captainbob

Here is another one.  I bought the Harbor Freight equivalent of Micro-Mark’s small grinder with flex shaft.  The shaft hand piece became brittle and fell apart and the grinder was under powered; trying to grind anything would stop the motor.  
 
But I found that I had a 3/8” keyless chuck that fit the thread on the right end shaft, and that, plus a support at the far end made a great mast lathe.  So maybe it wasn’t such a waste after all.
 
Bob

I found this on the web a couple years ago.  Be sure to test it first.
 
Bob
 
Tannic acid does not produce a blue black color - that is a combination of tannic and ferrous acetate. Ferrous sulfate
I have being toying with either painting or staining the oar because I didn't care for the finish. Then I saw a pin titled "how to make new wood look old" from Frugal Farm House Design blog and I thought I'd give that a try. She gives an awesome step by step with photos to see it go here. I will just tell ya the basics.

Step one: take some steel wool and put in a jar and cover with vinegar. Let it sit at least 24 hours, the longer the better. (I expected the vinegar mixture to turn black or something but it didn't.)

after 24 hours

Step two: make a strong cup of tea. I used Chai. brush the tea on the wood and let dry.

Step three: brush on the vinegar mixture.
 

 
The before pic above is after the tea was brushed on & it was still wet.

I expected it to happen instantly and it didn't. I walked away and came back an hour later and it had worked.
 
 
 

You must read the whole set.
The part I like best is:  Flying is not hard. It is simply a matter of throwing yourself at the ground and missing.
 
Bob

I found this on the web a couple years ago.  Be sure to test it first.
 
Bob
 
Tannic acid does not produce a blue black color - that is a combination of tannic and ferrous acetate. Ferrous sulfate
I have being toying with either painting or staining the oar because I didn't care for the finish. Then I saw a pin titled "how to make new wood look old" from Frugal Farm House Design blog and I thought I'd give that a try. She gives an awesome step by step with photos to see it go here. I will just tell ya the basics.

Step one: take some steel wool and put in a jar and cover with vinegar. Let it sit at least 24 hours, the longer the better. (I expected the vinegar mixture to turn black or something but it didn't.)

after 24 hours

Step two: make a strong cup of tea. I used Chai. brush the tea on the wood and let dry.

Step three: brush on the vinegar mixture.
 

 
The before pic above is after the tea was brushed on & it was still wet.

I expected it to happen instantly and it didn't. I walked away and came back an hour later and it had worked.
 
 
 

Popeye,
 
If you were to go “normal” the joy would be gone and I might as well put on my bathrobe and hop the next passing spaceship.
 
Bob

Popeye,
 
If you were to go “normal” the joy would be gone and I might as well put on my bathrobe and hop the next passing spaceship.
 
Bob

Popeye,
 
Very good, that's a pair to be proud of.  And so much fun watching them being build at the same time.
 
Bob

Good thoughts Andy, or have a swimming platform on the Denny Zen also. They'll have to do something waiting for them lobsters to snare themselves.
 
No diving board huh, what about the on board HOT TUB!
 
Seriously though I love the crazy thoughs your builds stir in me. Who needs rules in a hobby other then those you make.

“Cost over runs”?  My admiral is into catalog shopping.  She doesn’t even leave the house to spend money.
 
Bob

Are you guys talking of sheaves or really of the axles, i.e. the pins on which the sheaves run ? I have never heard that the axles were made from anything else, but metal. The friction of wood on wood would be rather to high and they would very quickly wear down without constant greasing.
 
I think there has never been a complete shift over from wood to metal as far as blocks for organic and man-made fibres is concerned. The sheaves of blocks for wire rigging to my knowledge have (almost) always been from cast iron. The wire rope would simply saw into wooden sheaves. Also, wire rope requires relatively large sheaves that would be quite expensive to make from wood.
 
wefalck

Latest from the fitting shop this evening.
 
Been working on a Ancor, and a fresh water filling cap....
Still a bit work to do on the ancor before its finished..
 
Børge

Today I made a couple of buckets for the dory.  There are many methods, but this is the way I did it.
 
 
First I cut 12 staves the same size and mount them on a piece of masking tape.  These are .03” X .50” X .16”.  

I sand a slight taper from end to end so one end is narrower than the other.

Then one by one I sand the edges so the cross section is a trapezoid.

Place them side by side on clear tape with the smaller face pointing up and the narrow ends all at the same edge.  You can see how the taper causes a curve.

Cut off one end of the tape flush with the edge of the last stave.

Now roll the tape with the wood inside until the first and last pieces of wood meet and the tape on the end goes around the outside to hold it all together.

Make a disc of wood to fit inside the smaller end and glue it into place.

The bands are made from narrow strips of card stock.  After cutting I stained them.

Cut the tape off the lower part of the bucket and glue the card stock to look like a band.

Remove the rest of the tape and glue the other band around the top.

I didn't measure the taped staves for the diameter of the bottom but you could measure everything carefully and use geometry.
 
 
Bob

Finally I was able to do a little more on the dory. 
I started to paint the inside the same blue as the outside, but everything I saw showed the inside tan, yellow or yellow-orange.  So I painter it a warm yellow.  
 

 
I also added the lifting ropes in the bow and stern.
 



 
Now I need to put the boat aside and make all the things that the fisherman needed I n the boat.
 
Later, Bob
 

Thanks Mark,
 
Making repetitive parts reminds me of a story.
 
A man driving down a country road sees some handmade furniture in front of a house.  He liked the look of one of the chairs and asks the price.  The craftsman said $35.00.  The man thinking the chair would make nice dining room chairs orders a set of eight.  The craftsman says “That will be $2000.00.”  The man complains and asks why so much.  The craftsman says . . . “The first one was fun”.
 
