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5 hours ago, wefalck said:

Oh, I forgot, yes they got the wood from there. The Lebanon cedar still is a pretty knotty wood ... and there is a chicken-and-egg-problem: you first to have ships to import the wood ...

You are righ🤔t 

thanks to you for following this log

Thaks!!!  Welcome. The wood came from Lebanon. Cedar to be more precise

It has been a really fun project to work on

thank again

Hugging Truss!!!!!!

15 m of thread 0.15 mm diameter. Stressed and organized

Fixed and tied...

Thanks again for watching and following this log. I’m really enjoying this model

8 hours ago, BANYAN said:

Looks great.  You must be close to using more twine than wood in this model soon

 

cheers

 

Pat

Yes.  You are right. I am in the process installing the hugging-truss. Looooong process a lot of thread. I would say 12 m aprox 0.15mm thread. Looking for the right appearance with the right tension

To have an overview how the ship is looking.....

and this video.....

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Here I am again......

I’ve been working In finishing the bow, hugging-truss, And gunwale......

The Hugging-truss has a kind o f belt and a traversed pole that in the future will “receive” all those thin threads.  Instead to do it in brass and then lined with thread I went just using 4  0.8 mm thread, stick them with ciano in both faces.....

Then I lined, creating a “belt” effect been able to keep the “eyes” in both sides to install the poles...

On 9/9/2020 at 4:13 AM, Louie da fly said:

 

just to give you an idea about the mast

Kris

this is just unique. Wonderful!!!  The quality of your research and the time you have invested in the drawings are just magnificent. 
 

i wish if you don’t mind we can use your material to construct our Viking

I’m here to see next steps

On 9/10/2020 at 4:44 AM, liteflight said:

Not many people can say truthfully that they knitted a sea-going ship.

Fascinating research and a very inventive way of presenting the sewing "through" the planks

I have been interested in sewn ships since reading a National Geographic magazine where Toim Severin reproduced Sinbad's dhow and sailed it to replicate the wanderings (I was disappointed they didn't see or bring back a roc, though)

 

I have just found while researching Viking ships that the Sami use sewn boats, then and now, as they had little access to metal

Thanks for your kind words. Yes the Vikings also had developed some kind of construction system similar to Egyptians one. They had A mixture between sewing and metal really interesting

i have the Viking in my next projects 

Thanks again. Yes there is still some work to do. I would say 20-25% related with ths ship itself 

I’m also thinking in some kind of “diorama” at the end..... let’s see

Thanks to you all

yes!!!! A lot of time bit it worth it

George

your appreciations are just right.  Your wood working is just perfect. It is looking really good

waiting for next posts

Also.... we finished the decks.....

Take a look of this video

This weekend we were working in finishing the hull sewing.....

Your work with wood is really impeccable!!!

I just re assembled all the pieces....  “provisional”.

Once i finished the hull.... this is how it looks like..... and I feel really happy with.....

I’m here to see the next steps. I can not wait to see the construction process 😀

good job!!!

I really don’t know  if I deserve all your kind words. Thanks a lot

George!!!!

Thanks a lot for your kind words.....

Let’s see the progresses ......

First, I spent some time studying how the “stays” are going to be fixed in the hull......in some of the pictures and documents i found something like this....

So not having something else ..... I decided to “install” a couple of these artifacts....

And now... it is time to start with the external hull....

Let’s see some pictures of the interior....

Thanks for all those “likes” and kind words

Pinterest. There you will find a ton of those pictures

https://pin.it/6wKpgJm

https://pin.it/519WOc6

I’m just want to be as much attached to a “real” thing. Since we have to be careful with the “appearance” in the scale we work. 
 

your investigation about vikings really surprise me. Thanks for sharing 

Here one more.....

That is what I meant!!!! In the construction process....

I’ve been looking around different ways and still can not see a final solution 

ready to hear ideas..