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Mike Y got a reaction from fatih79 in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Important milestone achieved - removed frame centers:
Frames are quite thick, not sure why. Manual says that they should be later sanded down. Probably they would be too fragile otherwise
After sanding, looks quite neat:
Hull is extremely light, it feels like an egg shell. Just 20gr (0.705oz)!
Amount of sanding required really reminds me on an old anecdote about Japanese spies stealing blueprints of Soviet jet fighter, which looked more like a steam locomotive after assembling. There was a small fine print in the manual - sand down some material to shape it like a jet fighter....
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Mike Y reacted to michael mott in Low speed power drill
Finished the drill today, it is not quite as powerful as i would like but the drill works fine for those very small drills.
First picture shows the the additional ball race and flywheel.
The second shows the second to last sleeve which is the same diameter as the can motor the hole lines up with the locking hole in the flywheel and also the 2x56 set screw. The largest sleeve has a wooden end piece that the wires exit from .
last one show the # 80 drill and some holes in some boxwood, there is no vibration and it runs soothly.
All the tubes were assembled with loctite except the solid end brass keeper next to the chuck, which was soldered with soft solder..
All in all I am pleased with the salvage.
michael
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Mike Y reacted to garyshipwright in Hawse Bucklers
Sorry Jay. Got a little busy but here is a couple of photo's showing them along with the scuppers and manger. Still some work going on in this area so forgive the mess. Hope it helps down the road. Gary
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Mike Y reacted to Stuntflyer in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Mike, add one more "well done!" from me.
I did some tests with stain and found that lightly applying the stain onto the basswood using gauze, as suggested, works quite well. Before staining I finish sanded the wood with 400 TRI-MITE sandpaper. The trick to getting the stain on evenly (at least for me) was to candle the test pieces, making sure that the wood was sanded consistent in sheen thereby showing no low spots. Hope this helps. Mike
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Mike Y got a reaction from robin b in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Thanks B.E.!
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Mike Y got a reaction from aviaamator in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Applied stain. Hat tip Amfibius, with wipe on method it's much better:
Some spots on a bow do not soak any stain. I tried to scratch and gently sand them to "open" fibers, but no luck.
Then added a coat of a wipe-on poly. Reflections are not as strong in real life, it's just a lamp that I use when taking photos
Whole staining experience confirmed that the best stain is no stain, good wood do not require any staining, just a gentle cover of a poly.
Now looking forward to inner hull sanding!
Also ordered boxwood longboat, will do the next build better then this one
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Mike Y got a reaction from Mirabell61 in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Finished treenailing and sanding. Sanded with 240 -> 600 -> 1200 grits, the result is kind of smooth (if you can say that about that wood).
The stains here are not glue or dirt, it is really such wood first and last experience with cheap wood for planking.
But luckily my staining experiments show that stain will smoothen the wood color a bit.
Also planked the transom:
Now the most tricky part - painting. If I do it wrong - whole build is trashed and will deserve a good old viking funeral!
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Mike Y got a reaction from aviaamator in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Treenailed one side of the ship. Will do same for other side, and then polish and then cover with wipe-on poly.
Question: what is the best way to polish basswood?
Tried a smooth sandpaper, then scraping with sharp blade, still not smooth enough, wood fibers are poking in various directions. Is there any trick? Maybe I should make it a bit wet and the polish? What about different polishing wool or cotton disks that are used with dremel, can you use them with wood?
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Mike Y got a reaction from fatih79 in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Here is how shaved hedgehog could look like:
This dremel nylon disk brush turned out to be really good tool to remove remainings of the glue:
Example:
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Mike Y got a reaction from aviaamator in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Treenail imitation in progress. It turned out to be faster then I thought, average speed is about a hundred nails per hour, including drilling. Holes are 0.60mm, I did a series of tests on scrap planks, 0.60 is the best looking compromise. 0.70 too big, while 0.50 is too tight, a lot of glue is not getting into the hole, some nails fall off.
Nice hedgehog
The trickiest part would be cutting off the toothpics and remainings of glue, with a very little sanding. Some planks are too thin after previous hull sanding..
Hobby knife should do the trick!
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Mike Y got a reaction from aviaamator in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Time for a warm lamp light!
Very easy to mark treenai holes with a small spotlight. Planks are thin and frames are neatly highlighted
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Mike Y got a reaction from aviaamator in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Slowpoke detected, it is me!
I was sure that MS pinnace is the same as MS longboat, but without masts. MS website promise that lengtth is equal. But, no! I had a growing suspicion, hey, longboats in other build logs looks shorter then mine, thy is it soooooo long?
It looks like Pinnace is a stretched longboat, 24 frames instead of 16.
