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Kees, 

The rudder looks great, love the details as well. 

Marcus 

4 hours ago, andante said:

http://www.penterbak.nl

 

I wonder if you have seen the impressive VideoDrone clip on Vimeo? Beautiful.

https://vimeo.com/64956881

I know the website of penterbak. 

That is a cool video of windmills. Looks like a drone was used to get the images at different heights. 

Thank you andante. 

Marcus 

Went to several big box stores to get supplies. Plywood and dowels in various thicknesses and sizes, copper tubing, tile glue and exterior glue, box of wood screws and at the same time got wood for the display case for the Utrecht. 

Monday I'll start the main structure and go from there. 

Marcus 

4 hours ago, andante said:

Hollandse molen, wow! Reminds me of a small snuffmill model I made some time ago. Used drawings from the old kit by Authentic Shipmodels Amsterdam and built it completely from alder. Found the original kit in Amsterdam 40 years ago. It is a "werkend" model - all wheels are running! The scale is 1 : 50.

 

Have a lovely weekend!

I remember that one. I still have the catalog it is advertised in. Always wanted to get that. 

Alder is a good species of wood to make it with. 

Laid out the main pieces of wood on the drawing for the cap (walnut, redwood, poplar, maple & cherry) . For 'cog', that would be number 22 through 28.

So many parts go in to the cap. 

Marcus 

Wheel is completed. Needs to be primed and painted. The disk in the middle willi cadmium dark red, the spokes green, the ends which are the handles will be white. 

The steps have been glued together. Them primed and painted black. 

Marcus 

Cut out all the pieces in the above picture and found some more wood (ash, redwood and oak) for more pieces. 

Put together the wheel which is made from plywood for the ring, walnut for the spokes  and maple for some smaller parts. This will all be primed and painted. 

Marcus 

Thank you Backer. 

Marcus 

This mill is going to be made of lots of different wood. This coming weekend I am purchasing the marine plywood.  regular plywood, square and round dowels, copper & aluminum tubing, other metal items, outdoor glue, tile glue for the thatch. I have glued some of the templates on the various pieces of wood. 

For the kruipalen (English ?)  which are thick wooden pieces I am using maple pen blank pieces. Person at the woodworkers club does pen turning and he gave me box full of them. They are 1" x 1" x 6". Just right. 

Marcus 

I am waiting for a dry day so I can start sanding her. It has been drizzling on and off. So instead of the boat I've been working on the mill 

Marcus 

Cool, and I love the basket, nicely detailed. 

Marcus 

Since I am not going to get the maritime plywood this weekend (Easter weekend) I made the hooks and eyelets so shutters can go on the window frames. I used 1 mm thick brass wire. The shutter design look so Dutch. 

The doors have little knobs on them. 

Also been going through my stash of hardwood picking out pieces for the various parts of the cap. So many odd sizes needed. The cap has about 20 pieces total 

Marcus 

Looks good. 

Marcus 

# Carl, thanks for the suggestion. 

# Jan, thank you for the elaborate explanation. That picture in the Rijks is also in the book. I will ask the questions as you are answering them as I built. The plans itself is an interpretation of a contract in Witsen's book and Ab mentions the pages as well.

Ab has translated this book in English and it is more than $100.00. So I have to save some money and need to get this. 

Marcus 

Cog, those are some cool pictures, thank you. 

This thread is becoming very interesting with various pictures of different windmills and the parts that make one. 

I appreciate all the input from everyone. I learn something every time 

Again, thanks. 

Marcus 

Carl, there is always room and better late than never. The Dutch community is small but very active. 

I have wanted to do the Boyer since last year so I planned for it and then my wife wanted me to do the mill so I thought I can do both. Like I said before, both will be slow as I also have the garden and that includes the food. I am retired and that helps. It is not all play (boat and mill), there is house work and errands, etc. 

I thought it rather odd that when I saw this book and plans figuring it would sell better in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe and not here. Oh well. 

