garyshipwright

Looks outstanding Bitao. Really enjoy looking in on your build and help's me to work harder on my build, to do better on her construction

Looks outstanding Bitao. Really enjoy looking in on your build and help's me to work harder on my build, to do better on her construction

Looks outstanding Bitao. Really enjoy looking in on your build and help's me to work harder on my build, to do better on her construction

Moving on...
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

Boy do you have you work cut out for you with all those books. Only kidding and a big welcome to you and your misses. Didn't know what I was going to do about my book addiction. Once again  a big welcome.  Gary

Boy do you have you work cut out for you with all those books. Only kidding and a big welcome to you and your misses. Didn't know what I was going to do about my book addiction. Once again  a big welcome.  Gary

Boy do you have you work cut out for you with all those books. Only kidding and a big welcome to you and your misses. Didn't know what I was going to do about my book addiction. Once again  a big welcome.  Gary

Boy do you have you work cut out for you with all those books. Only kidding and a big welcome to you and your misses. Didn't know what I was going to do about my book addiction. Once again  a big welcome.  Gary

We're working on it! Can't go into details right now, but I am hopeful for some positive developments soon. Will keep you posted! (And Grant will be very involved)

Hi Clay. Well good sir my thought process on the framing  was I used butt's to hold the parts of the frame together that is shown on page 18 in Goodwin's book. Being a expert , thank you for that, but call my self more of a student who will never finish school.  When i started building my frames I did use chocks to hold the parts together but being that you make  about  a 130 frames it takes awhile  which is why I used the butt and dowel that hold's those parts together. Not as time consuming and once the planks  are installed on the outside and inside you can't see the chocks but if I had to do it again I would have installed the chocks, but today that is just a bit of hind sight on my part. Installing the chocks does take a while and after three years of framing figure chocks would have added 2 years to their building, for me anyway. Chock's would be more accurate doing our time frame. Now the sister frames  would have been called bends and it seems that He shows this on page 14,16 and 18. What they usually did, as far as I can tell in Alfred's/Warrior time frame,  would be to to build one bend( two frames put together as one) two single filling frames that did not touch each other and then another bend. Some where around the dead flat there was a changing of the floors so at that place you would have a floor, a first futtock and then another floor.  What they did is at the forward part of the hull the floors would be on forward side and aft the would be on the aft side. I added  a photo of Alfred's framing plan and my framing ,  they are about as close as I can get them. If you look at station 1 and the dead flat you will see the switching of the floor. How you can tell is that there is three filling frames between the two bend's and usually you only had two filler's.  Now the bend's didn't touch as the went up but was pushed apart with blocks of wood , so the upper parts of the frame's could make up the side of the gun port. Those parts of the frame were bolted together were the blocks were installed . I colored those blocks black and shows that this was a station and the filling frames did not have those blocks. Hope this makes sense Clay. Gary

Thanks Guys. It has taken me a few years, but would you believe me if I told you the shop is alive. I know, sounds kind of dumb, but it has been changing since 2007 when we moved in. I have a couple of  photo's showing the way it looked when we moved in  compared to how it looks today. Looking at others workshop's and lay out helped me come up with the best lay out. The one thing that has really made the shop a nice place to work is when I added on the  the 16' x 15' foot extenson. Am planning on adding internet and a computer to the back room, so I don't have to run in to the house when ever I need to look for some thing on the internet. Thanks again guys and happy New Year. Gary

Thank you popash42 hope that you enjoyed it. Seems am a little slow at the moment but hope I will be picking up the pace soon. Gary

Hello Gentlemen !

Continuation of the work with the manufacture of a small tool that will make my job easier for what is to come ...

The photos speak for themselves :


























I had to help this tool with pliers : the nails tended to escape ! But it works and will help me.

See you another time ...

Patrick

Good morning all,

Few advances on the model ... Here are just a few photos to show the current stage.
See you later for the rest of the adventure.

Patrick
 
 

Hello,
Thanks to all for the interest and the nice comments.

To finish the lower masts I have to make the iron bands.
This I made from strips of brass sheet 0.3 mm. To attach the frontfishes there are two-piece hoops.

Well, I will certainly try harder. Try to work no more than five hours a day. . .

