Rustyj

Hi All,

Well I've completed the hull planking and the square tuck. Taking ones time,

using the planking fan, planning out the belts and run of the planks actual

makes for a very enjoyable experience. No more forcing planks and getting

an uneven planking job. Follow Chucks description and methods and you won't

be disappointed.

Also you'll notice that a work area cleaning was recently completed!

I'll be out of touch for a couple of days so I'll apologize now for any late response.

Hi Chuck.

As you said there will be many variations.

When I get to that point I may make the trucks out of swiss pear just to see how that looks.

If that doesn't work then it's red or natural. Time will tell.

Great workmanship Chuck! She's.looking really good.

Well I've been successful in the past so I'm game to try again.

Getting tougher every year though.

Thanks Chuck.

Mark I've free handed in the past. If it doesn't go well this time I'll start over and mask it off.

Hi All,

After placing the first two strakes it was time to line off the hull. The hull

was divided into two bands of 9. Each band was laid out using tick strips

and a planking fan as Chuck described in his log. I also added the second

layer to the wales now. I will wait to paint them until the hull is fully planked.

Here is the first belt fully planked.

Very nice Bob. Remember how you did it so I can bug you later!

Thanks Chris and welcome aboard!

Thanks Mike. Unfortunately this revelation came from screwing up the Wales on a couple of other builds.

Thank you Ben and also the "likes".

I've made the fashion pieces and placed them. At this point I'm supposed

to add the second layer of the wales. I decided to delay putting them on until

I run the first couple of rows of hull planking.

The plans shows a drop plank near the bow. So I'm running the first two strakes

with the drop plank before lining off the rest of the hull. A card template was used

to find its shape and then cut from a boxwood sheet.

Next up will be a lot of planking.  

Very nice Chuck!

As one who has enjoyed you making some of these laser parts available to us I thank you!  

Hi All,

The transom has been planked but like everything else needs a good sanding.

Here you can see how interior of the outside stern frames have to

be thinned down to about 1/6".

Next I'll have to do the fashion pieces and start planking the hull.

Wow Ben. Sorry to see that your having expansion problems. Hopefully getting the humidity

stabilized will keep it from happening again. On the good side that's a great looking workshop

you've got going there. Good luck.

Wonderful!!!!!

Thanks gerty.

Bob it'd be money well spent as I'm always learning from you.

I start out with a clean desk, lots of room. Then hour by hour, day by day the area that I can work

in gets smaller and smaller. Eventually (usually within a week or two) the space is so small I'm

setting the model on top of the clutter.

Then it's clean it up, put everything where it belongs and within thirty minutes it all starts over again.

Even adding a second then a third bench didn't help. In the long run it just ment I had more to clean up.

I’ve added the planking between the gun ports. Pretty straight forward.

Still a lot of sanding to do.

Here you can see the stern framing with the reference line it will need to be

sanded down to prior to planking the Transom.

Beautiful!!!!!!

Thanks Bob. Mind if I throw it in the mail so you can plank the hull?

Hi All,

We've had some really cold weather here. -25F last night. That means lots of

time in the workshop. I've started the outboard planking from the wales upwards.

Here is the batten strip placed to set the run of the wales.

The first layer of the wales have been added as well as a thin strip added bellow

the gunports. This serves a location for the molding to be placed in a second layer

as well insuring the run is smooth.

Then the planks were added between the wales and the molding strip.

She looks a little sloppy now but once I finish the planking between the gunports

I'll give it a quick sanding to clean it up.

The remaining stern frames were glued into position and the sills and lintels

added for the stern ports. Then the start of the square was made with the

placement of a piece cut from some 1/32" sheet.

You also can see the preliminary fairing of the outboard edge of the stern frames.

Next up will be the start of the hull planking. I'm off to start cutting the strips of boxwood.  

Well done mate! She looks as good as I thought she would when you started this build and thanks

for the kind words. It was my pleasure. The only thing I wish is that I could have built mine alone with

you and Mobbsie. It would have improved mine considerably and been a lot of fun.

Enjoy that Chris-Craft and I look forward to seeing some more of that great work you do.  

That is some great work Bob!

I too am curious as to what is next in your cue!

Hi Mobbsie,

You know that you are always welcome aboard!

This a really great build and I think you would love it!  

Thanks Mike, Deon and Bob and all the "likes". Much appreciated.

Bob I'm sure that's just one of many fun things awaiting me!

To start assembling the laser cut stern frames I first had to glue the two outer

frames for each side together. They were then placed in the corresponding slots

on the stern. Then three more frames were glued to these. In all 5 layers were

assembled on each side.

Here they are all glued and clamped to dry.

Once dry the laser char was removed. A reference line needed to be marked on

the frames. To do this I glued a piece of pencil lead to the end. Holding the strip

wood against the hull I traced the reference line. The wood will be removed so it

is close to the hull fairing.