Siggi52

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I'm busy with building the hinges for the port lids. For that I chiseled with an engraver a die out of a piece of steel and hardened it.

The hinges itself I build from copper wire, hammered slightly flat, bent one end back and soldered it with tin

Then I hammered it into the mould

filed the surface at the back flat

and at the disk sander I cut the sidelines flat

The drilling I made by eye, 0,65 mm Ø

And with that I rounded the back of the hinge

And that is it, also with a prototype of an hinge pin. The pin is made from 0,6 mm brass wire.

So, I think that I'm busy with them the next days. Today I build 10 hinges within 1,5 hours and I need 84 of them. 😟

Thank you Jorge for the compliment and also Noel for the explanation, you where just a few minutes faster then I. 

Thank you Matt, and also all others for there likes

I cast the cannons from tin with 2% Antimony.

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Today I finished the anchor lining. Now are only the port lids left.

Thank you Keith and also all who give me there likes.

It is done, also the port side is ready. The next thing would be the anchor lining. 

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today I finished the rigols at the starboard side and I destroyed only one! 

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that was also first my intention, but they are so small (1,3 X 1,5 mm)  that I did't risk it to destroy them when doing this. In this case, if you start carving from the outside, you are with the grain at the save side. And later come those, who go over the upper wales, and you must carve also from the underside. So I thought that it is saver this way. 

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today I could proudly present the first installed rigols 😓

First I draw them at the computer

Then followed a sawing marathon 

And here they are. I carved them at the ship. There they are fast and could't move, so it is also healthier for the fingers. To the right is the jig for the high.

Thank you Matt, and also all others for your likes

Today I finished the rail at the star board side and some small things at the gun ports and there lids. Just to mention the dimensions of the rail, she is 4,5 mm broad and 1,2 mm high.

The next things are the rigols 😧

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yesterday the carpenters profiled the planks for the sheer rail and produced a lot of shavings. Today we fit them in at the port side. After I got a little routine with the ends, it was an easy job. Tomorrow we will make the starboard side. 

Hello Keith,

29 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

The work crew must have had the day off?

no, the painter had a lot of work with the lids and the rest of the gang had to plan how it's going on with the rails and rigols. 

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today I finished the gun ports so far, that they fit and being painted. The rest comes, after I painted the outside of the ship.

Thank you Mark for the compliments.

For the pillars I used no special cutters. But I used needle files to rund the steps. 

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and many thanks for your likes and wishes.

After a short break between the years, I'm back at the shipyard. Now all port lids at least are build, but not all are lined. 

At the picture above you see the lids without lining, flush with the planking. At the picture below the lids have already the lining, and they are now not flush with the planking. All who where not ill with measles ore what else when it came to addition at school, know what is now to do. And that is not a shortcut ☹️

Above without lining and below with lining. 

At the picture above the lids are looking more like at most historic models. At the Centurion (below) is interesting, that they build the lids just plain, without the bulky wails or thick planking on top! 

🎄 The shipwright (thats me) and the crew wish you all a merry Christmas, a happy new year and stay sound in this complicated time. 🎄

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the bits and gallows for the main mast are ready. I changed also the sprouts of the elm tree pumps. 

And here some pictures from the gun deck

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Thank you Jason, the next update is not far away. The main and topsail jeer bits. For that I think I have to change something with the chain pumps fore handle. Sorry I do not know all these names. But that will take some time and thinking.

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If you think you are ready, then it comes. I forgot the elm-tree pump 😳

So I activated the carpenters, and they build the extra carlings and ledges for them. 

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the painter has all the beams, carlings and ledges painted and the carpenters have reinstalled them. I think, that is here the last action for the next years 😲 Before I set them permanent in, I have to finish the outside of the ship. 

From the forge came the rail for the stairs. 

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the carpenters have there work done. That is the region where you later will see through the deck down to the gun deck. The next days I think, has the painter a lot of work 🙁

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the carpenters say many thanks for your likes. I should tell you that 😉

Today we finished the carlings and the carpenters started to cut the slots for the ledges. That will take some time, even when we install only there ledges where you could see them later.

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I'll tell the carpenters. 

Today they where also very busy to lay out the next rows. I hope that we get the rest tomorrow ready.

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the mortices for the carlings are ready and the first already installed. 

Hello Mark,

one question, did you plan the standards for the gun deck or upper gun deck? The gun deck has also these short curved beams. They are directly under the beams 13a and 14a. At the Dorsetshire they had no scruple to set standards above them, so why you? 

Hello Mark,

your problem is a self made problem. If you had a look at the decks plan of the gun deck, you would see it. Here I show the decks plan to the sheer plan. In blue are the beams you have drawn, but you did't draw the short bowed beams, in red. Sorry my english. If you set the standard at that short beam, you did it! The same with he next beam. Why did you omit that standard in your drawing?