Kevin Kenny

Now complete

I follow the art of boat building as well and you are right. What i find so interesting is that we follow as much as we can, the same techniques in model building. Sometimes it so hard to see the techniques but in full scale it becomes so obvious .

kevin

New rack for the clamps on the work bench to reduce the clutter.

When you dont know what you are doing you can purchase all sorts of useless crap on line. I purchased the gauges along with the portable valves (just to cover my donkey) to set up the Chinese knockoff of the Smith Little torch. The oxygen worked fine but when i tried to connect the gas gauge (LPG) there was no local supplier that could accommodate me with the CGA 200 connection on the gauge.  Then i went to at least 10 different wielding suppliers and non could help me find an adaptor. Thank goodness i purchased the small bottle valves. 
eventually i was able to hook up a medical oxygen bottle ( of which i have 2) to the Bernzomatic gas and got it to work. A real pain in the donkey 

I like it. I tried to do this with one of my models the Naparima. The problem is that after installing it the string did not work and i could not retrieve it to get it fixed. You might want to think about how you can retrieve it if it need to be serviced.

kevin

This should make you happy Greg. Sawdust everywhere. 

Why not blacken brass or copper?

I have been traveling a bit so will complete the planking next week. 

We had some guest coming over who wanted to see my shop so i had to clean it up. It looks so nice when its clean 

Here are the 3d drawings which shows them equal.

I think you are correct. The knee is level with the top side of the beam. I do not think there is anything wrong with this

Yes i like that touch. Any reason why you did not do the others in lead?

In tobago for a week. Plank 9 complete with no major challenge. I am looking forward to closing them up

Well you know me by now, ive done a video on making these little monsters. If anyone is interested i can send you the post. I used Juniper, waramara to make mine. Next time i take the Sherline out ill try the Lignum vitae.

Very nice.

The finial plank on this band of strakes.

You forget that we did this on the internal planks. This would have been so much easier to do on the external planks but the book did not want us to use stealers, so we followed the book. I have to say this is the first time i shaped both ends of all the strakes  for the entire hull rather than force bending them into shape and what a difference it made. I was always worried that having to finish the open side of the plank would result in  irregular surface causing a difficult joint when the next row of planks was applied, but this turned out not to be so. I found  that the hand plane made it very easy to prepare a nice smooth line on the exposed side of the plank.

Alan, i have since tapered the wooden end even more as i was having difficulty getting it close enough to the rudder post. 

Improved on the push clamp again. It works great.

Your ability to line up and  cut the recesses for the carlins is so accurate and is excellent. Can you describe the process.  Kevin

Nice clean work

Challenging to get the end pieces to bend perfectly. I pre bent the pieces off the model then I had to make up a push jig to hold the end into the stern.  It worked thank goodness.