KORTES

I had to take my time, the profile is rather difficult to make. After molding the profile I left a small width margin and made the final refinements after gluing it, already in place.

Now, the same procedure with the hornbeam.

I would like to present my attempts in making cap rail taffrail.

I waited a long time to approach it, finding the right technology, finally setting for the plank bending  with further refining.

To start, I had to prepare a pattern, and as I had to bend the lath with a big margin(the original size 1,5:22 mm), I had to make reinforced fixators.   

I have made two samples, refining them while adjusting them in place.

Dear  Michael and Keith I’m very touched by your attention to my work.

Here is the after body of the cap rail.

Cap rail fore body.

Material - black hornbeam, after installing, I fixed it in place with 0,6 mm brass nails.

Now it’s time to make cap rail and waterways. I bent it after putting under steam, using a pattern. After fixation i dried it using a hot air gun - it speeds up the process.

 Thank you very much dear Keith.

Top timbers are installed.

I have constructed the bulwarks.

Your handicraft is truly amazing!

I have refined the taffrail a bit.

Basically I’ve finished nailing.

I finally got around to overhang. It is painted, taffrail is covered with pear tree and black hornbeam. I made it with a small margin, when the enclosures are set I will finish the taffrail.

Thank you very much my dear colleagues.

I have finished sketching, I still have half of the broadside to be filled with treenails.

The hell is waiting to be done. For now I am making sketches.

My greetings, dear Dave.

Treenails of the deck.

Unfortunately, I didn’t master the make using the syringe needle, after a few failed  tries I gave it up… I haven’t had enough patience. I decided to sharpen on the grinder. After some try-outs I opted for the pear tree instead of the toothpicks. D=0,6 mm.

I have finished the covering of the second broadside.

Sketching and putting treenail in place are still to be done. I’m still trying out on samples. As I will have to drill a lot, the manual drill will not be the best solution, I had to work on and upgrade my mini-drill. I bought it on flea-market a long time ago, but couldn’t find any use of it. Yesterday I installed a small switch and now I’m testing it.

19 hours ago, druxey said:

Well done for doing the planking over again! It's a hard decision, but one I'm sure you are glad of now.

Dear druxey,

Yes, you are right, making this decision wasn't easy, but I had an example of the outstanding Masters in front of me  and I really wanted to get even if for a little closer to their quality of work. In the end I was satisfied with the results, even though I had to redo my work many times. Plus I have gotten experience out of it.

19 hours ago, BETAQDAVE said:

    While this method obviously works well for you, I am wondering why you don't just make the frames, fill the spaces solid with blocking, shape the hull and proceed directly to the finish planking rather than adding two additional layers of sub planking onto your solid blocked and shaped hull?  It seems like a lot of additional work to accomplish the same result.  Or is there a method to your madness?  Because as I can say there is no denying the quality of your results.

Dear BETAQDAVE,

It's hard to give a definite answer on the choice of the method of making a hull. I found this method used by Snarlev, and at that moment I thought it was the easiest and the least labor consuming.When working on "Sperwer" I used a different method, and I could say that each one has its own advantages.

18 hours ago, KeithAug said:

Kortes

 

New planking looks good - how did you remove the old planking?

 

 

Dear KeithAug,

The covering was removed by means of heating by a hot air gun, it wasn't hard due to the fact that I used PVA glue.

My best regards, Alexander.

Taking into account experience and mistakes.

After some consideration, I decided to re-do the covering.

Now, some of mistakes…

In order to warn my colleagues, who , just like me , don’t have too much experience, I wanted to highlight my mistake in the process of covering.

More than once in the working process I made sure that THE BEST IS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD. After having completed the covering I  decided , following the example of the Masters, to highlight the joints between the laths a bit. As a result, I haven’t succeeded in it, but I ruined the covering. The reason turned out to be banal – the glue on the plank ends, which wasn’t erased in time.

As a result…

Rubbing strip and two upper belts I decided to make out of black hornbeam. It turned out to be a very technological material.