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Good Morning !
 
The construction site is now completed.  It is composed of a Melamine board 48 by 16 by 3/4 thick I liquid nailed to 1/1/4 Red Oak Stair Balusters.  It is dead level.  The rest of the structure is 3/4 MDF and 1/4 MDF for the upper platform with the usual 1/4 threaded rods.  I abandoned both the 3/4 inch birch plywood board screwed into the same oak balusters - it was not as level - and a 3/4 thick MDF board glued to 3/4 square battens.  I will use the 3/4 MDF as a moveable platform for the plans.  
 
My Taig milled arrived this week as well.  I chose the Taig as I was able to purchase a refurbished unit with the same warranty as new for a discount to list.  It comes stock to run at 10000rpm to cut wood with the upgraded motor.  I love its weight as 80lbs and the x travels a full 12 inches.  Its an amazing tool built with the same craftsmanship as my Byrnes machines.   Most of the Sherline accessories will fit it.  While not necessary to build this ship (I do love collecting tools though!) - it will certainly make the complicated and large structures of the bow and stern at this scale hopefully easier to realize.  Its first task will be to cut the rabbets into the keel parts.    



 

Making the yards - Main yard - Grande vergue
Before starting to make the yards, I made myself a planing jig in advance, inspired by Ed Tosti's build report for the clipper "Young America" in the MSW, as shown in the drawing below. Rotating and locking clamps allow lumber of various widths and lengths to be fixed in place for machining, especially with a wood planer. 
 
To make the main yard, I prepared a drawing with dimensions based on the plan by J. Boudriot.

 
The next two pictures show how the holding device mentioned at the beginning of the report can be used in practice. 
It performs valuable services in the manufacture of yards. For example, a wooden strip with a V-shaped groove was clamped in place. A square timber inserted in this way can easily be planed into an octagonal timber. In this case for the main yard and later for the leeward spars. These timber blanks are then much easier to machine on the lathe. In addition, they are used to roughly preform the octagonal areas of the yards or studding sail booms. 

   
With the following pictures I illustrate the further processing steps in the yard production. 



       
In contrast to the main yard, the studding sail booms are much more delicate logs with diameters of 3.7 to 2.2 mm, which had to be machined. So that this succeeds also without breakage, I built for this with simple means a small steady rest. With this I can bring small ball bearings for round timber with diameters of 1 - 10 mm into position for support. In the meantime, the small tool has already proven itself very well. 

On the last picture you can see the first results.

 
To be continued ...

 
 

Hi all, not much news from La Palme, scratch, scratch............ scratch. I'm getting closer to finishing the inside of the hull. I made some sanding blocks at the beginning and worked with them, but in my eyes this is not purposeful. It's best to work with the drawing plates - the result is great and, above all, precise.
 


 

 

The sheep pen ("Redil" in Spanish; "pare à moutons" in French) is just put in place, not glued.

After a short break I'm back to making frame's, I haven't  ran into any problems  with the plans,everything seems to line up,and all the frames are symmetrical,if there's a slight mistake it's my fault because I redraw every frame by hand before I transfer to wood,I  don't have access to a copier to duplicate the plans in multiples,other than that the framing seems to be going good she's  starting to look like a ship with very nice line's. 

First of all I would like to thank you for your comments and likes. On Sunday evening I couldn't quite finish the fuselage because a situation arose that I didn't have in the test run, everything fitted perfectly.        



 
I had to let everything sink in and looked for a solution today. What went wrong, from frame 47 onwards a mistake crept in that I hadn't noticed, the right angle was no longer right and at frames 51-52 it was too late. I had to edit the last two keys.
 


It is not optimal but I had no other choice and I am not very happy with this solution. Well, what can I say.



 

short frame removed

new long frame installed

doorways cut in

next update will be installing the cills

Hi everyone,
 
Thanks again for the comments and likes. Since the last update I have installed the forecastle and quarterdeck beams and hatch carlings, coamings and ladders. The waterways were then installed along with the beam rabbets for the fore and aft planking. Finally I completed the bulwark planking. I am looking forward to building the windlass and capstan next.






Until next time,
Ian
 
 

The construction of a height adjustable workbench for 45 euros.

 
 

some small advances. This galley stove is keeping me very busy!
 

Great beautiful work Oliver.

After a long period of inactivity due to job matters, here you are a small update including the main capstan.

Got most of the sanding done today.  Decided to mark off the top timbers and cut those back and mark off and install the gallery side doors to the officers toilets (seats of ease) and get those done (install the cills) before I complete the sanding.
 
While marking the timbers for the doorways I discovered I had one short adjacent timber located improperly... it needed to be the next one over.  I suppose I should have triple checked.  So I need to remove that pair (port and starboard or larboard if we're being correct for the period) and reinstall longer timbers before I cut any doorways.
 
I will post a photo when I'm done.

Thank you very much for your comments and your liking, place the last photos, the model of Naiad is over, thank you so much for following me during construction and I thank Ed Tosti so much that with his magnificent drawings allowed me to build this beautiful frigate. Greetings to everyone and thanks again.
 

Good morning.

Great beautiful work AON.

Great beautiful work AON.

got my last frame installed yesterday and the chocks (spacers) today.
Will start sanding Monday or Tuesday and cut in the doorways.
 

Hi Tobias great beautiful work.

Hello colleagues,
I am very pleased that despite a long break there is still interest in the progress of my model.
A hearty thank you for it.
Completion: Standing rigging for jib and outer jib boom - Bâton de foc et bâton de clinfoc
After the final work on the standing rigging for the jib boom and the outer jib boom, I can also finish this chapter. So the standing rigging for the French corvette is finished except for a few minor details.
Accordingly, here are a few pictures that give an overview of the bowsprit rigging.


 




 
 
Soon I will dedicate myself to the production of the yards. So I am looking forward to work more intensively with wood again.
To be continued ...
 

After 2 months of consistent work - 63 frames are cut and assembled and ready for sanding/bevels. One partial stern frame remains to be assembled later.  I need to tweak both the stern keel parts to make sure everything fits snug and re do bow parts part h and i.  Then to cut the rabbet.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Fantastic work Bitao.

And with these images I have also finished the stern section of the Nereid. Below are the two sections as I wanted to represent them and in the last pictures, provisionally attached to a plinth.

Good morning, stern light.

Hi Giampiero great beautiful work.