ca.shipwright

Greetings,
Time for another update. I started over last week after receiving the new framing from Mantua and have just about caught up to where I was before.

There are several pictures and I will have several photo posts along with this.

The ship is coming along rather nicely. A couple of millimeters off here and there to be adjusted later.
The first photo shows how much less the beam is on the model than the actual ship according to the AOS.

The blue bands that are holding the bow blocks together until the glue sets are the disposable tourniquets that the blood suckers err phlebotomists are using now. They work real well on any non parallel surface.

There are many recurring measurements on this ship that introduce a chance of small errors from repeating viewing. I remembered a method from my wood working days of cabinet and furniture making that helps. They are called story sticks. You put the distance on the stick one time and draw the line on the work piece. It's a lot easier that moving a ruler around each time and gives me more consistency.    The jars have all the pieces for the gun port frames that I made while I was waiting for the parts to arrive.   You can see two braces that I installed on the quarterdeck bullworks. I got tired of breaking these pieces off because there was no framing support. They are thin enough to disappear when the inside planking goes on.

Here come the photos           _______________
Michael Zemmel
Midlothian, VA
Completed: AVS, MS Benjamin W. Latham
Building: Corel HMB Endeavour, Panart HMS Victory,
"Buy all your toys before you retire"
ma.zemmel@gmail.com                
                                                 

Greetings,
Port side middle gun deck gun ports installed. Filling in planking between the gun ports will complete this side. Not perfect, but not too shabby either. Filler and sanding will take care of most of the irregularities. Photos to follow.

Chapter 3 is done!!!!!!!
Main deck and quarter deck gun ports installed and sanded to 320. Camera showed some additional filler to be added.

Got a full eight hours in for the first time ever. It's amazing what you can accomplish in a full days work. I even skipped lunch. Very unlike me to miss a meal.

A question in my mind is whether or not to delay applying the red and black color to the gun port frames until middle and lower deck gun ports are installed to keep them from getting messed up with the continuous handling? Or, do it now?

Also do you wipe on poly before and after or after adding color, or both?

Also milled all the parts for the middle and lower deck gun ports as a diversion.

I made up several of the boxes for the middle and lower gun decks. I think I am correct when I say that the critical measurement is the opening length and width of the gun port which is 13/32 inch on the upper and quarter decks. This should carry over to the lower decks. I actually kept the die for the gun ports but the center piece is a 1/32 " to narrow. I want to see if this can be adjusted. More on this after the testing.

Greetings,
Time for another update. I started over last week after receiving the new framing from Mantua and have just about caught up to where I was before.

There are several pictures and I will have several photo posts along with this.

The ship is coming along rather nicely. A couple of millimeters off here and there to be adjusted later.
The first photo shows how much less the beam is on the model than the actual ship according to the AOS.

The blue bands that are holding the bow blocks together until the glue sets are the disposable tourniquets that the blood suckers err phlebotomists are using now. They work real well on any non parallel surface.

There are many recurring measurements on this ship that introduce a chance of small errors from repeating viewing. I remembered a method from my wood working days of cabinet and furniture making that helps. They are called story sticks. You put the distance on the stick one time and draw the line on the work piece. It's a lot easier that moving a ruler around each time and gives me more consistency.    The jars have all the pieces for the gun port frames that I made while I was waiting for the parts to arrive.   You can see two braces that I installed on the quarterdeck bullworks. I got tired of breaking these pieces off because there was no framing support. They are thin enough to disappear when the inside planking goes on.

Here come the photos           _______________
Michael Zemmel
Midlothian, VA
Completed: AVS, MS Benjamin W. Latham
Building: Corel HMB Endeavour, Panart HMS Victory,
"Buy all your toys before you retire"
ma.zemmel@gmail.com                
                                                 

Great work Jesse. Your deck is becoming very active with all he detail.
 
Not being a lather, although I recently got a midi, somewhere I read that old hacksaw blades make good profiles for turning small parts. Do you know anything about this? Especially how to cut the profile.Thanks
 
Regards

Great work Jesse. Your deck is becoming very active with all he detail.
 
Not being a lather, although I recently got a midi, somewhere I read that old hacksaw blades make good profiles for turning small parts. Do you know anything about this? Especially how to cut the profile.Thanks
 
Regards

Perfectly simple solution to the mast rake drilling. It never pays to overthink the problem.
Nice work.
 
Regards

Thank You Richard!!!!!!!!!

You can make a template from card stock from the side view plan to get the correct rake of the mast. Place this where the mast goes and align the drill bit parallel to the template.

You can make a template from card stock from the side view plan to get the correct rake of the mast. Place this where the mast goes and align the drill bit parallel to the template.

You can make a template from card stock from the side view plan to get the correct rake of the mast. Place this where the mast goes and align the drill bit parallel to the template.

Your build log will be a great reference for my future build. You are doing a great job. Thanks for sharing.
 
Regards

Perfectly simple solution to the mast rake drilling. It never pays to overthink the problem.
Nice work.
 
Regards

Chapter 3 is done!!!!!!!
Main deck and quarter deck gun ports installed and sanded to 320. Camera showed some additional filler to be added.

Got a full eight hours in for the first time ever. It's amazing what you can accomplish in a full days work. I even skipped lunch. Very unlike me to miss a meal.

A question in my mind is whether or not to delay applying the red and black color to the gun port frames until middle and lower deck gun ports are installed to keep them from getting messed up with the continuous handling? Or, do it now?

Also do you wipe on poly before and after or after adding color, or both?

Also milled all the parts for the middle and lower deck gun ports as a diversion.

