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Rustyj

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  1. Hi All,

     

    My chapter 5 Cherry parts arrived a while ago and I've found sometime to get back at the Winnie.

    Though Chuck supplied a superb laser cut rudder I tried my hand at cutting one out of pear on

    my scroll saw. I'm pleased with the way it came out so I will be using it.

     

    Here it is assembled waiting to be tapered on the aft side towards the bottom. It needs to end up

    around 5/32" wide. I marked it off and you can see one side sanded to the correct thickness.

     

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    These are the boxwood laser cut pintels and gudgeons. They were added to the rudder along with the straps

    and 20# monofilament to simulate the bolts.

     

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    Next I'll have to flip the hull over and, gasp, cut the rudder port in the lower counter and hang the rudder.

    Nothing can go wrong doing that can it?!

  2. 18 hours ago, rafine said:

    I went with natural gun carriages, but a red capstan. It just seemed "right " to me. It is my intention to rig the guns with breach ropes and side tackles

     

    Hi Bob, Everything is looking really nice. Red capstan for me also. I'm undecided on the gun carriages as I think both ways look really good. I intend to add at least the breach ropes and eagerly look forward to seeing how your side tackles come out!

  3. Thank you Glenn and Jean-Paul. Also for all the likes. 

     

    On ‎4‎/‎2‎/‎2021 at 2:04 AM, glennard2523 said:

    It will not long before you start adding the rigging.

     

    With my expanded work schedule unfortunately rigging will go slowly. With one day off a week it leaves little time available. When rigging I don't like to jump in and out with a half hour here, forty five minutes there. I prefer to have a couple of hours at a time so I can "get in a grove". 

     

  4. On ‎3‎/‎25‎/‎2021 at 8:43 AM, Blue Ensign said:

    Did you first start by thinning the inboard rails, or the frames? It seems to me that the rails would be sanded horizontally along the grain, and the frames vertically.

     

    Sorry for the late reply B.E.

    If I remember correctly it was a combination of both. I would sand horizontally at the rail and the first 7-10mm or so as of the frames as they were strong there. Then the as much as possible the lower portions of the frames were sanded vertically. 

     

    Hope this helps!

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