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  1. rafine
    Sjors, thanks for the kind words. At this scale I "fake" the treenails by using wood filler. The technique is shown on p. 8 of this log. Bob
  2. rafine
    Rusty, I know nothing at all about lathes, but I do know that those carriages are as good as it gets. It would be a shame not to use them both. Bob
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    "Drilling and filling" took less time than I thought that it would and, so, the treenailing of the deck is done. I chose to fill with the lighter Golden Oak filler for the holly deck, rather than the Walnut that I used on the boxwood hull planking. After sanding, I finished the deck with Wipe-on Poly to seal and protect. With the deck done, I have multiple choices as to what to do next. While the temptation is high to do some fun stuff, probably, in keeping with long standing habits, I'll drill all of the holes for the inner bulwark eyebolts, ringbolts and cleats. Bob
  4. rafine
    Your work has always been spectacular, but this is just over the top. Bob
  5. rafine
    Beautiful work on the boat, Ron. Bob
  6. rafine
    Great to see you on your way with this one. A nice way to start the New Year. Bob
  7. rafine
    Thanks so much Augie and Grant and the "likes" as well. Bob
  8. rafine
    A very happy and healthy New Year to all. Somehow, I did manage to find enough "sneak away" time from my houseful of visiting family to complete the deck planking. The limited nibbing at the bow was pretty easily done using small chisels. It is amazing to me that I had never used chisels until I did the Triton cross section, but now I can't imagine working without them. The diminishing planks moving toward the stern were done with scarphed planks, although I'm not really certain whether that is correct. As a final step, I added a waterway from boxwood strip. While not prototypically accurate construction, I believe that at this scale it provides the correct appearance. Next up is the treenailing of the deck, which I have just begun. A lot of holes to drill and fill. Bob
  9. rafine
    Thanks Rusty and the same to you and yours. Bob
  10. rafine
    Many thanks to all for your continuing interest. I'll take this opportunity to wish the happiest of holiday seasons to the MSW community. Grant, really I like your idea of some "sneak backs". I just might do that. Ken, you raise an interesting question. There appear to be few nibbed planks on Essex, so I'm hopeful that my choice to notch them out in place will work. We'll see. Bob
  11. rafine
    Planking of the gun deck is underway. This work began with the drilling of holes to mount the masts. After that, I drew lines on the false deck to represent the location of the deck beams. This will determine the placement of the plank joints. The deck planking is holly. The first items to be done were the margin planks. The curved portions at the bow were cut from sheet stock, using the kit's laser cut parts as rough templates, and then sanding to fit the actual contours. The remaining portions were made from strip. The deck planking itself is holly strip, with pencil on one side and one end to represent caulking. I must be sick in the head, but I find deck planking to be addictive. Once I get started, I find it hard to stop. I had intended to initially do only the center part of the planking (see first three photos), but before I knew it, I had just continued outward (see last two photos). There probably will be some pause now, as I have a houseful of family for the holidays, beginning today. Bob
  12. rafine
    It's looking really great Augie. Bob
  13. rafine
    It looks great Rusty and convinces me that the next opportunity that I have, I will try the dye. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one using old tee shirts as applicators (It's what I use for Wipe-on Poly). Bob
  14. rafine
    Thanks Pavel. Bob
  15. rafine
    Thanks, Chris and the likes. Bob
  16. rafine
    A couple of small pieces of progress. First, I planked around the outer side of the stern windows and painted that planking black. Secondly, I began the cabinetry in the Great Cabin. The planking followed my practice of using boxwood and was straight forward and quick. The cabinetry is to be done following drawings in the Essex AOTS by Portia Takakjian. It will consist of an enclosure under the windows and two cushioned benches and a doored cabinet in front of that enclosure. I made the enclosure from boxwood sheet and strip to fit the space and finished it with Wipe-on Poly. I won't do the other items until after the deck planking has been done. I'm now working on the margin planks for the deck planking and will follow that with the remainder of that planking. Bob
  17. rafine
    Thanks, Remco. Glad to have you aboard. Bob
  18. rafine
    Thanks so much Frank for the kind words and all the likes. Bob
  19. rafine
    Thanks Grant and Ben. Bob
  20. rafine
    Many thanks to all for the generous comments and likes. Augie, it's buried so deep that it doesn't even make a sound. Bob
  21. rafine
    I've done the stern windows and the inner stern planking around the windows. Since I wanted to have something that would look right on both the inside and outside and since the kit provided 10 laser cut frames for the 5 windows, I decided to do something a little different. I decided to build up window "sandwiches", consisting of 2 frames with a piece of clear plastic between them (I'm sure that I've seen this done somewhere on MSW). With some thickness sanding, this created a perfect fit for the depth of the stern frames. As I had indicated early in this log, the width of the stern frames was excessive and this required some careful filing to open the spaces between the frames to get the window frames to fit. The window frames were painted white after they were sanded to fit. I then glued in the outside window frames, placed the the clear plastic behind them and then glued in the inside frames. This was all going well until somehow I managed to have an inside frame jump out of my grasp and become a permanent resident of the ship's hold. As a result, I had to make a replacement from strip wood. Thankfully, it's on the side that will be covered by deck planking and not visible. After the windows were installed, I chose to do the planking around them on the inside. This was done with boxwood, finished with Wipe-on Poly. I've started on the Great Cabin cabinetry. That and the exterior planking around the windows will be the next update. Bob
  22. rafine
    It's looking really good, Ken. Bob
  23. rafine
    Looking beautiful, Hamilton. I'm sure that I used Lees to do that as well, but I don't have any memory, the model or photos. Sorry. Bob
  24. rafine
    Thanks B.E. Always good to have you looking in. Thanks Terry. Bob
  25. rafine
    Thanks guys for the nice comments and the likes. I'm looking forward to the next couple of items of work from the relative monotony of plank, plank, plank. Bob

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