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The painting looks very convincing. I'm still in doubt wether to paint my friezes or not....

Druxey is right, I remember from my arts classes at the uni, soak the paper really well and use special tape to tape it down to a board. I used the same technique to prepare paper for airbrushing.

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My hat is off to you Sir, splendid work.

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Thanks all.

David B, well the thing is I'm building Admiralty style so as I'm not adding any more planking it looks like the straps are underneath the planking. But if you  look closer you can see small shims I used to compensate for the lack of planking on the lower two gudgeons.

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Very nice planking Ed!

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Jan, the bottom of the rudder should be higher than the top of the false keel. Otherwise the false keel (if it comes of when hitting ground) would rip off the rudder in the process. The issue occurred when I marked the hight of the pintles using the pre cut slots on the sternpost. I should have noticed it then  

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Thanks all for helping me to sort this out. 

Jan, 0,5 mm copper rod scored with a sharp blade made the screw head.

Sorry Grant, no way I can make working screws on this scale

So that said, the gudgeons are made, again from brass strip and bar silver soldered together and formed to follow the hull curvature. I'll probably use some castello shims to compensate for the missing hull planking. Some adjustments are still needed before I can bolt the gudgeons permanently to the hull. Somehow gudgeon #5 ended up under the transom planking

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Michael,

Thank you very much for your elaborate answer, this is very helpful. I now understand I need to add a few very important steps in my drilling procedure. One being to start using a good center drill  to mark the drill points.

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Michael, your metal work is exquisite and a joy to watch.

Do you use some sort of sensitive drilling attachment when you use the PCB drills? Mine always break whenever I use them in the mill or drill press and whenever possible I revert to drill small holes by hand (a tedious task.....)

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Piet, the jol is beautiful.

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Looks really wonderful Gil, I love the different shades of colour and with the details added it really comes to live.

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Congrats Mark, she's coming together great!

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The cross section of your hull planking shows how incredibly good your planking skills are. The joints are perfectly tight though out the thickness of the planks, not an easy task.  I forgive you for hiding this nice detail with a perfect stern section

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A long overdue update, be it small is more than one way

The tiller hole was repositioned and the hoops were added

The pintles are browned, bolted & screwed to the rudder, (okay I simulated the screws.....)

Next up the Gudgeons, any ideas how long they need to be? TFFM only shows one, are #2 to #5 all the same length?

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Looking great Ben. I remember how tedious the framing was on my KF and I allowed myself the occasional break to make a sub assembly of some kind for use further down the road. Hang in there you are nearly there.

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She looks wonderful Tony, I really like the contrast of the fully planked hull side next to the bare one.

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This is metalworking of a whole different league..... Splendid work Michael.

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2.0 Is even better than 1.0, good job Piet!

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Oh yes, the hooks look much better. 

Which etching service did you use?

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Interesting detail, and very nicely executed.

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Karl, that is really stunning.

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Looks awesome Rusty!
 

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Looking very sweet Piet

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Good to see your updates again Sir, looking great.

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I'd say it looks great!
 

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Ed I admire how proficient you are with installing the knees. It takes me the better part of an evening to do maybe two, it looks like you did the whole deck in a fraction of that time.

Admirable work as always.

Remco