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  1. HIPEXEC
    Jesse, I've been looking at yours all along.
  2. HIPEXEC
    Clever repair
  3. HIPEXEC
    The first picture is of a pre-bent, pre-twisted, pre-beveled plank. The next photo shows this plank freshly glued in place. Notice...it doesn't need clamps!
  4. HIPEXEC
    Another pair of planks. so far so good with just the usual problems attached to planking
  5. HIPEXEC
    While the glue dries on my last plank, I'm wet pre-forming two planks putting the last bends, twists and curves before beveling and later tapering.
  6. HIPEXEC
    I love the way my planks fit into place after all the pre-bending, twisting, beveling and wet pre-fitting I do. The fully prepared plank virtually snaps into place even without glue. I've come a long way from the first models where I wrestled with planks forcing them into place.
  7. HIPEXEC
    Another plank. I'm showing all progress in case someone really wants to see how long this planking process takes me and why. On many logs they show the beginning of the planking process...then wham....they show the whole hull planked. If it only was that easy.
  8. HIPEXEC
    Moving along nicely
  9. HIPEXEC
    Slow but sure planking along
  10. HIPEXEC
    I can see Captain Billy Tyne on the bridge. Nice work
  11. HIPEXEC
    Balsa seemed to work for me in past models.
  12. HIPEXEC
    Yes....both up and down. I'll have to start tapering soon.
  13. HIPEXEC
    Very nice gun rigging
  14. HIPEXEC
    I'm showing pictures of plank progression since the plans do not have detailed pictures as the planking progresses. The center part of the hull is always the trickiest part, so I will take photos along the way so maybe it can help others building this kit.
  15. HIPEXEC
    1/8" a day. That's slow planking. So, I'm still bending, shaping and gluing planks. Pre-shaping the plank on the hull really makes the gluing part easy. No forcing at all.
  16. HIPEXEC
    Excellent work!
  17. HIPEXEC
    I'm still planking away
  18. HIPEXEC
    I just finished gluing the port and starboard garboard planks. By pre-shaping them, they just snapped into place.
  19. HIPEXEC
    Now I'm shaping the first garboard plank. It goes from vertical to past 45 back to vertical
  20. HIPEXEC
    Here I'm bending and twisting a plank in several directions so it will easily fit on the hull. Most of the planks from now on will need the same treatment.
  21. HIPEXEC
    With all the manipulating the hull while planking, the center section of the transom came un-glued. It'll be good the get the transom planked to protect it.
  22. HIPEXEC
    Here's the upper planks without clamps. They look pretty good without any sanding if I say so myself.
  23. HIPEXEC
    My Syren plywood was heavily charred and very difficult to sand off. In some places I never removed all of the char. Good luck with your build.
  24. HIPEXEC
    I've installed the last upper planks. I've made a slight mod to the plans which I will explain later. I also noticed that one side is 1/32 higher than the other? Go figure. It's an east fix with some sanding, but with all the careful measuring I did for the first plank, something must have slipped in the first gluing.
  25. HIPEXEC
    With the clamps off it's starting to look like a ship

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