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Welcome and greetings from Boston, USA. Good luck with your projects and enjoy your journey. Always around if you have a question. -Rich
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Installing the Wales Installing Wales is difficult because they need to be precisely positioned so both sides mirror each other. Here is a way to do it simply. Start with a full length plank, cut it to fit along the Stem Lost. A tool like this can be used to form the curve, it’s quicker and saves time compared to soaking. Make up a set of blocks, here I use 4 x 4 mm Plastrut. Next position the Wale in the exact location and secure with cloths pins, and take a break. Come back and make sure everything us right. Then install the blocks along the Wale edge with a dab of CA. Now the Wale can be removed, glue applied, reinstalled to the exact position, and clamped. After the glue dries, use a pair of pliers, and snap off the blocks.
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Shaping the Area Aft of Bearding Line Here the task is to taper, or thin, the First Planking from the Bearding Line aft to the Stern Post, so the top if the Second Planking is close to flush with the Stern Post and Keel. First made a template of the Bearding Line off the plan with Velum and transferred the Bearding Line to the model. The tools for doing the work: large and small gouges, triangular and round files, and a pattern file - with cutting edges and perpendicular safe edges. Making large gouge cuts. Finer cuts were made with the smaller gouge. Using a piece of Hardwood Second Planking as a Scraper to remove the chips, along with the pattern file. And working along the Keep and Stern Post.
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Counter Next was installing the counter. Soaked the plywood counter for a half hour, the piece was not very pliable so used a jig. Jig is plywood with a v shaped notch, bar - from a PE bending kit, and a clamp. Nice curve. Counter Installed
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HM Badger Log begins after first planking install. Small seam gaps were filled with Titebond. A few larger triangular openings were filled with Minwax Wood Filler - Natural Color, Hull was first worked with a coarse wood file, then finer files, and finally a light sanding with 100 grit.
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P.S. highly recommend the sliding table for the Byrnes saw.
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Hello Y.T., Great question. A light pass with 220 sandpaper will remove any tool or saw blade marks. The thickness sander is used to make dimensional changes. For example reduce the thickness of a sheet from 3/64” to 1/32”, then cut individual planks from that sheet on the table saw. Or say you have 1/4” x 1/4” square stock, the thickness sander could be used to take off 1/16” on one face to make the stock 1/4” x 3/16” - the table saw could also do this job. I do not have a thickness sander in my shop.
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Watch plenty of Youtube videos on how to use a table saw. Same principles apply to the Bynes saw. Bynes saw is high quality, that being said any machine may or will leave saw marks that need to be removed. Good luck.
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Hi, Working on the Badger now. Yes, have not noticed where, if at all, the instruction say when to remove the gunport pattern former. I removed it after the first layer of planking. -Rich
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HMS Badger: Cutting Bearding Area in First Planking
First made a template from the plan with Velum.
Tools for the Work
Large and Small Gouges, Round and Square Files, Pattern File - it has cutting edges and perpendicular safe edges.
Large gouge used to make chips.
And smaller chips back towards the bearding line.
Hardwood plank makes a great scraping tool.
Pattern file to work along the keel and stern post.
The plank edge should fit flush along the keel and stern post.
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HMS Badger: Counter Forming and Installation
Usually I’d soak and form with my fingers.
This time realized I needed some help with some sort of jig. Looked around the shop and found a PE rolling bar, and a jig used to hold dowels when drilling holes.
Piece in the Jig and Clamping
Done
Installed on the Ship
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Let’s get underway! Awesome model. Thank you for posting….
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