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Keith Black

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  1. The Panay (PR-5) was launched in 1927. Shouldn't this build be in the 1901 to Present Day build log group? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Panay_(PR-5)
  2. Thank you to everyone for the comments and the likes. Lula's deck is planked. The hull is painted. As I feared the planking doesn't show, oh well. I was in a quandary trying to determine the best approach for building the engine room due to the different elevations. The 1.6 inch piece of wood perpendicular to the deck is the engine room's stern wall's bottom plate. I ran the center decking against the bottom plate forward edge and made the two outside ends flush with the upsweep wheel support decking. There is so much that needs to be replicated in this tiny area, cylinder timbers and pitman arms running from the engine room, pillow blocks, blocks for making the wheel the correct height, rudder post and the wheel., all to be built within a 1.6 inch W x 1.5 inch L x 1.4 inch H space. I deviated from Lula's photo and ran all the decking lengthwise. I get a little more support for the plywood upsweep doing it this way. Thank you to all for following along. Keith
  3. Roel, I like option #2 but the contour of sand inside the bottle sounds interesting. This is a spiffy little project.
  4. I thought you might be leaning toward leaving Cangrada's hull unpainted. That mahogany is so drop dead gorgeous I for one wouldn't be disappointed to see it go unpainted but in the very beginning of this build you left little doubt that unlike Germania, Cangrada's hull would get painted. Paint on dear sir, the memory of the dinning room table's transformation will be enough.
  5. Hey, Tom. Nice to hear from you. So are you planning on operating a FPD? FPD = Frog Piloted Drone Tissue culturing and you thought making treenails was tedious? That has got to be intense. Yes, I'm underway on Lula. In fact once I finish typing this post I'm headed upstairs to commence deck planking.
  6. Gary, if anyone can capture the essence it's you. Gorgeous work as always.
  7. The narrower the width the less shrinkage so 4.5 inches sounds perfect for deck planking.
  8. Thank you. Eric. One thing I failed to mention about creating the upswept is that to get both sides equal I clamped both ends separately to my work table and applied a small amount of pressure at the bow. This set both edges to the same height and it was at this point that I applied CA. Thank you, Tom. Yeah, yours truly normally has to fiddle about trying to come up with a solution. This worked out first crack out of the box, needlessly to say I was pleasantly surprised. I thought the idea would work but then I've thought that on several occasions when it didn't.
  9. Philippe, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  10. Tom, it's been awhile since we heard from you and the frog, I hope all is well.
  11. Thank you to all for the comments and the likes. Made me laugh, Eric. Lula's hull is planked. I've had a nice piece of 3mm plywood in my spares going on seven years. Being lazy I used it in lieu of making deck/guard beams, It all gets covered over so why not? The transom could use a little more sanding. The hull planks are so smooth I don't know if they'll show when painted? Creating the upward sweep was a bit challenging. I glued a two pieces of 0.10 on either side of the wheel opening, split the underside of the plywood forward of the 0.10 added pieces and clamped. The plywood opened but the top layer didn't break, a plan that actually worked first time. Once fully clamped I dabbed CA into the split and when the CA dried the plywood was as strong as it was before being split. Lula's hull next to the pile driver for size comparison. A little more fine tuning and I'll be ready to start planking the deck Thank you to everyone for following along. Keith
  12. It's nice to see correctly scaled planking. Well done, George.
  13. Hal, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  14. Thank you, Keith. Golly that seems like eons ago. Again, thank you, Kurt. Undoubtedly Eric is correct. Now that we've beat that horse to harness it'll be much easier for me to replicate the steering mechanism. A hearty thank you to everyone that joined in on the steering discussion. Because of your input I'm the better for it.
  15. Hey, now. Don't be dragging me to the stocks because of your procrastination. All kidding aside, Bob, it's good to see you doing lots of quality work.
  16. Kurt, thank you for chiming in on Lula's steering. In all your travels have you seen another similar steering arrangement?
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