good! Frank.
  33. FrankWouts
    Thanks Chuck, Glenn and the likes! Frank.
  34. FrankWouts
    After the jigsaw first comes the pencil drawing. Cost me a whole Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning to get it right. But ready to start planking the last four belts of the deck now. Frank.
  35. FrankWouts
    Hi Steve, there should be several 3/16" lasercut fairing caps in the package you received from Chuck! If not send him a message. Look at Chuck's build on page 7, post #207, it's described there were to place the 3/16"wide fairing caps to help with the inboard fairing. Frank.
  36. FrankWouts
    Yes, I think your build will be like that, for sure with such a clean lasercut you won't have to adjust and clean up so much. That laser and its settings seem to cut at an exact 90 degrees angle judging from your photographs. Or did you have to correct some joins that weren't exactly in a straight 90 degree angle? Cannot wait to see more of it! Frank.

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