michael mott
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Thanks for all the positive feedback. After gluing the case together the ends of the channels needed a little more work in the way of small extensions so that the water doesn't just trickle down the side and ends. This was accomplished by taking a small strip of mahogany, and milling a groove the same as the channels then shaping the outside curve to create a cup like extrusion. This end was then rounded with files and sandpaper Oh and i had some help these were then cut off with a jewelers saw and glued to the appropriate locations. The side channels were a little more tricky to cut, and had first to be sanded to the same angle. I did this by placing the cup shaped piece on the side of the case and finishing the end with the sanding block. Cutting these off was done slowly with the jewelers saw with my finger underneath the end to act as a support, As the blade neared the bottom of the curve I used a micro back and forth motion until the cut parted off the pieces. these were then glued to the sides After all the extensions were glued and set they were cleaned up with some 400 grit sandpaper. The top bar was then shaped with a block plane and files and connected to the case with a couple of brass woodscrews from below. Next the hinged lights need to be made and fitted. Michael
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Hi Altalena The final results of your hard work are evident in that last picture. A sleek looking sailboat indeed she looks fast and graceful, a credit to the builder. I agree that a case would help to keep those dust devils at bay. Congratulations on finishing the model. Michael
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Siggi I just spent a few hours going through your entire build, I think I will go sit in the corner and take up knitting. Beautiful workmanship and wonderful attention to detail, I also admire your strive and search for accuracy and intent. Michael
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Looks like a good start. Michael
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Thanks David and for the likes that other posted. Last pic for today of the centre beam roughed in. Tomorrow I will glue it together and finish the top edges. Michael
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I just caught this build Jesse, I applaud your patience with the globes, I think I would have given up, and just hung the boat. Very nice job. Michael
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Greg, thanks, regarding the Black and white, I saw some really fantastic black and white photographs of some early farm equipment on another model forum and thought about how rich many of the old black and white reference photographs were. The thing that I like most about them is the great depth of focus they had, even when blown up on the screen the details seem to remain really sharp. I wonder if that has anything to do with the difference between the old silver nitrate verses the modern digital processing. or possibly smaller F stop and longer exposures. The one thing that I do like about our new cameras is the ability to shoot in color or black and white, and the capability to delete and shoot again without having to send the film away and then be disappointed that 6 of the pictures were either too dark or too light or blurry. Michael
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Thanks Pete. Patrick yest the great thing about building in this scale is being able to pretty much follow the full size practices. I think that in many ways it is much easier especially with regard to material selection. One can get away with the out of scale grain in some places because of this. Michael
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Thanks everyone for the very kind comments and for all the likes. Yes I'm happy that the boys have great families and that they are both happy with their work. Back to the skylight now. Today I cut the dovetails for the corners, not as clean as I would have liked but acceptable for this one. First the backsaw for cutting the pins followed by the jewelers saw to remove the waste all the pins cut next the side boards were marked to receive the pins these were cut out with the jewelers saw and cleaned up with some needle files After the main frame carcass was dry assembled the ends were filed down with a safe edged square file, I like to sit the assembly on a sheet of sandpaper which grips the whole thing from sliding around without resorting to a vice or clamps. next the sawn rebate needed to be slanted so I sloped the side of a heavy sanding block (1 1/2 inch stock) and carefully sanded down the edge to the angle. Next will come the middle divider channel. Michael
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Watching with great interest of another beauty in the making. Michael
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Remco I for one am interested in how you accomplish this. Michael
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Thanks one and all for all the kind comments and congratulations Here is the gang in the style of who's on first My eldest son is holding my new granddaughter who was born to my youngest son and wife, right in front of me is my eldest granddaughter, born to my eldest son and his wife next to my eldest grandson who is a brother to the youngest granddaughter behind his cousin who is who is the nephew of my youngest son who is behind my third oldest grandchild. Oh I have no idea who the thin guy in the back is. Michael
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Bob Looks very interesting, that is a lot of detail at 1:200 basically the engineering scale for 1/16th. the website that you linked to is a great wealth of information for your model, if only every boat and ship we wanted to build had such great detailed first pages. michael
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A little more work this evening, I milled the half round water channels into the bottom half of the top beam composition, this beam appears to be made of the lower channels and a curved top part that accepts the hinges and forms the top radius. the middle channel on each side will get tennoned in when the sides are dovetailed to the ends. Off to Calgary tomorrow morning to see my new granddaughter who was born on the 16th of October. Michael
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Grant thanks for the vote of confidence. All those who added likes thanks for following along. I laid out the skylights on the forward part of the cabin roof and realized that I needed to change the length a little to take advantage of the beams underneath. I first marked out the hole with some blue masking tape and used a sharp #11 to knife along the ends to cut through the very top fibres the fir tends to be a little brittle and I did not want to upset any fibres during the cutting with the saw. I cut from the ends to the middle because of the size, this made it a bit easier to handle I did break one blade cutting the piece out. I used a 3 inch wide piece of aircraft ply with some sandpaper glued on with some double sided carpet tape as a large file to clean up the cut edges, making sure to only put pressure on the stroke towards the inside or bottom. the opening is now 36" wide by 50" long. Time to add the inside framing. Michael
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First time visiting Mike, beautiful job on the planking, I would be more than happy with those results. The other parts look very nice as well. Michael
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Chuck I always enjoy seeing your updates, always something new to learn, and yes your workmanship is inspiring. Michael
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Glad to see you back working on this next model. What material did you use as a base over the wooden mold before the application of the putty? Michael
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Thanks again everybody for the kind remarks and the likes. Dan, not sure about a book, but certainly I can develop some Step by step pages for the various parts. I did more organizing in the new work space in the house today. this evening I did a quick pencil sketch of the section for the cabin light. it will be Mahogany and will open. I was reading in my boatbuilding manual by Robert M Steward that 1/2 inch lexan is a good material for the lights. I used the basic design that is on Carlotta as there are a few good photos of the restoration of her lights in the 2006 restoration gallery here and here I am making a guess at the thicknesses of the materials for the main carcass using 1 1/2 inch thick stock. Carlotta had a very interesting history and I believe that she is still in based Canadian Waters. Michael
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Hi ggrieco, a very impressive start to your build log. The brass parts look like they have been milled with a CNC mill is this the case? I ask because the other tools in the shop background all look like simple manual tools. Michael
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Mike, Nils, Druxey, and John thanks for the positive feedback, and another thank you for all who added a like. I spent a fair bit of time today looking for the gaff crane to fix to the mast before setting it up, went through all the possible hiding places all the bins and containers that I had stored various parts. Then it dawned on me that it was attached to the gaff with the halliard shackle and blocks. I needed to rearrange the room a little and removed the sewing machine brought in the rolling base from the shop after changing the top for a slightly smaller one. It is a good job that our ceilings are all ten feet. Fiddling with the shrouds for the bowsprit seemed to take forever. Now she is beginning to look like a cutter again. Michael
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