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Jesse, I've been looking at yours all along.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can see Captain Billy Tyne on the bridge. Nice work
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Balsa as bow/stern filler
HIPEXEC replied to Roks82's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
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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.
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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.
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I just finished gluing the port and starboard garboard planks. By pre-shaping them, they just snapped into place.
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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.
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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.
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Here's the upper planks without clamps. They look pretty good without any sanding if I say so myself.
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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.
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