Seventynet
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Nils, what a delightful feast for the eyes! I really enjoyed your build and dialog. Ian -
Beautiful build BE! Thanks for sharing your incredible skills. Ian
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Chuck, congratulations on a fine build. This, as all of your builds, is such an inspiration to me and I eagerly look forward to the next project. Ian
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Thanks druxey!
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Good day, Thanks for the helpful comments and all the likes. The drop planks have been extended which may look a bit better. Now it’s back to interior work. Until next time. Ian
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Thanks for your valuable guidance as usual druxey. It shouldn’t be too difficult to fix. I know it would bug me forever if I didn’t fix it. Ian
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Alan, Thanks for dropping by. I didn’t mean to upload that “movie”. I'll replace it when I'm home from the hospital’s lousy internet connection. Thanks too for your comment on the drop planks. All I needed was one comment to push me to the right conclusion but now that I have druxey’s opinion there will be no more hesitation. Ian
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Good Day Shipmates, Thanks for all of your likes, I greatly appreciate them. This is a small update. I finished planking above the wale with Castello and carried on with treenailing, which is a first for me. The guidance suggests only treenailing above the wale but I am sure that is to not discourage first time scratch builders from the operation. I support that idea! 😀 Anyway, I did not have any luck splitting bamboo skewers so I used [English] boxwood in the Byrnes drawplate. I have a final question for anyone that has an opinion for this. I am not convinced that my drop planks under the wale look right. I’ve added pencil lines indicating perhaps where I should have ended them which may (or may not) improve their look. Thanks Ian
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Pulling up a chair to watch another one of your beauties! Ian
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Greetings all, Some progress to report. I installed the starboard wale using Castello. Now that I’ve completed the hull planking I’ve discovered how bendable and easy to work with Holly is. I should have used that as David’s instructions suggested. Hull planking was straightforward except I ended up with two drop planks at the bow under the wale. Even though I had lined off the entire hill I let the bow planks use up too much room. I think it looks ok. The challenge with the fashion piece is to achieve a flush continuum with the hull planking. Don’t ask me how I know that. 😳 I covered the area between the fashion piece, stem and wale with scotch tape then traced the boundaries with a pencil. I removed the tape and laid 6.3 mm planks on the sticky side then sandwiched the whole thing in a layer of tape. That formed a very stable structure that allowed my to cut and sand the assembly to the outline then disable and install each plank one at a time. This required very little fitting. I moulded the tuck rail using 5mm Castello and a micro shaper I had lying around. Til next time. Ian
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Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing this. Building one of these is definitely in my bucket list and this just increases my motivation. Ian
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Absolutely beautiful model Paul. Congratulations on her completion! Ian
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Toni, could you explain why square wire is preferable to round wire especially considering the hole must be drilled round? thanks, Ian
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Thank you Tobias, very much appreciated. I’m afraid my work pales in comparison to yours. I hope to get back to work on the Hoy soon now that I’ve completed Toni’s highly distracting (NRG) capstan project. 🤓
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Very nice work! Ian
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Congratulations Dave, beautiful work! Ian
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Terrific job Glenn! That AYC sure is beautiful.
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Thank you Greg, that’s an excellent idea. I will do that before I turn it over. Ian
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Thanks Paul, I appreciate it. I have found this part of the build to be very enjoyable and working with these woods makes life very easy. Ian
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