I made up several of the boxes for the middle and lower gun decks. I think I am correct when I say that the critical measurement is the opening length and width of the gun port which is 13/32 inch on the upper and quarter decks. This should carry over to the lower decks. I actually kept the die for the gun ports but the center piece is a 1/32 " to narrow. I want to see if this can be adjusted. More on this after the testing.

one more. reposted
Screwed up with the photos
 
 

I am also going to super detail my Victory. It will be interesting how much these ships will resemble each other.
 
I now how you get so much done so fast. I spent my first ever 8-hour shift in the boatyard, even skipping lunch, and was amazed how much I got accomplish. This is the way to go.

I am also going to super detail my Victory. It will be interesting how much these ships will resemble each other.
 
I now how you get so much done so fast. I spent my first ever 8-hour shift in the boatyard, even skipping lunch, and was amazed how much I got accomplish. This is the way to go.

What I usually do to glue the bulkheads to the center keel after getting them in the correct position is to take a paint and brush a nice bead of Wellbond glue (it dissolves with alcohol) on the four 90 degree angles. This is much like caulking and I have never had a joint loosen.
 
Hope this helps

Greetings,
Another update. I completed the port side of the main deck gun ports. I thought they came out rather well. Slimming down the interfering bulkheads and cutting one off is a real pain. I can't wait to see how much trouble this is going to be on the quarterdeck and middle and lower gun decks.
I had my first service problem with my Byrnes saw in it's 15 +/_ years service. The switch went out. First, the polarity reversed and I continued to use it even though it wasn't safety smart. Then it died. 30 minutes to buy it and 15 minutes to install the replacement switch. And, away we mill.
I need to get a start milling the .045 in planking. There's a lot to do.
A little wood filler in the gaps and a good sanding should take care of most of the defects.  Most everything will be covered the second planking. The rest of the markings have been added to the upper sills.
It is worth noting; maybe: At first glace the gun ports on the three decks appear to be symmetrical. Not so. I was looking at the Corel template and they had some of them offset. I thought it was poor manufacturing. Not so again. I took a look in AOS and sure enough there are offsets between the decks.
 
Next up completing the gun decks and quarterdeck gun ports p/s. This is going to take some time. Next
update might be a while.
 
Regards to all

What I usually do to glue the bulkheads to the center keel after getting them in the correct position is to take a paint and brush a nice bead of Wellbond glue (it dissolves with alcohol) on the four 90 degree angles. This is much like caulking and I have never had a joint loosen.
 
Hope this helps

I am also going to super detail my Victory. It will be interesting how much these ships will resemble each other.
 
I now how you get so much done so fast. I spent my first ever 8-hour shift in the boatyard, even skipping lunch, and was amazed how much I got accomplish. This is the way to go.

Your build log will be a great reference for my future build. You are doing a great job. Thanks for sharing.
 
Regards

Your build log will be a great reference for my future build. You are doing a great job. Thanks for sharing.
 
Regards

Greetings,
Finally got enough done to post an update.

First, you never know how the bulkheads are going to work until you start planking. This is when the defects show up. As you know, I decided to make my own bulkheads and center-keel as well as the rest of the hull formers and sub-decks myself. This became quite a job and there are some discrepancies in the parts. I don't know how or why they didn't work better, but, perseverance and cussing and we prevailed.

I think a big issue was the fact that I used 6mm plywood and the kit used 5mm. A silly little mm, but, it adds up when you consider that the 12 bulkheads means a variance of 1.2 cm over the length of the ship. This made for adjusting all the slots to make them bigger and re-cutting the sub-deck slots around the bulkhead. Not a problem because all of this will be covered by planking.

I consider it a moral victory that I wound up within 1/8 in. of Bob's published numbers.

The big delay was in making and remaking the transom sides. Finally figured it out with Bob's help. Looking at the photo, it looks almost exactly the same as Bob's in the practicum. I consider this a huge win. I hope I'm right.

There are two places where there is a slight bulge in the planking. I may have shimmed the bulkhead to much. This will be corrected. I have to say, I looked and looked at the fairness of the hull over and over and didn't see this until the photos.

I took a break from building and milled all the pieces for the gun port frames out of boxwood. I really like making sawdust. It must be some primal feeling that I get as well as the smell of freshly sawn wood. Much like the satisfaction of freshly mowed grass on the golf course.

Photos to follow in this post and the following.

Greetings,
Finally got enough done to post an update.

First, you never know how the bulkheads are going to work until you start planking. This is when the defects show up. As you know, I decided to make my own bulkheads and center-keel as well as the rest of the hull formers and sub-decks myself. This became quite a job and there are some discrepancies in the parts. I don't know how or why they didn't work better, but, perseverance and cussing and we prevailed.

I think a big issue was the fact that I used 6mm plywood and the kit used 5mm. A silly little mm, but, it adds up when you consider that the 12 bulkheads means a variance of 1.2 cm over the length of the ship. This made for adjusting all the slots to make them bigger and re-cutting the sub-deck slots around the bulkhead. Not a problem because all of this will be covered by planking.

I consider it a moral victory that I wound up within 1/8 in. of Bob's published numbers.

The big delay was in making and remaking the transom sides. Finally figured it out with Bob's help. Looking at the photo, it looks almost exactly the same as Bob's in the practicum. I consider this a huge win. I hope I'm right.

There are two places where there is a slight bulge in the planking. I may have shimmed the bulkhead to much. This will be corrected. I have to say, I looked and looked at the fairness of the hull over and over and didn't see this until the photos.

I took a break from building and milled all the pieces for the gun port frames out of boxwood. I really like making sawdust. It must be some primal feeling that I get as well as the smell of freshly sawn wood. Much like the satisfaction of freshly mowed grass on the golf course.

Photos to follow

Very nicely done. I will continue to watch as my Victory comes along.
 
Regards