The Boyer is a challenge and the mast at the stern is held by a heavy board, it does not go into the hull.  I would think with a good Dutch wind it would break off. The pointy stern is going to be fun, sort of.  It is a bummer that there isn't more information on this boat. If it is worth to be one of the 17th century Dutch merchant ships you would think there is more information on this boat. 

Marcus 

7 hours ago, cog said:

P.s. Any native English speaker: I thought it's the sails of the mill, not the vaines ... please correcty me if I'm wrong

# Cog: In de van Dale (dictionary)  

wiek (de) 0.1 [molenwiek]  sail, vane -> wing, sweep. 

wiekslag: 0.1 wing-beat / -stroke. 

I copied exactly out of the dictionary. 

# Jan, nice windmill.

Marcus 

Glued it all together and made a template of the height of the railing and little cut outs that will tell me the height of the deck. 

Next I need to sand the form and also use a dremel with a carving wheel to remove the excess wood as the deck is a bit too high. 

The bow is similar to a yacht, which is bluff, the stern is pointed at the end and haven't figured out how I am going to create this so the rudder and rudder post fit accordingly. 

Compared to the Utrecht,  which had 13 sheets of plans the Boyer has 3. So for me as a beginner scratch builder their is a lot of unknowns. The Utrecht had a sheet with the outline of the deck only. The Boyer does not have that so I guess I need to look at the top view of the deck plan that has all the deck items on it and look at the outer edge of the boat. 

In the end I will figure it out. 

Also, very little information of these boats on the Net or books. 

Marcus 

Thanks Carl. Nice and rough. 

Thanks reklein, that made me 

Painted the shutters by hand. Not exactly straight lines but then it does not have to be.

Colors: Van Dyk green, titanium white and dark cadmium red.

As long as the vanes are perfect otherwise they won't turn properly. The directions say that this is the most important thing about building a mill. 

Marcus 

# Piet, thanks for the info on lights and you are correct about the interest I have generated with the mill built.

We need a category on building windmills in the Scratch Building heading. Related to ship building would be a saw miill. The Dutch invented that to speed up ship building and they invented warehousing. Different tradesmen would make all the parts for building a ship and store it in the warehouse. Then when a contract was signed for a ship, the shipwright would go to the warehouse and pick up the pieces. Dutch ships were build in half the time compared to the Brits. (sorry, got off track) 

Excellent pen and ink drawing, such detail. 

# Jan, I think I will try that. It is cheap and readily available.

Most versions of windmills around here is the one I am building. You can always tell if a person of Dutch heritage lives in a house by the windmill in the front yard and kissing boy and girl statues in traditional Dutch clothing.  

Marcus 

Painted the first coat with acrylics. Van Dyk green and the inside raw sienna which is a light brown. I opted for a lighter color instead of black. 

Due to the abundance of walnut in my possession, I made the shutters from that wood. Also,  it is 4 mm thick instead of 3 mm, which it calls for 

The mill will have a lot of hardwood incorporated. The plans call for plenty but I am doing more because I have lots (left overs from the woodworkers club). 

Marcus  

Welcome Ondras71. 

Glued everything together and she is in a clamp letting her dry overnight. 

Marcus 

So far it looks promising. Looking back at the pictures of the Rocket, she sure looks sleek. I would have loved to see them outrun a train. That must have been a sight to see. 

Marcus 

Permission granted, Patrick. 

Marcus 

# thibaultron: That is a good idea. Didnt even think of dollhouse stuff. 

# Backer & Cog, thanks for the definition and links. 

Windows, doors and shutters have been primed. I used the same exterior primer I used on my solar greenhouse 10 years ago and it is still standing. It seals the wood, mold and mildew resistant and inhibits rust (just what I need for wood :-) ). 

Marcus 

Hi Jack, 

I want a front seat for this built. This is awesome and looking forward to its progress. 

Marcus