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Thanks Marcus

Thanks Andre, dank je.

Due to corona there is quite some spare time, so I progressed nicely. The deck beams for the halfdeck (english Quarterdeck I believe?) were all finished so I could start working on the closing of the maindeck. That meant making a lot of gratings... It took me the last 2.5 weeks to get it done. But more on that later But I started first on the schaarstokken, thickers strakes then the normal deck planks. That meant collecting a lot of saw dust but also some fine sanding to have them fit correctly over the deckbeams. Sawing the strakes, thickness 2x the deck planking wich will be 1.8mm thick and just about 8mm wide. And they are sawed so that the top is just as wide as a deckplank and that the top is flush with the planking. Milling the inserts for the beams. Not straight in first instance, the pieces moved. so I had to improve holding the pieces of wood against the miter. I used sanding paper The lot finished from fore to aft. After that I started on the gratings. Man that took me long to get it right. I followed a russian builders example but soon found out that it was noy my way of doing. It was based on sawing to 2 pieces and mount them counter wise and then removing top and bottom half. It was all too fragile for me. When removing the surplus material the parts were always easily damaged I went to making a saw sled mould that could saw both directions accurately and then filling with seperate pins. Be ware this is all 2mm in all directions, wide long and deep. This still took some inventing to do as my sawblades (Byrnes saw) were all US in inches. So at last after finding a kerf 2mm sawblade it still had to be mounted to the arbor. But an adpater ring was easily found (Thanks mr Bosch!) Here prepared for striking it with heavily diluted PA glue with water. After drying it is better to work on. I then found my spacing of deckbeams irregular out of line. So I had to go back to redoing the strakes with correct, even spacing. Status of today. I still have to redo the middle grating of the 5 adjoining. I cut it a little short as you can see. But overall satisfied with the result. 7 So I will continue to finish this deck and then probably the inner hull planking up to the half deck C U later, Hans.

Weer boven water! He is topside again. Netjes hoor!

https://www.modelbouwshopnederland.nl/en_GB/c-1720484/copper-plate/

0,4mm and it is soft copper, so no need for annealing in fire or so. bought at a Dutch internet modelshop

Marcus, when doing the planking and scarphs on my ship I found that each scarph-joint was different due to the bending etc of the planks. Maybe that is also something that Ab means by his comments? I also had a mould but needed to sand each scarph afterwards for a nice, flush fitting.

Thanks Marcus. And toy toy toy with your build!

Happy Easter everybody! A nice progress in the last weeks. I painted the orlop using this as a test for later decks that will be seen. I liked the outcome but it has to be a little lighter brownish. Started also mounting the bits and pieces on the orlop. As I will close the main deck soon this has to be done first. A pity you will not see anything later on. I will not mount canons on the orlop, I will close most gunhatches or slightly open some for fresh air, as was sometimes done in these days. Then I started working on the deck beams for the halfdeck and finished setting the masts in the correct position. They will be loose but if the 'vissingen' are placed and fixed they will be automatically have the right setting. Pictures speak for itself I think. A few pics on the process of the deckbeams.

The Corona has left us with some good spare time so I progressed well with the fortuining (klinker in english I believe). I succeeded keeping the numeber of planks the same everywhere but has to slope them some to come to the final result. I installed the last 3 gunports using pre-fabricated rabbits. So I took out a good part and inserted the pre-fabricated rabbit. Now I am busy sanding the rest of the gunports. Next step will be the beams of the verdek and fixing the details on the gundeck and closing that. I will probably leave the gunports of the gundeck closed or slightly open, but I will not install any canons. I also set out the internal lines for the remaining decks. g Checking that the internal deck lines run horizontally paralel.

Beautiful! So much inspiration and learning to do for me. Thanks.

