Edward Stein
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After seeing what others on this site has done to bend thick wood, success! It was actually easier then I thought it would be. Oh how I love this web site!
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The forecastle and quarter decks are almost done. I have eliminated rigging the rear of the gun carriages due to the limited space on these decks. I'm not going to do anything else until I get the whales done. I have been dreading this step but I can't put it off anymore.
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After 45 minutes of painstaking carving and removing an extra plank due to a knife slip, all I have to say is "What hole!". I am thrilled I was able to do this.
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My first major oops. I failed to mark the hole before I planked the deck. I'm going to try and pull up those pieces but I've never tried this before. The build was going so well up to this point, I guess it was inevitable that a major mistake was on the horizon.
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The measurements are H - 35 3/4" W - 18" L - 43" approximately
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I'm so glad I put the lights in.
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The upper deck is completed with the lights.
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This does make more sense then what I did. I wished I could have seen this diagram earlier. It's to late for me to make the changes on the lower decks but I will rig the rest of the cannons this way. Thank you for sharing this with me.
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Upper deck is now planked and ready for the deck furniture.
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I wasn't sure how to do it so I just made a rigging plan that I thought was right.
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Thank you
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My trail run with the lights. The picture does not show the true color of the lights. It is a dim soft yellow color. You can see inside the lower gun deck pretty good so I'm going to keep the lights in the ship.
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The lower gun deck is finally finished. It was a lot of work making the cannons but now that it's completed made the effort so worth it.
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It's Corel's Wappen von Hamburg I 1667.
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A jig I made to rig the cannons. I know that the rope coils are not accurate but it is my first attempt at it.
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I'm sorry about that. The Wappen is hanging over the Constitution.
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I would like to do the rigging for the capstan on the Wappen von Hamburg. I cannot find any pictures that shows it. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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The new version of my gun carriages using hardwoods from the advice of ChrisLBren. I like this a lot better and I've already started to mass produce them. I will be painting the wheels later. I am also very close to being done with the planking on the lower half of the hull.
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I found a real thin sheet of brass in my bone yard. I like this look so I'm going into full production with it.
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I decided to make my own gun carriages so that I can rig them. The ones that came in my kit where not casted well. I would love to make some brass strips for the sides but I'm not sure how to cut them. I have no tools to cut metal that small.
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I already started this build when I found this site. I haven't built a ship in 10 years but I always dreamed of building this kit. The price tag has prevented me from building it sooner. I purchased this kit from someone who had started it and there where pieces missing. The keel I had to make from a piece of oak and I will most likely stain it to match. Like others, I have had to make a lot of modifications to the parts supplied. I built Model Shipways U.S.S. Constitution and I was thinking of putting lights inside it but the gun ports where to small to see inside the gun deck. But this kit has bigger gun ports so I was thinking this could be the ship to add lights and more detail for the gun deck. I know by doing this that the lights can never be replaced so I'm not sure about doing it. If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would love to here them. I'm terrible at planking. I have watched videos and read many different techniques but every time I try it never goes the same. So I will muddle through this planking as I have always done.
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