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She really does look great Grant, and I guess the bittersweet feeling of completion is not far away. Any ideas on your next project? Inquiring minds and all that! Ben -
Thanks Andy, yeh this is the fun part tangeling with pesky cant frames that don't want to line up, had to remove one side of frame 3 as it decided to move position while the glue dried!! Here is aft cant pair #4 installed, just need to install the temp spacers. Ben
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Wow Alex, Those bulkhead panels and doors are exquisite, I love seeing your updates. Ben
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Hi Bob, Your doing a great job over there, I really like your QD framing, looks very clean and equal spacing. Ben
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Very very nicely done Remco, it does look like a tricky area to get right first time out. Ben
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Aft Cant frames 2 & 3 installed using some scrap basswood sized and shaped to fit as temporary spacers at the frame tops. Ben
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Wow Danny, that really is beautiful work on the cap rail and the contrast in woods is awesome. I'll remember this in a few years I hope. Ben
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Sweeeeet Rusty! Coming along fast. ben
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Damn Mobbsie, did you buy the entire catalog? Congrats on the new tools! I'm sure you will put them to good use. Just wanted to say that the snaking is awesome as well. Ben
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You Lucky Devil Mark, I felt the same when my Swiss Pear turned up from Jeff, happy wood dance and had to keep going downstairs to the workshop to look at it, I hope he outlives me as I have many more purchases to make from him! Lol. So where is the sawdust we are all waiting for?? Ben
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HMS Naiad 1797 by albert - FINISHED - 1/48
Trussben replied to albert's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
She looks beautiful Albert, really well done and congrats on reaching that milestone. I hope my Pegasus looks that good when I get there. Ben -
Glad to see you back Paul. Ben
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Jim Byrnes Model Machines
Trussben replied to Mahuna's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Hey Keith, The Byrnes tools are engineered to last, no doubt about that. I think I use the disc sander the most of all my power tools, maybe even more than my scroll saw. Ben -
Thanks Rusty, Mark, Grant and everybody for the likes. Mark - I know the picture looks silly, sometimes I feel like destroying my phone but I wouldn't want to damage my precious Byrnes Sander. Anyway - the stern transoms have all been fitted and pinned in place successfully! I had left the ends of the transoms slightly overlength so I could fair them back to suit the aft cant frame which is what I'm doing now and I have started cutting aft cants 1 thru 7 out of 9" stock. Ben
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Hey Rusty, Will you be going to the NRG conference in Oct? I plan on going for the first time as it's reasonably near to me in St Louis. Ben
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120 guns! Good grief, what scale are you thinking of? Surely not 1:48?? It would be enormous and you'd need a second mortgage to pay Hobbymill! Ben
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Sorry Augie - they look fine as they are! ben
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Thanks for the Likes everybody. Druxey - already been done, after that picture I marked the bolts and trimmed them down to a perfect size, see first pic. I have predrilled all of the transoms before fitting for pinning with bamboo treenails, I used a #65 drill bit and drew bamboo down to #35 hole in the Byrnes plate, this is not to scale but just for reinforcement purposes. Then the 4th transom was installed and pinned, making sure that it lined up with the buildboard markings as well as the heights above the keel bottom as measured from the mylar plan. I am deviating from the TFFM description of installing the transoms which would have the wing transom installed first, I am going to install the 4th first, then the fashion pieces below it, this should give me a solid bottom reference point, then I will install the wing transom which will give me the top point, and then install the transoms in between. Hopefully this works out like I envision. Now on to the fashion pieces, they were cut out of 9" stock oversized slightly by 1/32" outside the lines, then I setup the Byrnes sander to excatly 29.5 degrees using an app on my Iphone, the angles were sanded and then the pieces refined until a perfect fit was achieved under transom 4. I drilled them ready for pinning and then glued in place using a square to make sure it was perpendicular ( the picture doesnt look like its correct but it is! ) you can see how the square matches the correct line on the buildboard. ben.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence Druxey, I shall do my best with the cant frames but I have laid in store some isopropanol anyway. Today I managed to spend a few hours getting the keel bolts installed into the forward rising wood and aft deadwood, it was a little difficult as I don't have a mill but after drilling clearance holes for 6/32 bolts, I then ground down some 6/32 nuts, marked their position and used a small chisel to make the rebates for them. Then I used 5 min epoxy to glue the nuts in place. Corresponding clearance holes were drilled through the buildboard and 2 inch 6/32 machine screws were cut down to correct length and then tightened up. Almost ready to start fixing the transoms permently but one more addition to the buildboard is needed. Ben
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Glad to hear the wood is on the way Mark, time for sawdust! Ben
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Looks great Augie, I did notice that you didn't reverse the scrollwork between the stern windows, but other than that a masterful job of it. Now I can't wait to see your great cabin floor!! Ben
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Just went through my log and found several pics missing due to the server issues. I have reposted them all as of today. ben
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Thanks for the likes. Druxey - I think the several hours I invested in this work will pay off as you say, I just hope my skills when I start the aft/fore cants and hawse pieces can attest to it. Ben
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