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SiriusVoyager

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  1. Welcome to MSW!
  2. Welcome to MSW!
  3. Maybe a hot Iron and roll the soaked dowel on a flat surface?
  4. Welcome to MSW!
  5. I repainted the deck and re-placed the bulwarks. It looks better now. I also started with the first layer planking. In the past I tried to avoid using nails. This time I decided to try using nails instead of CA glue.
  6. Welcome to MSW!
  7. I can't believe that I asked about this a year and a half ago, but I finally got around to trying out some drill bits from McMaster. I am pretty happy with them so far.
  8. Very nice! Welcome to MSW!
  9. I am a little frustrated with myself on this update. Things are looking a bit rough. I have spent half of my time since the last update trying to redo my some of my work. At the end of the day, most of the rough parts will be covered up by planking. Painting the deck was a bit difficult for some reason. I kept getting two spots (starboard bow and port of the mizzen mast) that that always ended up significantly lighter than the rest of the deck.. Even after multiple coats, sanding and repainting, the color seems to be lighter. The camera is a cruel mistress as well as in person it looked more uniform. I will touch it up again in the morning. I have coated it with shellac. As far as the color, it appeared to me that the photos have two or three different colors. Some of it may have been lighting, but at times the colors look too different. Because of this I wasn't worried too much about the specific color. The edges of the deck aren't painted because the bulwark will be built up over the edge of the deck. I left the bare deck so that it can be glued directly to wood. The bulwarks took some struggle to get on, particularly on the bow. I should have started at the bow and worked my way stern. The tip of the bow gets removed to allow for the bowsprit so it didn't need to line up perfectly, though I would have preferred if they had. The transom was fairly straightforward. It had to be bent a bit to fit into place. The I used an iron to help bend the wood and it burnt a bit. Finally, The last issue I had was with faring the bulkheads. There are notches in each bulkhead. The instructions say to use them as a guide for the first plank. However, some of the instruction photos do not show them. I decided to use a little scrap to fill them in, as can seen in photos above. If I have to sand them away when I do the planking, so be it. Hopefully My future updates will look much better. 13:10/27:45
  10. It really depends on what you want to build, how much you want to spend and how confident you are in building.
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