Which gives me around thousand treenails, if i use "two treenails per frame per plank" pattern. That is a hell lot of toothpics! But looks like I have no choice.
Sanding cant fix all planking mistakes, if you dont want to have a holes in the hull:
Wide stealer plank is better then two thin straler planks, but worse then a properly precalculated evenly sized planks
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Mike Y got a reaction from Nirvana in Wasan 1628 by Nazgul - FINISHED - Billing Boats Vasa 1:75
Nice video about Vasa model builder, made by Vasa museum:
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Mike Y reacted to Keith_W in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Ingenious method for placing the treenails. When I treenailed my boat, I drilled the treenails out from inside. Very tricky work - I had to remember to keep my drill 90deg to the wood at all times, otherwise the outside hole would be uneven! Your treenails are beautiful!
My boat is constructed of the same basswood as yours. I found that dry sanding with successively finer grades was enough to produce a good finish.
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Mike Y reacted to DesertWolf in San Francisco 2 by DesertWolf - Artesania Latina
Hey Robbyn, thanks for dropping in. I still want to sit down and read your whole Syren log. The last time I had some spare time on my hands I got so caught up in Augie's tool endorsements... uhh, I mean uhh... Confederacy log... that I didn't have time to read anything else.
Thanks for the kind words Moonbug. Much appreciated!
Hey Matti, I like the new avatar! Always nice to see you stopping by.
I finally got time to make some progress on the boat. I fitted the thwarts and thwart knees.
I sprayed the exterior hull white. I decided not to sand the hull absolutely smooth before spaying it. I wanted the final product to have a more natural, coarse look – and a number of test runs gave me the impression that a super smooth sprayed hull will look more like a fiberglass boat than like a wooden boat painted white. In hindsight I’d say the verdict is still out on that one, but I’m not too unhappy about the result.
Next I’ll add the rudder and whales.
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Mike Y reacted to 42rocker in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Very Interesting idea with the light and the hedgehog is cute.
Later Tim
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Mike Y got a reaction from fatih79 in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Treenail imitation in progress. It turned out to be faster then I thought, average speed is about a hundred nails per hour, including drilling. Holes are 0.60mm, I did a series of tests on scrap planks, 0.60 is the best looking compromise. 0.70 too big, while 0.50 is too tight, a lot of glue is not getting into the hole, some nails fall off.
Nice hedgehog
The trickiest part would be cutting off the toothpics and remainings of glue, with a very little sanding. Some planks are too thin after previous hull sanding..
Hobby knife should do the trick!
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Mike Y got a reaction from mtaylor in Wasan 1628 by Nazgul - FINISHED - Billing Boats Vasa 1:75
Nice video about Vasa model builder, made by Vasa museum:
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Mike Y got a reaction from 42rocker in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Time for a warm lamp light!
Very easy to mark treenai holes with a small spotlight. Planks are thin and frames are neatly highlighted
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Mike Y got a reaction from fnkershner in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Time for a warm lamp light!
Very easy to mark treenai holes with a small spotlight. Planks are thin and frames are neatly highlighted
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Mike Y got a reaction from Vivian Galad in Wasan 1628 by Nazgul - FINISHED - Billing Boats Vasa 1:75
Nice video about Vasa model builder, made by Vasa museum:
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Mike Y got a reaction from NAZGÛL in Wasan 1628 by Nazgul - FINISHED - Billing Boats Vasa 1:75
Nice video about Vasa model builder, made by Vasa museum:
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Mike Y got a reaction from Ulises Victoria in Wasan 1628 by Nazgul - FINISHED - Billing Boats Vasa 1:75
Nice video about Vasa model builder, made by Vasa museum:
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Mike Y got a reaction from fatih79 in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Slowpoke detected, it is me!
I was sure that MS pinnace is the same as MS longboat, but without masts. MS website promise that lengtth is equal. But, no! I had a growing suspicion, hey, longboats in other build logs looks shorter then mine, thy is it soooooo long?
It looks like Pinnace is a stretched longboat, 24 frames instead of 16.
Which gives me around thousand treenails, if i use "two treenails per frame per plank" pattern. That is a hell lot of toothpics! But looks like I have no choice.
Sanding cant fix all planking mistakes, if you dont want to have a holes in the hull:
Wide stealer plank is better then two thin straler planks, but worse then a properly precalculated evenly sized planks
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Mike Y got a reaction from fnkershner in 21ft English Pinnace by Mike Y - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:24
Installing final planks. Gaps for remaining plank have a bit different width, so on one side I will have two thin planks based on regular strips, and one other side - one plank made from a wider strip.
Shaped that strip, bit after soaking it obviously become larger and do not fit into the gap anymore. Another illustration why one shoild never glue soaked planks :
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