Wintergreen
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Thank you lads! Yes Andy, I too like the lines. Always have. And the cold is done and dusted now as you've guessed B.E. John I think you better keep an eye on you Marmite stock, I'm sending the Admiral down to your side of the globe next week. NZ though, but you never know 😉
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Silly posts or not, it would of course be possible to do the tail piece using a lathe and controlled bed. It would take two clear passes with the dovetail bit. The pins, not so much because you get a rounded inner surface. Anyway, I only have a wood lathe and no usable index table (and no dovetail bit of mini size) so hand tools it is. The coaming came out pretty neat. Here it just sits in it place, not glued in. Two coats of water base matte lacquer applied to the sides. And finally a perspective picture of the build. As usual with all the debris in the background 😄 Pax et bonum!
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Welcome back Mark! It is quite apparent that you enjoy the drawing business. Also, knowing that you are lefthanded means that you probably (but not necessarily) is quite apt at the artistic side of drawing also, and not only the engineering side. (We discussed work benches a long time ago and I envied, still env, your lefthand adapted work bench). Also, I like the reasoning about the false floor in the quarter galleries. It is just on another level of interpreting the original drafts and applying them to a somewhat virtual reality in 1:64. I hope that your nerves get back in working order and so, Keep it up!
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Wow, that is next level stuff right there. Next up we will se frames with intarsia on the walls depicting some well known battle 😄 Keep it up!
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Well thank you Gary @FriedClams 🙂 I totally agree that it is not possible to follow everything here on MSW, there are just too many excellent builds going on all the time. And yes, cancer can really give you mental ghosts to follow you along. But, being in my mid 50's I am focusing on living many years still! Cheers to you too and all the best!
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Very nice planking indeed. And I'm with John and Andy about the stern planking. Flush with the timber. On my build the stern bulges around the prop shaft also. Flush planking gives hydrodynamically benefits of less drag due to the turbulence that step creates. Keep it up!
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That's excellent Tim! What RPM do you get? I found out that higher RPM gives smother work. I have a similar contraption on my wood lathe, probably around the 3000rpm mark with a drum that is about 4" in diameter.
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Yup, it's a good feature that brain language isn't recorded anywhere outside said brain 😄 Very convincing deck, me like. Keep it up!
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Yeah, space and tools... but on the other hand, learning to do it with less is beneficiary to the skill level in the long run 😉 Nice job so far. Keep it up!
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Thanks @Jim Lad, I thought it'd be a nice Sunday challenge 😄 @KeithAug, well, I do in fact own a lathe (for wood), but how that is going to help me turning out coamings is beyond me 😛 Any tips?
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Tool rants and sailing discussions aside, I said I was about to do the rudder. Did I? Erhm, no. After painting the hull a couple of times it didn't appeal to me to do the rudder (too simple). Instead I've opted for somethinge inherently much harder and more complicated - the coamings for all the deck openings! Truth be told, I have never done a fish tail corner in full size and now I attempt them in 1:30.. sane? No, not really. Buth then, amongst the kids I'm not known for being sane all the time 😄 So far, so good I must say. Only about 19 or 23 more corners to do 🙂 And here is my setup with tools to accomplish to work. Now a brake to watch some cross country skiing. Cheers!
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Glad to see an update Henrik! Relocate to Stockholm you say, soon enough we can start a subsidary there with all the Swedes on MSW 😉 😄 A sincere Good luck to your upcoming move!
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Thanks John, yes, it is the Admiral reading fore of the mast and the pretty little blond one is now 20 years old. Still pretty and blond, just older 😉 She's our "baby" with six older siblings (different configurations of hole, half and step siblings, it's complicated 😄 ) Cheers!
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@Mark Pearse, yes, Sweden and the Baltic region is totally shattered with islands and skerries like no other part on the entire globe actually. It makes for quite stunning trips in the archipelago. The Admiral has a sailing friend in Florida, where they only have shallow sand beaches everywhere. To his complete horror we send him films when we sail only meters away from solid rock islands on both sides 😄 My avatar picture is of a ship that sails in the Baltic sea, owned and maintained by a Christian organization. It has been a couple of years now since I last enlisted as first mate on it, but further back I was a regular for about 7 years. Fatigue through work and cancer did its best to take the fun of it for a while. As a first mate on it I was part in everything from sailing to finding the nearest power outlet and so on. Primarily though it is my own sailboat I commandeer. Picture below. It is called OE36 after its constructor, Olle Enderlein. He studied at Sparksman&Stephens in NY and the OE36 is very similar to the more known Swan 36. The Swan is a bit more slender around the waist compared to the OE36. 36 is the length in feet. The first OE36 is from 1969 and mine is from 1980. The Swan predates that with a handful of years if my memory is somewhat accurate.
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Which just brings us further down the rabbit hole... there is a healthy restriction to fabrication with a limited set of tools, power or not. Of course there is a monetary side to it also. It's a matter of prioritization... I will not reveal how much I've spent on my sailing vessel, but it could have with easy bought me the entire Proxxon Micromot line of tools. And I mean the Entire product catalog. But then I wouldn't be able to go sailing, which I love...
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I'm good, thank you. Getting every little detail to match in scale is hard work. I think you've made a sober decision re the dead eyes. Keep it up BE!
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That looks all ship shape to me Ron. Very neat and tidy installation of the guns. And I agree with @CiscoH above here. It looks a bit odd with all cannon pushed out, like when you decide to thoroughly tidy your car in the spring and hav all doors and boots open. Keep it up!
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Thanks Mike! To write it down helps the memory as well. Sometimes it feels like I'd forget my head everywhere if it wasn't attached properly to the neck 😛
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Yes, I think that will work. I did similar with the stern stanchions on my build. Altho that is a complete different kind of boat.
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Oh, oh have we started a tool argument?! Bring it on! "Precision lathes and mini mills and whatnot. All you need is a #11 scalpel. Thats it" 😄😄😄 But agreed, problem solving and thinking out-of-the-box is good for the soul and mind.
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In an attempt to stay somewhat true to the original detailwise, I mused over how to fabricate the coppling between the rudder and rudderstock. Se the picture below. What I came up with I figure is an alternative way to make trucks for gun carriages. For those of us that do not own a precision lathe, that is. How then? Well, I used my bung drillbit, then swapped it for a regular drillbit without moving the stock. Then parted it off with the bandsaw. Apart from the coppling I also used it as bottom support for the rudder. 🙂 This was all for today. Now that the rudder assembly is figured out I can turn my attention to the bitts for the bowsprit. That also includes the bowsprit itself. So back to the plans and software... Yes yes, the measurements are to scale and not real world dimensions. My reasoning behind that is so that I not necessarily need to print them out, but instead just can look at the drawing and fabricate the spar from that. That's all for now, cheers!
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Aha! I have marvelled over these in my shop. Spoon shaped drillbits? Really? I probably knew, back in my mind that they would work. Why else were they made? But still, it defies rationality for the man of the 21st century.
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Probably makes sense, less to stumble on in the darkness down below.
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Looking good Tim! About getting things square or any other intentioned angle, people here utilize jigs for almost everything. Put some time into a jig, make it to desired spec, and then build your piece. Especially if there is more than one item to do, this way is beneficial. Keep it up!
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