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The result can clearly be seen, the starboard side planks are lying way flatter around the bow:

I had quite some time in december 2019, so I was alot busy with planking the hull (the years' goal to finish the hull was completed on 31.12.! 😅) As I experienced the clincer effect on portside (although tapering the planks from 5mm to 4mm on bow) I used the very practical method of Chuck Passaro, shown on Youtube (and expecially follow up vid Part 3): Thank you Chuck for this great advise! 🙂 I also built a small jig and bend the planks with an iron accross the broadside after tapering them, then with a plank bender the long side (the easy bending direction). Planks ended up like this:

Hi VTHokiEE. Thanks for the link - I also read quite a lot about the planking. The document you linked I studied about 3 times but still couldn't prevent that clinker effekt. Guess mostly because I cannot split special formed planked out of wider woodstripes.

Log started 🙂 Thansk for your feedback and hints!

Hi fellows Starting my first build log here for the first ship model I am building. I did some smaller projects before such as the SF2 cross section or a "posto combattimento" of Mantua Model - so lets see how the skills learned from there can be applied to a 'real' ship now 🙂 When I start this blog, I am already building the SF2 since some months (I progress slowly as there ist only time to work on the hobby occasionally during the week and on weekends...), so the blog starts with planking the hull. Unfortunately its the old kit with single hull planking, at the moment I am struggling at the bow with bringing the planks flat down to the bulkheads. As you can see on the pictures below, especially in the bulhead 2, the planks are not lying flat and a clinker effekt has already developed on the bow. 🙄 Until now I prebent the planks with a planking bender and then tapered them at the ends and trying to fit them as best possible into the next position. The first 5 planks going fully to front of the bow are of normal width 5mm each. After these 5 planks I calculated 3 bands, each containing 6 planks, full width of them at bulheads 4/5/6. At bow and stern the planks are tapered to 4 mm each. But already now the 5th plank of 1st band on portiside is standing off the bulkhead 1 and 2 and the 6th plank is not possible to fit nicely, even with clamps and pins. As I read and know that there should be no force used, there has to be another way to do this properly... Do you have probably and hints how I get that planks lying smoother? And avoiding or at least reducing that clinker effect? I only have 5mm planks, so I cannot spile a plank out of a wider peace of mahagoni. Maximum I could order is 2x7mm... Also I am wondering how wide the garboard pank should be and how far forward that should go to the front. As Bulkheads 1 and 2 are very much shorter than the others (the first is alrady almost full with the frist band...), I am wondering how many of the planks really go straight forward to the bow and how much of the space should be taken by the garboard plank. Let me know if you have and good hints for the current 'battle' I'd be happy to learn from your experience 🙂 regards from Basel Switzerland André 1

Hi guys. Thanks for your welcoming. I will work on the ship this evening and do some photos of current status so a a build log can be set up, most probably tomorrow.

Hi Folks Just a quick hello and introduction from my side: Living in Basel Switzerland, male 36y and just building my first full shipmodel - the San Francisco II of Artesania Latina. Its the old kit with single hull planking, right now I'm struggling with planking the bow neatly, clinker effect has already shown up. So probably I will bother you with some questions regarding that within the next days... (yepp I already read alot and studied your great planking tutorals - anyhow, the 2mm thick walnut stips dont want to be bent neatly flat onto all the bulkheads while simltaneously make a big arch around the apple like bow :-(...). Previously build the San Francisco Cross Section of AL and the "Posto Combattimento" of Mantua Model. So some exeperience available but not with planking a round bow. Looking forward to your hints and help With kind regards from Basel André