Steve Harvath
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I have finished planking the port side.
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I have now finished planking the starboard side. I am sure this side will be the non-display side. It was a real learning experience and I think I can do much better on the port side. Finding the right clamps and places to clamp was hard on some of the planks.
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I am finally back to the build of the Albert Baldwin. After a cross country move and discouraging false starts on planking. I have been following the tutorials and think I am making progress. I steamed the bow end of the first plank and it seems to fit well.
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After looking at the tutorials I decided I had better fill in the fore and aft sets of bulkheads to create good surfaces for bonding the more radically curved hull planks. It was kind of labor intensive as it required a lot of fitting and sanding.
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I built a sort of strut system to support the transom. Still needs a lot of fairing or truing up.
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Here are some progress pictures -- false starts and all. I still have to correct and true up some of the bulkheads. How should I attach the transom?
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I mounted the stem on a thin Basswood sheet along with a 1/4" bass wood false keel to keep things aligned.
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Chris, Stockton CA is still interesting. I love having a deep water port with several bulk carriers a week and a purpose built ship that just carries super long lengths of railroad rail. I traced the stem shape onto some vellum. I used white carpenter's glue to glue it to a 1/4 thick piece of Basswood. Coping saw, sandpaper and knife were used to carve it out.
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I have decided to build a waterline model of the granite sloop Albert Baldwin ca. 1890. It will fit in my harbor scene of the same period. The other craft and the wharf and railroad transfer bridge in the diorama are built to 1 inch equals 48 inch scale. I have the plans which are conveniently 1/4 inch to the foot scale. These are from 1930 by Howard Chapelle. I am planning on challenging myself and build it plank on bulkhead.
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Very nice. I love that you are modeling a kind of watercraft would never have been in preservation. Dusty, everyday working craft that are hauled around a harbor. Contemporary commentators paid little attention to them because they were just there doing their jobs on the waterfront. I wonder if those grain barges came from the midwest via the Erie canal.
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The instructions say to paint it to the builder's fancy. So I painted it red.
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The seats are in. They are made of 1/32 basswood. I made them longer than the width of the boat so that they would serve to spread out the sides in a graceful way. The bamboo sides bent quite easily. Now I need to add some small side boards for the oar locks and make some oars.
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I glued the floor on. I added some pieces where the sides and bottom meet so the glue bond would be better. I have been able to thin these back a bit after the glued dried so they are less obvious.
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I started gluing and clamping the planks to the stem and stern
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Following the instructions I carved a stem out of basswood and notched it to receive the side planks. The instructions for the boat have the builder attach three foot wide temporary braces at the center of the sides. These will define the shape of the boat when the sides are bent in to the stem and stern. I clamped them in place temporarily while I attach the stem and stern pieces.
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