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fnkershner You can also look at my pages 7 and 8 to see I used pins, clamps, rubber bands etc to curve stern planks in place.
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Finish the transom like on my page 9. Then you have a target for the long planks like on page 13. To hold them while the glue dries takes some creativity. Clamps, rubber bands pins, etc
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Thanks Thomas, Tom and Alan. Several models ago I was completely driven crazy trying to build gratings when I hit on using a comb. It works perfectly. Half the comb has fine the other half larger spaced.
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I'm building the first grate. My jig is a simple comb. The glue is a mixture of water and PVA. 3 or 4 to 1 mixture
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I'm using Watco Danish Oil Golden Oak, but any golden oak will do
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I love your self made cleats!! I've got to make them also. The ones with the kit are awful. Nice Job
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Shot rack factory with my #2 pencil drill. A miracle has happened ....I have not dropped one mini cannonball to be lost forever on the floor of my shipyard!
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Continuing building the deck works and shot racks. The instructions say to drill partial holes for that tiny tiny shot? I finally just drilled the semi-holes with a sharp #2 pencil. It worked just fine. These are the smallest cannon shot I've ever had to work with.
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I'm am now installing the companionway and all the woodwork surrounding it. If you remember, I pre-built the companionway weeks ago while trying to figure out pintels and gudgeons. Then I will take up Jesse's suggestion for installing the Carronade swivels
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Thanks Jesse. From the looks of it, I could have just left the waterways square and the human eye could not tell the difference
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I scratch my head when I run into this kind of planning. The plans had me install the waterways after they have been sanded to a triangle shape. Now the plan wants me to install the carronade swivel brackets with barely anyway to keep them level since gluing surface available is nil. I'll hold off installing them so I can figure out how to do this.
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Well I'll just have to fix them if they get bumped. That's part of this game we play building ships
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I spent the 14 months on a big floating airport. The swabbies had to put up with us.
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Pre-painting the carronade swivel brackets. Everything with guns is mass production. These go on the bulkhead so I'm painting them before hand since there is no way my shaky fingers could paint them after glued on. I stuck them to masking tape to keep paint off the glue side.
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I installed the top rail. I'm not very good with three dimensional puzzles. That's exactly what trying to install all those pieces involved with the top rail are. It's far from perfect, but it's the best I can do. Now I have to clean up excess glue, etc.
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