oldmate

Sweet build. Shows off your talent and what can be achieved when coupling those talents with great plans quality materials. My hat's off to you OH! Wait I lost my hat in a storm!😑

Ric

The last thing I would say is the it is "worthless and gutless" I have had mine for years and it has plenty of power. It suer is not a Byrnes saw but if it could be fine tuned a bit more I would be happier. You do not mention the species or thickness of the wood you are cutting. Remember these Dermel saws are not only "old", but many have been miss used and poorly stored. Clean it up, align everything and by all means get a new blade. It just might be the original blade.

Good luck

Ric

I will follow your build

Leo, I started my cutty by Sergal a couple of years ago and have set it aside. It is an enormous ship and so much fun to build. I am 75 (soon to be 76) and I wonder if I have the years left to finish it. I have much of the deck furniture finished and I suppose I should get back to it.  like you I am not sure about the brass pieces.

Happy building 

Ric 

Welcome to the forum. I am of the belief to leave them fo the reasons mentioned by allanyed above

Ric

Yes I have put this kit on the shelf for far too long. Guess I should think about it again.

I just have to ask, Why make your own rope when there are so many sources available out there. Just seems to me that the time spent could be better spent on the model But that's just me I suppose

Ric

Proxxon all the way! You are not limited in length as it is a through the heaad stock by using collets. Love mine for any small turnings.

Ric

Great work John. Beautifully done. I am still working on my Cheerful and very behind on my log. I stay home all of the time except Dr's appointments and yet I contracted the Covid crap. After getting from the hospital. I have not felt like doing anything. Just no energy. They say it will pass but could fool me.When it does, I will get back her.

In any case nice work

Ric

Yes, so far it look great. I too have found some errors as far Sergal kits are concerned and what is represented as proper for the period of the ship, That dose not mean that the carronades can not be replaced, I have this kit as well waiting for it's turn. I plan to make time to research it ship before I start the build.

Great start I I hope to follow you progress if yo don't mind

Ric

I am working on it as I type this. Last weekend I purchased 11 Kits brand new in the boxes mostly from Mantau Victory, constitution, rattlesnake,Constitution cross section,President, Bluenose II to name a few. Bought them for a song. I don't know if I will live long enough to build them or any of the others I have started. But either way I am back at it. And yes, I have had several challenges with the Cheerful but it's coming along.

Ric

Sweet, I've been delayed for some time now on my cheerful build. However, seeing this post inspires me to get back at it. Thanks

I have not posted for awhile but I have been working on my Cheerful. I have been ill again as iI have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and the treatments have been …. well i should say , not great. But when i have better days I continue to work on the ship. Rather than take the time to post I have decided to just build. I will try to post my progress thus far.

You know, now that I approach the small parts I realize how stressful it becomes to build them properly spending hours to assemble the deck furniture, cannon parts, mast, bow sprit and all the associated parts and pieces. Difficult but not impossible. It just takes time. here are some pictures of what I have been working on.

Great build. I have the kit finished to the point of installing the frames. I only hope to complete it as well as you have. It's waiting me to finish Chuck's Cheerful. Hope to use your build log to guide me somewhat. My congrats to you

So I have worked on the deck furniture especially the windlass. (that was fun!) and they are dry fitted here. As you can see I have the deck boards completed as well. 

I' happy with that so far.

After some touch up and refinement It'll do.

I also have the bow sprit on it's way as are most of the cannon carriages

Additionally I have completed some of the fittings as well. I will try to be more timely with my posts. On to more building

Ric

I did not realize that it has been so long since I posted on this build. I have been steadily working on the ship but due to some health issues I have not accomplished as much as I would like to. I will post some pictures as soon as the battery in my camera charges. 

Ric

Sweet! I don't know how I missed this, Your work is great I followed your Morgan mostly after you finished it. I have the CW Morgan but haven't started it until I finish my Cheerful build. Keep up the great work!

Ric

Ya i spent a long time waxing the parts (before assembling) anything.    if you are doing it for a nice finish don't bother. I does nothing in that regard just soaks in. I did it for protection from absorbing moisture and glue. I think it helps. Oh, be careful not to wax where the glue needs to go

Ric

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I got mine yesterday. I knew that was on backorder 5 weeks ago. I am working on assembling just now and using this blog to guide me. Thanks for posting it. I have spent the last 1 and a half hour waxing all the pieces. on to glueing the assembling the parts. 

Ric

Chuck you are one clever guy

Thanks again for the kind words, Here some shots of my modified solution to add a strake. I think it will do. I know that I must work more closely with the plans and it is amazing that a small mistake earlier in the construction will cause such an error

Thanks to all

Ric

Thank You all for the kind words. 

Thanks Chuck I can see that now and I appreciate your support. I think I will opt for the additional strake. Already working them.  You a always there for many.

So here I am AGAIN with a severe error.  My cap rail at the stern will not match up with the transom top rail. I am 3/8 of an inch off. I sen chuck an email for help and as always he got back to me nearly immediately suggesting I look closely at the plans for the transom.  I think I see the problem.... I hope. It is gonna involve more tear out and rebuild the transom. 

So on I went. Time for the false deck

Then paint time for paint on the inner bulkheads. 

A shot of the waterways in place

 And a final shot of the touched up and partially completed Cheerful. I am far from done but on I go. There is hardly a day goes buy that I done work on this ship. Time to order some stuff from Chuck.

So it has been quite sometime since I posted any progress on this build. That doesn't mean that I have not been working on the build. I guess I would rather put the time into building the Cheerful. 

I just wish I had paid a bit more attention to the plans when I measure the length of the planks. as a result I have way to many joints out of place and they wonder too much. There was also some areas that were just not right so... I proceeded to remove some sections. Not easy to do! The more I removed the worse it got

Heres what I started with....

Heres how bad it got...

And more...

But it got much better