KeithAug
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Eberhard - I was reading back through some of your machining work - very nice and quite informative. The hull looks smart. -
Roger - no - to be honest its not one I have heard of. Thank you I will look it up.
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It’s all looking very smart John. I’m looking forward to seeing the planking - what do you intend using?
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I have to agree that the best holidays of my life have all involved the USA National Parks - some more than once. Unfortunately I have now done virtually all of them and the only unfinished business is Death Valley. We did attempt it once but unfortunately it was closed due to flooding!!!!!!!! Love the detail on the foredeck Dan - i particularly liked the detail on the chain break.
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Roger, Patrick, Dan, - thank you for your interest and comments. Michael - thank you and good to see you back. Mark - thank you, the colour is pure white - looking at the photo I see why you asked the question. I think it must be a photographic effect. I have had a few attempts at the scroll work. I started with Fimo but quickly gave it up, much too difficult (at least for me) to get the the thin strands to stay where I wanted them. I decided to have a go at using wire - which involed a deal of scrap white I learned the best way to do it. I started with 2 lengths of .040 brass rod. The first I hammered into a fine taper at the end - assisted by a number of annealing steps. One more annealing and I rolled the coil using a pair of needle nosed pliers. The second was hammered into chisel ended taper before being shaped to nest against the rod - again I employed a number of annealing steps. I used a blown up print of one of my Germania photos as a basis for building the scroll. I then started bending other scrolls from .031" brass wire. Again hammering the ends to tapers as required to blend into the joining surfaces. The larger curved piece was later replace with reshaped part. Other shapes were created and added - some of the finer ones out of .025" brass wire. Bashing wire with a small hammer proved to be quite satisfying. So I carried on......... In the next photo you can see that the largest curved piece has been replace by a similar piece terminating in a coil. The assembly has been soldered hence the mess!!!!! I soldered all the lot in one go by arranging the pieces together and then putting a very small piece of solder at each interconnection. Then I used my wife's kitchen blow torch to heat the lot in one go. It cleaned up quite nicely. I took a file and emery paper to the reverse side to take some of the curvature out of the wire. The observant of you will notice I have mistakenly omitted one of the pieces (idiot). The silver of the solder isn't a problem because the part will be painted gold to match the rubbing strip. I cut the piece to length and then bent and twisted the part to mach the curvature of the hull. In the next photo it is just lying on the hull - the photo has been inverted to show the final orientation. I then started to build the second one and at this stage found the missing bit. I gave up and had my dinner.
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Hmmmm! A river cruise is suddenly off the bucket list.
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Well done Patrick - it is testament to you skills that you have made such a good looking silk purse out of a sows ear.
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Roger - sounds interesting. I have not tried photo etch yet but may revert to this idea if other ideas fail me. Druxey. I was thinking of a variation on this - using wire to make the scrolls and adding the Fimo to show some of the detail. Eberhard - Yes, another interesting option. I will be very interested to see how it goes. Patrick - I cant remember that far back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I think the hull is much less interesting. I am still finding that the weather is keeping me out of the workshop. Whatever happened to the traditional British summer gone? Over course of a few hours I had a go at the decoration at the stern end of the rubbing strip. this was always going to be the easiest bit (despite my non existent Fimo skills). After trying a bit of unsuccessful freehand modelling I realised that I needed to start off with identical starting points, I rolled a piece of Fimo to the desired thickness and cut 2 strips of equal width and length. I found a spare ceramic tile was a good surface to work on and this had the added advantage that I could put it in the oven to cure. I pressed a longitudinal line into the Fimo and then created the leaf shapes by pressing in chevron lines with the end of a scriber. After baking in the oven I gave the decoration a couple of coats of gold enamel. At this stage I decided that the decoration was a bit too wide which made it look heavy when offered up to the hull. I therefore repeated the exercise using thinner strips of Fimo. I think with more practice I can do better, but for a first attempt I was satisfied and therefore mounted the decoration on the hull by clamping it in place and then running a bead of CA glue around the edge. I also started the experiment on the forward decoration, thus far without much success.
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Poor thing - but I bet he had a good life.
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Eberhard - yes, I am well aware of the skills of Doris. I think the best bet is to employ a Doris. Bruce - its new to me - Thank you I will add it to my birthday list. Roger - yes that's an option - not sure how it will cope with the thicknessI need - about .040" Phil - the craving would be a bit too fine for my level of skill. Mark / Vaddock - thank you.
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Kortes The only negative comment that I can direct at this build is that it is almost too perfect. I'm sure some idiot would have walked the deck in hob nailed boots but I cant see any signs of it??????
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Vaddock - Thank you. Their uniformity made me think you might have done something more complex. As ever on this site just a case of care attention and craftsmanship.
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Nicely done Eberhard. I may copy your method of making / flaring the outboard end of the hawse pipes.
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Beautifully neat work as usual Vossie. Nothing in life is certain - I bought a white dog and ended up with a spotty Dalmatian that thinks it's a seal.
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Very neatly done Mark. Given your machine tool limitations you achieve remarkable results.
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Paul I am tempted to say that I like the look of your knees - but I am fearful that this may be misconstrued!
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Gary, It used to be like this when I started my sailing career, we went everywhere with a compass and a trailing log and never failed to reach our destination. In latter years we had more electronics than I knew what to do with and on one notable occasion found ourselves in fog sailing across a headland (on land) or at least that is what the GPS told us. Your wheelhouses is beautifully fashioned and elegantly simple. thank you for the heads up on Gallery Glass - i will store that away for future reference.
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Patrick, That's more like it - plastic plants - just what I would expect from the owner. I enjoyed catching up and share your misery that the build is coming to an end - never mind every end is just a new beginning.
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Thank you all for your comments they are much appreciated. I continue to make very little progress. The weather has been generally good for almost a month and this means the garden drags me away from shipwright duties. I pray for rain and an enforced period of "shed" work. Here is the little progress I have made in the week since my last post. I am looking forward to getting the hull off the building frame - but first I need a cradle. I decided where I wanted the support to be and used the frame sections at these positions to make a template for the "saddle". The frames were cut from scrap 3/8" ply with the cutouts being 1/8 bigger all round. Notches were cut for the stringers and the stringers were notched to take the cutouts. I had a piece of 3M extra deep door draft excluder with which I lined the hull cut outs. I tested the fit and then glued the assembly together. I then glued in all the previously made portholes. To make sure that they all sat at the same depth below the surface of the hull I turned a .02" deep step in the end of a dowel and used this to push them into place. The rubbing strips need to be gold so I masked off the sides and ends of each strip. I then hand painted the gold with Humbrol enamel. I only needed to mask either side of the strip as over spray wasn't a problem---------------but the same couldn't be said for drips!!!!!! Fortunately the drip on to the white was easily corrected. The finished result looks fine. I now have to decide how to do the decoration at each end of the rubbing strips. The scale size of these features isn't terribly large the former will be about 2" long and the latter about 1". I'm not sure how I am going to do this but my current thoughts are to try making the latter from Fimo. The fineness of the swirls on the former make me think Fimo isn't a good option for this. All suggestions are welcome.
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Mark - very nicely done ------- but should you be using that base as a work surface???? or is it just a convenient photo stand?
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