These were mainly done as a way of breaking out of the frustration of a poorly executed solid hull Xebec.
I'd tried to do the proper curvature (and some planking ...) but had done my own lines rather than using the plans directly, and this involved sawing triangular chunks off a rectangular block and trying to 'get the curves' by sanding. Of the course the planks didn't go over them at all well (plus I was using brittle mahogany stripwood) and the result was poor and over-sized.
So I decided the proper next step was to go small, simple, but accurate. I took the measurements right off the plans on my computer screen and pencilled them on thin basswood with a steel ruler and a protractor. I got closer to the actual form of a ship with straight lines and angles than with the sanded curves on the Xebec. The down-and-up curve of the deck in particular.
I've been told I should get a chisel and a file if I want to do a fully 3D hull out of a solid block, and I'm looking into this now.
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Hi Patrick,
These were mainly done as a way of breaking out of the frustration of a poorly executed solid hull Xebec.
I'd tried to do the proper curvature (and some planking ...) but had done my own lines rather than using the plans directly, and this involved sawing triangular chunks off a rectangular block and trying to 'get the curves' by sanding. Of the course the planks didn't go over them at all well (plus I was using brittle mahogany stripwood) and the result was poor and over-sized.
So I decided the proper next step was to go small, simple, but accurate. I took the measurements right off the plans on my computer screen and pencilled them on thin basswood with a steel ruler and a protractor. I got closer to the actual form of a ship with straight lines and angles than with the sanded curves on the Xebec. The down-and-up curve of the deck in particular.
I've been told I should get a chisel and a file if I want to do a fully 3D hull out of a solid block, and I'm looking into this now.