So yet another month passed by. Some weeks holiday and some other work came also by so not much happened. I started to work on the Gunports in the Fortuining. I had to do quite some repair work as the ports did not coincide very well with the frames, as in the drawings. In the end I cut out quite some area's and rebuild them anew. Both sides are done now. Still at each side 3 upper gunports, that is for the coming days. After that I can start on the Fortuining. As I had a lot of sanding to do there was quite some movement in the frames so I put some reinforcement between the sides. The rest speaks for itself, a long and tedious job. But the better this is done the easier it will be onwards. I intend to make these ports without rabbits or gunport hatches. As I read somewhere that these were not always fitted. (making life easier for me). Although maybe I change mind later on....

As a month has gone by lets update. As there were some holidays and some other projects not much has happenend. I finished the galleries bottomsides. Also the windows under the Spiegel were placed. Next steps I decided to work on the Fortuining and getting the top side railings in the right shapes. I guess the glass wasn't perfect in these days as well, so I am happy with the results

Just before we go into the new year a last update. As the coming weeks the warf will be closed. I was not happy with the gallery and the method of the filling blocks. It put me in trouble for planking. So I went with an early advise of someone to make the bottom parts of 1 piece of layered oak. I used 3 layers of 6mm wide that nicely fits the size and shows an imaginary planking. The pictures explain the rest I think. I am going to fill the last part up and then plank it with same width small pieces.

Just a short note and update as it has been quite some weeks now. And I do not wat you to think I stopped building The hand has healed well so we can start building again. But we first went to Down under for 5 weeks I had hoped to visit the Endeavour but is was closed until end of this month. I am still thinking about the mass production of hinges so in the meantime I started working on Het Torentje... All still dryfit and first test models. And not to my satisfaction but we are getting there.

Very very nice. Interested to see you proceed. What is the wood used? Hans

Thanks!! It looks promising now after a couple of days.

thanks guys.

The work has stopped for a couple of weeks. Finally I underwent corrective surgery on the righthand. But before it, I was just able to comple some things. As said I am trying tio finish all on the gun deck. And the waterpumps.. Then the frontmasttop And finally the gunport hinges. I am working on a method to build them easily in quantity, production line like.. I hope to start building again in a couple of weeks. Have a nice weekend!

September. As said working on the Rahout and getting the right routerbit. I offered a proxxon bit for this, diamond sanding it to the right profile. This got me the right profile. I used walnut and not oak. I tried oak but that was to coarse to get a nice profile. Finished fitting them. Later on the difference in colour from the wallnut will dissappear after colouring. Then the kaapstaander. I will now finish all the parts of this gundeck so that as I start on the next deck this one can be fully fitted. Although I have not yet decided on guns. I am thinking to leave this deck with closed gunhatches and only fit gund where you can see them whole. Rounding the squares pole was not always succesfull...

I second that!! And not only that but a table top router as well. Like the proxxon MP400 but then Byrnes worthy

August. Not much progress, the weather keeps nice and warm so few hours to spend and also low motivation. Finished the foremast and mars, same procedures used as foir the main mast. T Then I worked the planking up to the rahout. I am now going to find a way to get (router??) the right profile for the Rahout. Not easy as it will be 5-6mm by 2,5 to 3 mm. I really have to build something here and make my own router bit.... Not easy

A small, dutch, but affordable kit company is Kolderstok. The have some nice kits, like Chuck, he (the owner) works by doing everything himself. http://kolderstok.nl/index.en.html Just my 5 cts. (ps No I am not related in anyway... 🤗)

Yes thats possible, but that leaves no nice surface and as the copper is soft it wrinkles and bends like h.... So I would like to remove it keeping nice smooth copper wire. Tried lots of solutions. None worked. Alass.

Received it today. Works great, very soft. Ordered 0.8 and 1mm. However since it is wikkeldraad there is an enamel paint over the wire. Tried different solutions to get rid of it, aceton, terpentine. But it wont solve. Maybe wasbenzine. Well, i.ll keep on trying. Thanks for helping me out Jan.