So now two more buckets.
 
Bob

Today I made a couple of buckets for the dory.  There are many methods, but this is the way I did it.
 
 
First I cut 12 staves the same size and mount them on a piece of masking tape.  These are .03” X .50” X .16”.  

I sand a slight taper from end to end so one end is narrower than the other.

Then one by one I sand the edges so the cross section is a trapezoid.

Place them side by side on clear tape with the smaller face pointing up and the narrow ends all at the same edge.  You can see how the taper causes a curve.

Cut off one end of the tape flush with the edge of the last stave.

Now roll the tape with the wood inside until the first and last pieces of wood meet and the tape on the end goes around the outside to hold it all together.

Make a disc of wood to fit inside the smaller end and glue it into place.

The bands are made from narrow strips of card stock.  After cutting I stained them.

Cut the tape off the lower part of the bucket and glue the card stock to look like a band.

Remove the rest of the tape and glue the other band around the top.

I didn't measure the taped staves for the diameter of the bottom but you could measure everything carefully and use geometry.
 
 
Bob

Thanks Mark,
 
Making repetitive parts reminds me of a story.
 
A man driving down a country road sees some handmade furniture in front of a house.  He liked the look of one of the chairs and asks the price.  The craftsman said $35.00.  The man thinking the chair would make nice dining room chairs orders a set of eight.  The craftsman says “That will be $2000.00.”  The man complains and asks why so much.  The craftsman says . . . “The first one was fun”.
 
So now two more buckets.
 
Bob

Today I made a couple of buckets for the dory.  There are many methods, but this is the way I did it.
 
 
First I cut 12 staves the same size and mount them on a piece of masking tape.  These are .03” X .50” X .16”.  

I sand a slight taper from end to end so one end is narrower than the other.

Then one by one I sand the edges so the cross section is a trapezoid.

Place them side by side on clear tape with the smaller face pointing up and the narrow ends all at the same edge.  You can see how the taper causes a curve.

Cut off one end of the tape flush with the edge of the last stave.

Now roll the tape with the wood inside until the first and last pieces of wood meet and the tape on the end goes around the outside to hold it all together.

Make a disc of wood to fit inside the smaller end and glue it into place.

The bands are made from narrow strips of card stock.  After cutting I stained them.

Cut the tape off the lower part of the bucket and glue the card stock to look like a band.

Remove the rest of the tape and glue the other band around the top.

I didn't measure the taped staves for the diameter of the bottom but you could measure everything carefully and use geometry.
 
 
Bob

Ah, but she's out and working.  She'll be hosed down when she gets to dock and sells all those lobsters. 
Of course Popeye will have to keep some for his own dinner.
 
Good work Popeye.
 
Bob

Nice looking dah on that lobsta pot, Popeye. 
 
Bob

]It’s amazing what you learn when you build a boat the way they were actually built.  I had always wondered why lap strake.  It seems like a difficult way to build a boat.  But then I decided to build a dory and guess what, they were lap strake built.  The building taught me why. 
 
The planks of a dory were only 5/8” thick, and the only way to get enough surface area between planks and provide a good seal is to put matching angles on planks so that instead of 5/8” surface you end up with about 1½”. 
 
 Here is the dory hull, still a long way to go. 
 
Bob
 

 

Hi all,
 
Years ago I read "Sailing Alone Around the World" by Joshua Slocum, and in January 2012 I decided that I would build his boat, the "SPRAY", in 1/48 scale POF with bent framing. The way Slocum built it.  I started asking questions on this forum, and I want to thank all those who answerd with help.  The information on this forum is invaluable.
 
Then the research began.  In the first chapter of his book, Slocum said he was given an old "fishing smack".  So I looked for fishing smacks of 1800.  About when his was built.  Someone suggested the "Emma C Berry" for framing, so I hunted for information on that boat.  I also gathered as many plan drawings of the "Spray" as I could find.  About five.
 
Now it was time to check and redraw the plans.  The first thing I discovered was that ALL the plans had errors.  Things like, the shear and section views would agree and the shear and the plan views would agree, but the width of the plan was no where near the same as the width of the sections.  Of the drawings I had, the drawing from the appendix in the book was the closest.  So I traced that into an old copy of AutoCad and worked out the errors.
 
Checking the fishing smacks plans had shown a frame spacing of from 15" to 22" I chose 18" for framing the Spray.  I drew a section at each frame.  I offset a line .031" inside to subtract the 1.5" planking Slocum used.  The frames will be 3" X 5" so again I offset another line .062 inside the planking for the frames.  This gave me the section lines for the plug I will carve to shape the frames.
 
I am going to plank only half the deck and deck houses so I can show the insides, taken from the sketches in Slocum's book. (See below)
 
Bob
 

Bob,
The Grand Banks Dory was my first scratch build. In fact it is my first completed boat. I just completed it last week.
I used the plans from the Shearwater site but built it half size at 1:24 scale.
http://www.shearwater-boats.com/doryinst.html
I am going to try to attach a photo taken with my iPad - not the best quality but I'm pretty proud of this little guy.
Pete

Popeye,
 
Seems to me that you're having way too much fun in this building. . . Wait . . . Having fun is what it's all about . . . Never mind.
 
Bob

Popeye,
 
Seems to me that you're having way too much fun in this building. . . Wait . . . Having fun is what it's all about . . . Never mind.
 
Bob

Popeye,
 
Seems to me that you're having way too much fun in this building. . . Wait . . . Having fun is what it's all about . . . Never mind.
 
Bob