Rock_From_Korea

2nd and 3rd planks fixed into place.

First plank laid. The tree nail assisted planking does help fix the planks in place. At the end of the day, these tree nails were used to fix the planks in real ships anyway.

Hi All, After the basic skeletal work, the planking work begins. I decided to use filler mainly in the bow and stern areas and not fill in the middle section. This time I am trying something a little different. I tried to fasten some of the plank sections with tree nails as an assisting medium during planking and it seemed to be quite helpful. The tree nail has a size (1mm) that does not fit the scale (30-40% larger than the scale ), but it is the thinnest material I can come up with at the moment. So, I will just go ahead and see how it looks like for the prototype. The upper part of the waterline boundary wale is only going to be planked only with 1st planking, so I started from this area and tried the tree nail assisted planking. Preliminary testing of the tree nails show that they definitely look bigger than they should. But, I will need to try this on my prototype as it is my only option at the moment. I will continue looking for a smaller diameter solution. I used end of the tooth picks (dyed) as tree nails.

Various hidden deck bases are finished and the overall shape so far looks as below.

Bowsprit installment test, and the testing of overall mast instalments.

Foremast laying platform and test of installing foremast.

Hi All, Work in the shipyard is progressing slowly as this is my first scratch build project and also I am effectively building 2 ships at the same time. There are just a lot of things to consider and think about on this scratch build project. I thought I had planned much in advance, but as I progress it seems that there were just a lot more aspects that I did not consider before beginning my first scratch project. Nonetheless, this project is making me consider a lot more areas compared to when building a kit model and I think I am learning a lot along the way. Also, the start of GH2 is helping much in terms of trying different methods from GH1, modifying and maybe enhancing some designs here and there and applying to GH2 right away to see the effects and etc. The GH1 progress pictures including more structure strengthening, various deck base laying, building the masts slots and platforms are included below. Aftcastle structure strengthening, mizzen mast platform.

Made some room and preparations for the whipstaff installations in the stern area.

Back to Golden Hind prototype - worked on strengthening the structure of main deck and forecastle area. Also, tested fitting the decks into the frames. The 3.5 mm wood panels saved from the wood working shop are utilized for decks.

Hi All, It's been a while since my last update. I managed to find a wood working shop near Seoul and had the cypress cut cleanly into different sizes and shapes. Unfortunately, this shop was also unable to cut wider (more than 15 cm) panels and I had to be satisfied with 8 cm wide panels which were cut into 6mm thick panels as well as 2mm strips, 1cm x 1cm (for mast) and etc. In the wood work shop I found 3.5mm small wood panels (waiting to be burnt for fuel) that could potentially be used as bulkheads when laminated. I could not resist the temptation of testing these new materials for my 2nd Golden Hind (earmarked as present for one of my dear friends) and immediately started the building of basic frames for GH2. I am quite satisfied with the results and decided to use these materials for my subsequent Golden Hinds. I also decided to work on GH2 in tandem with my Golden Hind prototype as there are quite a few different methods, styles and applications that I would like to try. Mozart and Beethoven helping out on keeping the laminated panels straight.

The filling of the lower part of the hull is almost complete. The cypress wood fillings at the bottom of the hull make the ship quite heavy and balanced.

For the filling of the front section of the bow, I am using a much softer wood (which was salvaged from the sides and rear of my daughter's decommissioned cabinet drawers), and this softwood will also be used to fill the upper part of the hull.

The space between the bulkheads at the bottom of the hull will be filled with left-over cypress woods as ballast and planking aid.

Hi everyone~ Basic hull frame work continues. I was thinking about replacing the keel, bow and stern section with hardwood, but realized that I lacked suitable material. So, I decided to just work with cypress wood for these sections. Once I get hold of a mini table saw, I plan to use hard woods processed from the mini table saw for my next projects. For the time being, I will need to make do with a false keel.

Thanks very much, Robert!

Thank you, Patrick! I think I will really need to get a mini table saw that has low noise levels to be operated in an apartment! Also, I will definitely try to locate a woodworking shop for the panel sawing next time. Rock

Initial frame and bulkhead works more or less finished after extensive sawing and sanding!! Anyway, the nice smell of cypress wood during these works definitely provided enough consolation.

Pictures of the first few frames and bulkheads.

A view of cypress boards with their rough surface before sanding.

Hi All~ Happy New Year! I recently started working on my first scratch build project, Golden Hind. I will be using Aeropiccola plans as basis, but I will refer to several other blueprints and build logs as well. If the end product is satisfactory, I plan to make about 4 more scratch built Golden Hinds to give out to my close friends as gifts. This one is a prototype build that I will give to my daughter as present when finished - correction on 22 March 2023 : major deviation from original plan...this prototype will also be given out as present to one of my dear friend/mentor. I am planning to finish GH2 as well and give him the choice between GH1 and GH2. Although the delivery may be quite delayed as he is residing in NY and Hawaii. He may be getting a place in Seoul in the future, at which point I will be able to deliver him either GH1 or GH2. The basic wood I will be using for most of bulkheads and 1st planking will be processed from cypress wood logs that were lying around at home. And since I have no table saw (not easy to use in an apartment in Korea anyway), I sawed manually most of the wood panels and strip woods. For strips, I devised a small home made drill saw(?) and used them to make most of the strip materials . I couldn't find a woodworking shop nearby that can cut thick logs into thin panels. So I'll just apply this brute method this time, but I'll have to find a woodworking shop for my next projects and make these panels and wood strips in an easier manner. I probably need to search outside Seoul for this task. Below are the pictures of manual sawing and the wood panel obtained at the end. Cypress logs were cut into 7 mm thick pieces. It's a lot of exercise!

Thank you so much for your compliment!

Thanks very much, Steve! BTW, you are one of the masters of MSW that I benchmarked~ Rock

Thanks very much!

Thanks very much for your compliments and encouragement, Tim! I had a lot of help from many masters in MSW.

Thanks! My next project will be a scratch built Golden Hind. It will be actually my first scratch building project~ Rock