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Hi Rusty, It's time I join the cheering section and follow your 1/24 scale build. I happen to have the Bomb Section plans in my inventory but every time I look at the size on that beauty in 1/24 I shy away. Maybe watching you put your skills to work and learning will encourage me to change my mind. Need to start thinking about a future project after the Triton Cross Section. The jig and your startup frames are looking good. -
Looking very, very good.
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Wood milling day today and thought you may like to see what I’m thinking about. From the top of the stack down is Walnut, Cherry, Yellowheart, and Boxwood on the bottom. I’m going to cut the walnut for the wale planks in the Top and Butt pattern and then stain in Ebony to see how they will look. Above the wales I’m going to rip some parallel planks out of Yellow Heart to see how I like it. Below the wales will still be in cherry but plan on doing the first three strakes below the wales in the Top and Butt pattern also. Going to follow Grant’s patterns. Learned that Yellow Heart will burn like Cherry if you crowd how much you take off in a pass. So, I take approximately 1/128 of an inch in a pass and run the conveyor in fast speed setting, which seems to work well as with the cherry. Next will be to rip a test plank and apply Danish Oil to see how it takes. In the photo its difficult to see that the Boxwood is much lighter in colour and the Yellow Heart has more yellow. P.S. Earlier I had said Top and Bottom......... dah! Corrected to Top and Butt now. Man, some people....... LOL at myself.
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Grant, Thanks for the sequence. I'll follow your lead. Regard, Paddy
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Hi Bob, Hope all is well. Miss getting to see your grand progress and your participation with the x-section group. Regards
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Grant, Grand, thanks very,very much. Really like the look you achieved. You've stopped my twisting in the wind and I can continue with a plan now. Hope you don't mind but I would like to try and copy what you've done. I think I'll make up some stiff paper test strakes first, check my spacing and get a count on the parallel strakes needed up from the garboard, with the three sets of Top and Butt up to the Wales. Need to mill some strake wood for the Wales now. Thinking possibly of using some walnut I have and staining with Minwax Ebony stain I have and see how that looks. Have been thinking it would be possible to rip the Top and Butt on the Byrnes Table Saw using a taper jig and ripping the strakes in two passes. So, with that thought in mind I ordered Jim's Rip Taper Jig a couple of days ago. I do love that jewel of a saw. Could go on and on about that but then I would be singing to the choir. Thanks again Grant.
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Thanks very much Grant. I would be pleased if you would post them to my log.
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Hi Grant, Like your wood choices. The colours add to your quality work.
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It’s time I started to think about the external planking patterns I would like to try. I’m struggling with some nomenclature here and things like where the diminishing strakes begin and how far down before we are into what’s termed bottom planking. My search arguments don’t seem to be adequate in locating any discussion in the forums. So, I’ll try to ask what I’m thinking about here and see what you all may like to express. Careful with that! If I think in terms of what’s above the wales and below maybe that will get me in the ballpark. Above the wales and maybe the wales too I think I would like to try Top and Butt Planking. If I understand correctly it maybe alright to use Top and Butt on the diminishing strakes (whatever they are) also and use parallel planks for the bottom planking up to the diminishing strakes……... that sound you hear is my head scratching. I’m trying not to get wrapped around the windlass but would like to be in the ballpark. I will depart now with a brown paper bag over my head.
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Antony, Thanks for that. One thing I'm learning for sure with this project that well supports something Russ said some time back. "Always be thinking ahead". If I could go back to the time I was making the keel I would have check the frame at the point of the garboard installation, checked the garboard width and then made an adjustment to the floor futtock curve so the two would have been compatible. The importance of Russ's comment has sure been driven home. Marius, Now don't be so sure about that. My patience has been known to last a whole nanosecond at times. But I do thank you for the thought.
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Happy birthday Bob. A double tot is in order and wishing you many more blessed years.
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Garboard glued and clamped. With my struggle I decided to settle for a 1/48 scale 12 inch wide plank.
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Marius, I agree with what Antony, Pete and Grant have posted. You doing a really top drawer work. She's going to look grand where ever you decided to display her.
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Pete and Bob, Thanks very much for your comments.
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First pre-treenailed planks laid up today. Now I need to quit avoiding the garboard issue and get back to it!
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Thanks for everyone's input. Joss, your point is well taken. As a compromise I'll be doing the treenails to the external planking into the frames and beams I do believe at this point.
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Looks very sharp Bob. Another well done!
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Thanks Bob. I didn't know if it would be possible to use the Dremel except on the floor futtocks and sure wasn't looking forward to all those holes with a pin vice.
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For the internal trennals I’ve decided to mark, drill and install them in each plank before the planks are installed within the hull. One of the things I’ve been concerned about is sanding the treenails once the planks have been installed and possibly damaging adjacent planks in the process. Also, for me at least, drilling the holes after the planks have been installed will be a bit cumbersome. So,those being my primary reasons, I made a template for locating the treenail pattern, punch the hole locations with my needle awl, then drilled the holes with a fence setup on the Dremel drill press. Seems to be working OK and I won’t be getting a twist in my knickers worrying about a buggered plank that is already installed. Whew…… lots of gas in the preceding. LOL.
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Hi Grant, Thanks for taking a look. Working on making the garboard strake a narrower width. Even with that not getting the fit I would like. More fiddling and we'll see how it looks. Have some curved scrapers on the way that should arrive today and maybe a help. If not, well, decided I wanted some on hand anyway. Regards
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Dan, a great log. Please continue to keep us inform about your progress. P.S. Your Scottish Maid is a grand work.
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Today’s effort was laying out the limber strakes for receiving treenails. Went with the suggestion of one inch treenails and pulled the bamboo down to 0.020”. That’s the smallest treenails I’ve pulled to date. The Byrnes Model Machines draw plate is a jewel.
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Grand Bob! Really top drawer work. She's going to look grand where ever you decide to display her. A double tot to the crew. P.S. I think the brackets look very good too.
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Thanks very much for your help Russ.
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Using the Midship Deck Beams Camber plan page that strake next to the keel measures 3/8” wide. If that’s wrong then the measurements I used for the cross section of the limber strake and limber board must be wrong too. I’ll be happy to reduce the width of the garboard strake as you say as it will make the task easy to fit the curl for the concave part of the frame at the keel. Maybe I worded my previous post wrong and should have mentioned the curl in the plank.
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