James Flynn
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Ya I found quit a few maple and walnut after I made my post just didn't dig deep enough, I was reading in the Wood discussion...Where to use it? Where to get it? What types are best? How to Finish it? and didn't see any maple talked about in this desiccation then made my post I should have dug deeper.
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I thank you for your responce this helps me a tun. I'm thinking of using hard maple with a erly american stane for the planking and decking and black walnut for darker contrest like trim work and for the black strip on the side of the hull mainly because both have a fine grain structure but I don't see any one using maple at all can't help but wonder why from my research it seems to be a great wood stra straight grain esy to work finer grain then even boxwood can't figure why more people aren't using it.
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Can anyone tell me? Did the HMS Triton have a copper bottom?
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another quick question I have is the size wood I should use for my planking and my decking I'm thinking 1/4 wide x 1/8 thick I'm wondering because for such a small model that might be too big for 1/48 scale. I struggle with working out scale. Looking at it just seems too wide to be accurate scale. and do you know how long the bored should be to be accurate scale so I can have the right separation marks between them?
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I have some black walnut, but I'm concerned that it might be too dark a wood
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would you have an opinion on Acacia or teak
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would any have an opinion on using acacia or teak
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what would you think about teak it's supposed to be great for boats but models not sure
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what would red cedar be like in your opinion?
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Wow boxwood and pear exceptive and hard to get disappointing and discouraging
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Know I wish I hadn't already gone out and bought all this oak, but I thank you guys for your knowledge best to know early then closer to the end, but dang I'm going to half to build the front again for the fourth time. Guess that's modeling, do it until its right. Thanks again
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Good to know thank you for your comment curious out of the 5 you mentioned which would stain out with the best look? I'm only planning to paint the black stripe down the side I'm wanting the rest to take a stain look.
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Just so I can understand your thinking how would the larger grain structure of the oak harm the finish product?
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I made the front stem piece and the keel buy the POF plans but I couldn't get the fit without modifying them and after making them twice with the same results I decided I would build them off the POB plan and out of one solid piece also I wanted to build them out of oak with hopes of keeping the finish product looking true to form and I didn't really like the look of the birch anyway.
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Thank you for your comments and yes, I can see exactly what you're talking about, now that I have all the frames cut and sanded and on the center board, I hope not to half to redo all that work. I'm hoping to fair just enough to give me meat enough to glue the planking on. Fingers crossed
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Almost ready to start my assembly
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Looking more carfuly I think I can see how it works it looks like the gun port lintal go between the ribs from inside the hull not from outside but some of the notches are on the opposite side in the plans that's why I'm confused well hopefully it will all come together during assembly
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To be clear I do understand the gun port is the door the gun shoot's through
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I have been following Jorge's build with a magnifying glass looking over every pic. and yes, it is a great build log verry helpful and has answered many of my questions but still I have questions for example in this pic over on the far-right side is shown a side view of this bulkhead and at the top it shows two notches cut out my question is are those notches on the outside of the ship or the inside? And If I lay the bulkhead flat down on my table face up are the notch's face up or face down but if that were the case that would make beams run across the deck from one side to the other on both the gun deck and the top deck so that can't be right. What exactly is a gun port lintel Notch? And how is it used. WOW I never realized just how much I didn't know about ship building. There is so much I need to learn and even though it's taking me forever to get cutting I'm having a great time with the challenge of it all. I can't white to see the progress of this thing coming together on my bench top.
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Wow I'm looking at all these plans there are so many of these prints I have no idea what they are or where they go Might be calling on you if that's ok. All the window pieces and keel and fore deadwood pieces it's all mixed up in the way they put them in order and some of which I'm not sure were or what it is. Understand I will do my due diligence and try looking as much up as I can find before asking for help. Again, I thank you
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Also, another question I have when I printed the plans, I ended up with what looks like 4 decks, and I was thinking there is supposed to only be 3 I got plans of the Quarter deck fore castle deck which in my thinking is the top exposed deck, then the gun deck, and then the lower deck but I also got one called the for and after platforms which shows the sail room carpenters store room, Gunnards store room< Boatswains store room, slop room,- - - - Is this the verry bottom of the ship which only becomes relevant with the POF construction or is all this how the lower deck is laid out?
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Ok I'm pretty sure I understand everything you are telling me; I would like to say Thank you for taking time to chat with me about my build it means allot I'm thinking everything is in good shape the way it printed its just my lack of understanding with all this. I have build a few boats and from plans much like these but all of those had all the work done all I had to do was cut and glue with this there's allot of things to consider and I just want to try my best to get things as correct as posable in the beginning foundation of the build in an attempt to avoid future problem's as I get deeper into the ship. Origenaley in the beginning I was thinking 3/8 might be too big to build my frames out of but I went and got a piece of 1/4 and cut it out and the uprights look to small, and flimsy was wondering would you recommend I use 1/4 or the 3/8'' stock?
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What I'm really worried about is the bulkhead size did my print come out correct or is something bad wrong
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