Good evening, everyone. Thanks for the PEP talk. Due to the number of hand-made windows, the small size of the parts (0.75 mm in side length) and the constant change of the interface angle, resulting in slow progress, the quality of partial completion is not good. Most of the wood lines are planed by hand and a few by milling. To avoid the edges, apply a small amount of wood wax oil to the surface. The construction of the interior of the ship will continue after the stern rudder is installed.
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Hello and thank you all,
today I made only some small repairs and give the rails a layer of clear lacquer. 
 

 

Thank you popash42 hope that you enjoyed it. Seems am a little slow at the moment but hope I will be picking up the pace soon. Gary

Thank you popash42 hope that you enjoyed it. Seems am a little slow at the moment but hope I will be picking up the pace soon. Gary

Thank you popash42 hope that you enjoyed it. Seems am a little slow at the moment but hope I will be picking up the pace soon. Gary

Thanks Hubac and druxey, missed you guys to. 

Hi Clay. Well good sir my thought process on the framing  was I used butt's to hold the parts of the frame together that is shown on page 18 in Goodwin's book. Being a expert , thank you for that, but call my self more of a student who will never finish school.  When i started building my frames I did use chocks to hold the parts together but being that you make  about  a 130 frames it takes awhile  which is why I used the butt and dowel that hold's those parts together. Not as time consuming and once the planks  are installed on the outside and inside you can't see the chocks but if I had to do it again I would have installed the chocks, but today that is just a bit of hind sight on my part. Installing the chocks does take a while and after three years of framing figure chocks would have added 2 years to their building, for me anyway. Chock's would be more accurate doing our time frame. Now the sister frames  would have been called bends and it seems that He shows this on page 14,16 and 18. What they usually did, as far as I can tell in Alfred's/Warrior time frame,  would be to to build one bend( two frames put together as one) two single filling frames that did not touch each other and then another bend. Some where around the dead flat there was a changing of the floors so at that place you would have a floor, a first futtock and then another floor.  What they did is at the forward part of the hull the floors would be on forward side and aft the would be on the aft side. I added  a photo of Alfred's framing plan and my framing ,  they are about as close as I can get them. If you look at station 1 and the dead flat you will see the switching of the floor. How you can tell is that there is three filling frames between the two bend's and usually you only had two filler's.  Now the bend's didn't touch as the went up but was pushed apart with blocks of wood , so the upper parts of the frame's could make up the side of the gun port. Those parts of the frame were bolted together were the blocks were installed . I colored those blocks black and shows that this was a station and the filling frames did not have those blocks. Hope this makes sense Clay. Gary

Thanks Hubac and druxey, missed you guys to. 

Hi Mark. Your set up looks very very good and may have to redo the set up for the other tools like the disk sander and thickness sander. My 
Byrnes Prec saw are on a roll around tool stand that has a vacuum in side of it. I did buy a  couple of blast gates for the mill and lathe but didn't install them. I have one of those on-off- switch  and may get another one for those tools. The one I have is on the full size drill press and the vacuum. I do have a switch above the bench that turns on the vacuum but having the hose loose I can use it to help keep the bench clean when the machines are not using it.    Hi Clay. In your first photo it shows that stanchen but I have not come across one in our ships manger time frame. As far as which hole they used, I don't think it matter's and was left up to the person in charge and you being the person in charge is left up to you. Now I saw that photo from  Romero and there is a couple of things that stick out like a sore thumb and both do not fit our time frame for Warror or Alfred. The rollers that he shows didn't come in to use till the 1800 I believe. I take a look and see if I can find where I read this. I looked for them but could never find any thing about them,  till our ships time which is probably why Hahn left them out. The only answer I can give about the messenger going around the foremast in the manger was they crew helped it. Now on the other hand, they may of done something like the rollers in Alfred/Warror time frame but nothing I can find.   If you find a answer good sir would very much enjoy the answer. I believe he didn't give a source was because he was the source and probably used McGowan's drawing of the  Victory  which does  show them but once again they would be out of place in ours. Another set of items that you see in Romero  drawing is a set of standards that look like knees up against the wall, which there should only be one and that one would be in the center up against the stem. Another item that is missing is the Hawse hook that set below the hawse holes. This would be on the Alfred/Warrior but not on the Montague. I will  put a photo or two, one of Alfred and one of Montague and you will see the difference. If Romero had looked in to a couple of contracts during that time he would of found that they only had one at the bow helping strengthing the stem. He could of used Steel of 1805 could also have came in handy to help him. O well live and learn.