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  1. hdrinker
    Breastworks, belfry and waist guns completed.
  2. hdrinker
    Breast work, wheel tackle. Pausing before tackling the belfry capital.
  3. hdrinker
    Wheel and tiller, minus riggings
  4. hdrinker
    The wheel
  5. hdrinker
    Progress on the quarterdeck. Starting the wheel, using Greg’s method, which so far has worked really well. I found that making the spokes by hand is easier for me than using the lathe.
  6. hdrinker
    Where does one order coffee wood in sufficient bulk to accommodate a figurehead carving? Qq
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    Further progress on the focs’l
  9. hdrinker
    I put the cowl away somewhere so I wouldn’t lose it, and of course, I couldn’t find it…..so, made a second one. They’re soldered brass made over a dowel template which I left within.
  10. hdrinker
    Stove cowl and baffle.
  11. hdrinker
    Further progress .
  12. hdrinker
    Aft bulkheads added. I found these a challenge. The construction varied a little from the book. I found it worked OK to use holly of the prescribed thickness and make the beveled panels with a #11 blade cut in at an angle. Getting the right fit to the inner sides was done first for the fore and aft bulkheads using heavy cardboard. These were then incorporated into a cardboard blank which provided an exact pattern of the whole bulkhead. The section and panel lines could then be drawn on this template. I used the band saw to cut the sections so the kerf of the saw blade had to be considered, as subsequent assembly of the various sections together would otherwise result in a shortened bulkhead. So a new pattern was made in cardboard redrawn to a greater length with the kerf lines added. The pattern was then transferred to a wooden blank with all the lines drawn and the sections and doors cut out. The result was a pair of bulkheads very close to the necessary width with the lines for the panels straight all across. The final challenge involved the fore and aft bulkhead between the transverse bulkheads. This joins the transverse bulkheads at the inner frames of the starboard doors and is meant to be parallel to the center line of the model. To accomplish this, the starboard doors of the transverse bulkheads need to line up with each other accordingly. This required that the door positions of those bulkheads be drawn in the right location initially. That location, moreover, needs to be close enough to the center line to accommodate the ring bolt of the gun tackle between those two bulkheads. I admit to not being aware of this last detail when I drew the original lines for the doors and panels. As a result, my fore and aft bulkhead does not lie parallel to the center line. Not a big deal since it won’t be seen anyway. But for the perfectionist these considerations might avoid redoing the bulkheads after the matter is discovered. It will be noted in the second image that the gun port lid tackle has been added only for the port gun lids. My plan is to tackle the focs’l next before completing the deck beam construction.
  13. hdrinker
    After guns and lids done. Preliminary quarter deck beam fitting.
  14. hdrinker
    Have started the gun carriage tackle. Not including the hardware on the carriages themselves, there are a total 96 blocks, 96 eye hooks and 80 ring bolts. All to be blackened and lacquered. A daunting task of which making the metallic components alone occupied the day today and will do so for another several days for blackening, etc. Haven’t begun the blocks.
  15. hdrinker
    Transom lites and mouldings.
  16. hdrinker
    Taking encouragement from Kevin Kenny, I embarked on the scrolls with some satisfaction in the results.
  17. hdrinker
    Kevin, my wife, who is an artist, and I watched your frieze video and were blown away. You’ve inspired me once again to tackle a part of this build I thought was way beyond my skill level. Henry
  18. hdrinker
    Second iteration of the stove, the first not fitting between decks well. Ready to begin blackening the cannons.
  19. hdrinker
    Cannon barrels turned on my MicroMark mini lathe using a follower set up. They’re not as exactly identical as those made from a casting but once blackened it’s difficult to tell.
  20. hdrinker
    Beginning work on the stern lights while I await delivery of narrower brass rod for turning cannon barrels.
  21. hdrinker
    Thanks Kevin. As it turned out, I used a blackening solution which after several applications undid much of the fine detailed soldering. So several steps back, I persist. But I no longer shake in fear at the soldering process. I’m using resistance soldering almost exclusively and find that with a sharpened tip, the heat can be applied to a very small area without threatening adjacent joints. When there’s an issue, yellow ochre paste applied to the joint at risk works well .
  22. hdrinker
    Progress, although not of the standard set by Captain Giampierocicci!
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  24. hdrinker
    First real attempt. Very challenging! Inside grates didn’t line up correctly and things a bit askew, so am starting again.
  25. hdrinker
    Beautiful, Kevin!

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