Erik W

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

Thank you albert.
I started planking the hull under wales. But I soon found out that in order to finish gluing the planks in the stern area, it is necessary to glue the planks on the stern first.

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

I always cringe when I hear stories of accidents with beautiful models. I'm glad you were able to fix it.

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

This week I've been in assembly line mode with fashioning the breech ropes and attaching them to the carronades, and then attaching the carronades to the deck.  Chuck's advice on the seizings above has been invaluable for a newby like me.  Six down, four to go . . .
 
*note:  It looks like I'm using different color red paint.  It's the same bottle of Vallejo red I've used all along, but I've noticed it looks more orange when newly applied, but for some reason darkens to more red over time.  Weird.  At any rate, when not under the bright glare of a closely positioned halogen light for photos, the variation is not noticeable to the naked eye.
 
Erik

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

I reached a milestone this week.  I finished the carronades.  I spent the last week making rope coils and gluing them in place.  I used Glenn's (glbarlow) method, described in his Cheerful build log, of wrapping the rope around dowels glued into a piece of wood strip and securing the ends to the edge of the wood strip while the glue dried.  For glue I used diluted mat medium with a small amount of rubbing alcohol mixed in (this reduces surface tension).  I like mat medium for applications like this since it doesn't dry glossy, and in this case also doesn't darken the rope's color.  Once the coils were dry, I trimmed the ends of the gun tackle rope, and glued those to the deck using wood glue.  I then glued the coils down with Elmer's white glue.  I haven't used any kind of finish/sealer on this build so wood glue/white glue binds to the bare wood easily enough.  The last two photos below are brutally enlarged close ups, showing the gun rigging, warts and all as they say.  I'm actually quite happy with the way the carronades turned out.  This finished Chapter 10 of Chuck's monograph.  I looked back at my older posts, and it took me 6 months of daily progress to work through Chapter 10.  Luckily I'm not in any kind of hurry! 
 
And a quick funny story:  I had a random ship building dream (my first model building dream ever) where I dreamt that my arm hit one of the boom crutches and it broke off.  I woke up, and had the thought, "OK, I need to watch my arms and hands around the boom crutches".  That day, while working on the Cheerful, I was conscious of watching myself around the stern of the ship.  While finishing up, I partially moved a magnifying light I build under out of the way.  A few minuted later I moved the Cheerful, sitting on it's build board, toward me.  I then heard an audible snap as the boom crutch hit the edge of the magnifying light.  I turned my head in time to see the starboard boom crutch sailing through the air, on a beautiful arc, like an Olympic downhill ski jumper.  It seemed I had time to go through the entire 5 stages of grief before the part landed on the rug.  So . . . I spent part of the last week reattaching the boom crutch and touching up the surrounding paint.  I'm sure anyone reading this can relate to this story.  Haha.
 
Erik

Quarterdeck beams
I finished the quarterdeck beams using the ones from Chuck. Other than having to enlarge a few bulwark cutouts, it went smoothly. I scratched the transom beam which is made in two layers. It was adjusted in thickness in order to get a smooth run of planks. To do that I made the top 1/32" thick rather than 1/16". None of the beams are glued in except for the transom beam. The deck has a curved sweep. When I push down on the plank it sits flush with all the beams.


Mike

Bumpkins, Completed Headworks
 
I’m nearly at a the finish line.


The bumpkins, were they drunk when they named these…, are completed and installed. Like a few others I couldn’t bring myself at this stage and in this tight area to drill thru and/or remove moulding, so I faked it as best I could. The brackets are added using black masking tape.

The figurehead, the young man, patiently waiting, playing his mandolin, in my cabinet for three years, is now permanently installed along with the extensions of the hair brackets that have waited with him
 
The model is now sitting on my pool table, temporarily on its soon to be home. I’m working on the lantern, not sure if I will include it or not, we’ll see. I’ll also dust, touchup, paint and buff where needed before the final photos.
 
Thanks for stopping by.

Hi friends, photo Anson.

Johann,
 
I agree with Greg above, your rigging really sets the standard for what can be accomplished.  As I enter the rigging stage on my build (currently with the carronades and cannons), I'm inspired by your work.  While being a beginner myself, your close-up high resolution photos are very helpful as I learn what I need to do.  I feel with the rigging, more than any other aspect of the build, photos are most helpful with visualizing how to accomplish the tasks.
 
Erik

Johann,
 
I agree with Greg above, your rigging really sets the standard for what can be accomplished.  As I enter the rigging stage on my build (currently with the carronades and cannons), I'm inspired by your work.  While being a beginner myself, your close-up high resolution photos are very helpful as I learn what I need to do.  I feel with the rigging, more than any other aspect of the build, photos are most helpful with visualizing how to accomplish the tasks.
 
Erik

A small update:
Completion: Topsail halyards
The tackles for the topsail halyards are now all rigged.

 
See you soon...

Al,
 
Thanks for the kind words!  Yeah, if you look at the time stamps on my posts you see I took a 6 1/2 year break from the build after I finished planking the hull.  So I know what it's like to drift away from the hobby for a bit.
 
Thanks again,
Erik

Al,
 
Thanks for the kind words!  Yeah, if you look at the time stamps on my posts you see I took a 6 1/2 year break from the build after I finished planking the hull.  So I know what it's like to drift away from the hobby for a bit.
 
Thanks again,
Erik

Al,
 
Thanks for the kind words!  Yeah, if you look at the time stamps on my posts you see I took a 6 1/2 year break from the build after I finished planking the hull.  So I know what it's like to drift away from the hobby for a bit.
 
Thanks again,
Erik

Al,
 
Thanks for the kind words!  Yeah, if you look at the time stamps on my posts you see I took a 6 1/2 year break from the build after I finished planking the hull.  So I know what it's like to drift away from the hobby for a bit.
 
Thanks again,
Erik

Wow, your Cheerful looks amazing. I was following your build early on but I had some life changing family issues that took me away from the hobby for a few years. Seeing your works is a real inspiration to get back at it.

Glenn,
 
And I appreciate your recommendation a few months ago.  The fly tying thread works great for small applications.
 
Erik