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BREAKING NEWS

Ed has mentioned the BOOK word!!

Fantastic development.

Has made my day/week/year.

Going off to reread Naiad now.

Great stuff.

Alan

Mark

The clamps match the Bellona - all class.

Thinking of putting in an order for some made of Madagascan ebony with white oak handles please.

Great stuff well done.

Alan

Ed

Looking wonderful. Like Maurico I have wondered at times whether you have a team working for you or whether you have added CAM to your CAD?

One question, when you set out on this journey did you estimate the quantity of wood you would require or are you picking it up as you go along?

Cheers

Alan

Thanks Druxey/Grant

I was running today with a No 5 blade in the Hegner range. Not the finest blade by any stitch.

In the pieces I was cutting there would have been probably 5 teeth may be 6 cutting the timber. It was pretty soft wood so it was a pleasure but disappointed at times at my lack of control particularly around the chock region. Lack of practice or cold hands or both.

Reinforced the importance of having a few practice goes before tackling the real deal.

The previous day I had been cutting mahogany again using the no 5. I felt I probably had a bit better control with this. Thicker/denser wood.

I could go out to a no 9 which would probably have 3 teeth covering the first futtock thickness. There are a couple of others which look more brutal!

Happy to experiment.

Thanks again for your interest.

Regards

Alan

Ed

This looks like a really interesting project.

You may want to look at a map that Sir John Evelyn, a well known English diarist who owned a manor in the area in the late 17th century, drew up of Deptford and its environs at that time.

It would be interesting to compare the changes over the period.

A digital copy is on Google.

cheers

Alan

Well back in the workshop after completing a job of work writing a paper. My first "job" post retirement. Hmmmm!

Canberra is becoming chilly as winter starts to bite. The workshop sans heating doubly so.

I locked the keel on to the building board and I am pretty happy with that.

To warm up and get the eyes and the hands back in the groove. I decided to do a test run on the first of the frames.

Using some old scrap I cut out and rubber cemented the templates and warmed up the scroll saw.

A bit rusty, as Greg and David say,  there is a fine line between cutting too far out and to close to the line.

Time now to take a run cutting out the templates using the swiss pear.

cheers

Alan

Hadn't thought of pliers Druxey. I'll give that a crack tomorrow.

Thanks for the tip

Alan

Ed  I am absolutely with you on the preference of razor blades over surgical blades. I have the no11 that Druxey refers to and have on several occasions done some not so neat surgery to my fingers, thumbs, hands and foot trying to fit said no11 to surgical handle.

One may ask how does the foot fit into this story. Dropping the said no 11 after doing surgery on my hand and having it land point down in my foot! 

Stay with the blades Ed.

If nothing else, the cut on the skin is straight - much easier to sew up!

Alan

Brilliant Ed. Absolutely brilliant!!!!

Alan

Agree with Wayne, two great ships framed perfectly. Well done.

You are a brave lad to take on the Admiral's stuffed animals!

Careful the Admiral doesn't requisition the covers because they would set off the stuffed animals perfectly as well!!

Cheers

Alan

Thanks Ed very much for the comprehensive response.

I had a feeling you may have answered my question earlier. My apologies for not finding it.

You have built up quite a collection of pages with your three builds.

Regards

Alan

Ed

A question if I may about your framing.

When you built Naiad you designed and used a very nifty framing jig which you don't appear to have used, adopted/adapted for your YA build.

Instead you appear to use pins.

Was there any particular reason why you didn't go the jig route? 

The frames looks superb by the way on both vessels.

Many thanks

Alan

Mark

Given the stalls are full as is the dress circle and royal boxes I managed to find a seat back stage on a sea chest.

Looking forward to seeing your build.

Given Licorne's French antecedents will we be seeing different framing techniques?

Alan

Has it arrived yet?

It will be good to hear how it stacks up against your model.

Alan

Now Ed you really are killing me.

You might want to check out The Really Right Stuff web site. They have a brace of camera brackets, rails etc etc which are really right up your alley.

Indeed you might want to talk to them as there really is a niche for what you have come up with.

Very clever Ed well done.

Alan

Thanks Mark for your comments. As you say once you have seen Ed, David, Greg and Remco's works and others they provide a very compelling case. 

Regards

Alan

Mark

You are the third or fourth person who have recommended New Mexico as a place to visit. Thanks for letting me know about Taos.

If you had your time over, would you have still gone with the Hahn method?

I have read on this and in other forums/books that there are pros and cons with the Hahn approach .

Thanks for sharing your build.

Alan

Mark is Taos some model boat builder's nirvana?

I could see nothing wrong with your previous planking attempt but this latest effort is just about perfect and in keeping with the rest of the project.

A stunning build.

Alan

Looking good Grant.

Very fine work you are doing.

The isopropyl sounds fiddly?

Alan

Found a nice piece of red oak and will use this for the building board.

The frame plan has been glued down and I just have to get a couple of anchor screws to lock the keel on to the board.

Pinched from my eldest son (Alex) some suitable illustrator board for the jig and will cut this out and glue up tomorrow.

Looking forward to the next stage.

cheers

Alan

Ben

I should preface my last remark about next build inasmuch as I am keeping a weather eye on Seawatch books for David Antscherl's next magnum opus which I understand will look at an 18th century fireship. If it is anything like his previous publications this might be the go for next build?

Aside from earlier mover advantage, this sounds like the perfect build for me.

If I stuff up, I could always have a reenactment of the siege of Cadiz in the bath and set fire to it.

Hmmmm the more I think about it ???

Cheers

Alan

Hi Ben

Thanks for your post.

I have been around most/all the stores for quite a while and was getting blank looks or worse from the attendants. Grant's steer with Carbatec looks like it is the go although on their site they don't list the tracks by themselves just the kit but I'll call them next week.

There is no great urgency but I am gearing up to follow you with a full build of a Swan in the not so distant future. It is a pretty crowded/popular build scene - a credit to David and Greg. I recall seeing somewhere on the site a list of who is building what in the swan domain and there have been quite a few new entrants since.

Been trawling through NMM checking out the plans.

Hope you don't mind me following in your footsteps and about 25 others.

Cheers

Alan

Ed

I am running out of superlatives. This is a stunning build!.

I need to check out the chemical plants that you spent 25 years designing and building. Were they as stunning as this and Naiad and Victory?

One question if I may, how many hrs a day do you devote to this? I can't get over your industry and how quickly you have got to this stage.

Thanks for sharing your build it truly is inspirational!

Alan

Thanks Ben, Greg and Druxey

This is a really handy tip.

My side of the brain would not have thought of that in a million years!

Alan

Spot on Grant. The Admiral took my wallet away before I left the car.

Just checked out Carbatec.. Great lead. System is a fraction of the price to ordering from US.

Now if I could only work out where she hid the wallet!

Cheers

Alan