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Congratulations! She is a beauty and you did a splendid job!

With the jig gluing the frames was rather easy, only to secure that corresponding frames were of equal shape and size. First I made a test-fit and then glued all of them in place.

After glue has dried the jig can be removed.

After doing this on both sides, the building jig was reassembled again. That finishes the first installation / box. Next will be planking the inner side, I will give a sneak peak inside the box within the next days. Some final shots of the finished framework.
 

BTW I realized that I am a rather slow builder. Well ..

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Andreas

The cant frames are just glued onto the keel. But their position and tilt differ from frame 1 to 3. I thought about using different scrap wood parts to ensure correct alignment but the better solution turned out to be another jig. So I used the frames plan, scanned the segment and drew a jig with Corel. Printed that on adhesive paper and made a jig out of 1,5mm plywood.

Test fit for frames - passed. For better view and handling I removed the side door and the side panel, they‘re only fixed by screws.
 

Hope that will secure equal position of all frames when they are glued in ... in the next hour.

No. 1 is the tricky one. You have to determine first which side has to be attached to the keel and then taper them using the engraved lines as a guide.

These are the sides to be glued on later.

The rear tapering differs from the other ones. Each side has to be tapered to the center. Here are some pictures to get an idea.

Here you can see the tapering from both sides goes straight to the center.

Tomorrow I will give them a final sanding and then glue all of them in place.

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Andreas

The last frames are just single pieces glued onto the side of the keel.
 

Frame no. 2 (cant frame) requires some tapering on almost all sides. 
 

The other side as well.

I will show no. 1 as well but have to recover from second covid vaccination first.

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Thank you guys for the nice comments! Installation of the keelson was more time-consuming than expected. It is made of four segments. I first glued the stern part in - followed by the next part until the keelson was build up. I recommend dry-fitting each part several times until a nice fit is secured. Unfortunately it is difficult to catch with my camera .. 

The last step of the first box will be the cant frames.

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Andreas

Really beautiful!

Like this one?

Thank you Brian. Today I finally glued all frames in place. Bad luck - it has been raining all the time with humidity growing every hour. The white glue took about an hour for every step to dry but at least that helped me correcting the frames until I was satisfied with the result. 
 

I started midships and then worked my way up to stern. I disassembled the left-side panels of the jig to have a better view and left all frames in place so I was able to align the one to be glued onto the keel with the other ones.

Approaching the stern ...

There are several curves created by the lower, middle and upper futtocks to check the correct alignment.

After installing the rear ones I continued my way from midship to bow ..

So all frames except the cant ones are now glued onto the keel.

I will add the keelson and cant frames next weekend. Stay tuned and save..

Andreas

Today I finished all the counter-frames and glued them in place. The jig had to be modified for the frames to match the plan,

Now all frames are separated by equal space (about 8 mm) like shown on the plan. Just some final sanding before the inner planking will be started.

Next weekend I will start to glue all frames onto the keel starting with the stern frames .. 

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Andreas

As the jig was temporarily deconstructed I was able to take a sneak peek on the side ...

Thank you for all the likes. Frame no. 40 required a little surgery. The plan shows the frame on top of the lower transom ..

but the middle transom has no cutouts for the frame.

So I again had to deconstruct the jig and sanded just a little off the middle transom.

At last the frame needed some tapering. Test-fit passed 🤗.

Now I have to repeat that on the port side. 😰 

Frame 38 and 39 proved to be more time-consuming than expected. Frame 38 is made of two segments and then has to be tapered to fit the counter.

Still dry-fitted I have to squeeze some scrapwood into the jig to make it stay in place. Frame 39 is just a single peace that has to be tapered. Frame 40 is still missing.

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Andreas

Terrific job. She is a beauty!

Thank you very much Yves, this took most of the building time so far. The wood is rather soft and removing the laser char with electric tools is difficult because too much substance can easily be taken off. But I take my time. Only the last frames 38 - 40 and 1 - 2 have to be done, these are just single pieces added to the keel and counter. And then everything can be glued in place. I am heavily occupied by my self employment these days and this is slowing me down a bit. 

The keelson is build up from 4 segments. The slots have to be cleaned and checked first before installation, so that the frames will fit into them later.

Test-fit on the plan..

... and on the frames. Still nothing is glued yet.

I will make some final adjustments next weekend. Stay tuned and save.

Andreas

Very nice! You‘re approaching the finish line. Keep up the good work!

Very nice! I like the „painting with wood“ and your clean and crisp work. 

Finally found the time to correct the jig. The side-parts A1 - 7 have sawtooth pattern cut out to match the related frames but I had some difficulties to fit the frames in. So I deconstructed the jig (it wasn’t glued) and corrected all side parts basically by sanding off about 2 millimeters of substance. 
 

As the position of the frames is determined by the horizontal jig and the keel anyway changing the side-parts doesn‘t affect the geometry of the hull.

Now all frames are aligned properly but still only dry-fitted. I have to enlarge some frame-slots to fit in the keelson next. Then I will be able to show something new instead of frames all the time.

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Andreas

Wow, that is indeed a big ship and a nice subject to model. Good luck for your project and I‘m looking forward to watch your progress.

Nice, is this boxwood? Where did you buy the strips (if I may ask?)?

The Coureur is having my full attention, so I have to switch between both projects for a while. But I found some time to make more cannon parts. As I don’t own a lathe, I made myself some little tools to make the wheels by using a regular bench drill.
 

They‘re made of stainless steel tube with a thread (cut off from of a 1,2mm diameter screw) soldered into it. The wheels are drawn with a pencil using a template, a 1,2mm central hole is drilled and then they are roughly cut off from 1/16‘‘ sheet boxwood. The tool can be used to turn the wheels in my bench drill using spacers and a micro nut to lock the boxwood part.

I use these tools for turning small parts like wheels. The wheel is made by using sanding paper and a file, two wheels can be made at one. The diameter is checked by an electronic measuring stick several times until the desired diameter is reached. 
 

And I managed to do all front and rear wheels at once, 48 pieces.

Now only the axles and the side parts are missing. 
 

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Andreas

Fantastic work! It is difficult to recognize whether it is a model or a real ship.

Absolutely beautiful! 

Thank you all for the nice words and the likes. I have discussed all problems with Tom. But beside some misplaced tapering lines and the rather tight fit into the building jig no more building issues have been occurred so far.