Wintergreen

As the great model maker meeting in Augsburg (near Munich) is approaching, I found it necessary to just knot some of the loose ends together.
  The officer´s hammocks have been prepared already for a long time ...     ... and some more petiteness like a small desk and a chair for Mr Rivers the gunner ...     ... some of the lumber to be seen on contemporary pictures: (under-)deck chairs and packages wrapped in sail cloth.     And immediately we have some homeliness in the smallest confinements  ...             ... and soon all is shipshape und Bristol fashion for coming Saturday in Augsburg :-)   Cheers, Daniel

My Work Areas
 
     I'm very fortunate to have not one but two shop rooms in my condo to build my models.   The front room is where I do most of the construction and the back room is where I work when I'm making tons of wood dust.  Even with this back room I still need to move the Jet dust filter from the front shop when I start shaping the hull with the templates.
 
Front Shop
 

 
 
 
 
 
Back Shop
 

 
     When my next door neighbors decided to redo their kitchen I told them I could put their old cabinets to good use.
 

 
Above photo is a closeup of the sanding drum/thickness jig I made several years back.  It works quite well.
 
Den
 

 
     When I'm not in my shop I spend a lot of time in this room.

I find it interesting...there is nothing in this build log that whatsoever reveal that there is somewhat of a temper involved. On the contrary, you seem to have all the patience, perseverance and endurance in the world when I look your ruler straight deck structure. Meticulously made long boats and everything else.
Inspirational!

I find it interesting...there is nothing in this build log that whatsoever reveal that there is somewhat of a temper involved. On the contrary, you seem to have all the patience, perseverance and endurance in the world when I look your ruler straight deck structure. Meticulously made long boats and everything else.
Inspirational!

I find it interesting...there is nothing in this build log that whatsoever reveal that there is somewhat of a temper involved. On the contrary, you seem to have all the patience, perseverance and endurance in the world when I look your ruler straight deck structure. Meticulously made long boats and everything else.
Inspirational!

I find it interesting...there is nothing in this build log that whatsoever reveal that there is somewhat of a temper involved. On the contrary, you seem to have all the patience, perseverance and endurance in the world when I look your ruler straight deck structure. Meticulously made long boats and everything else.
Inspirational!

I am stunned to realize that I have not posted on this build log for almost two months!  Well, work and life just have a tendency to get in the way.  I have started working on the armament.  There are sixteen cannon on Atalanta.  I will be showing the eight on the port side.  This project has taken three times as long as I had anticipated and is not over yet.  
 
The first step is making the carriage side.  I laminated strips of costello the correct thickness together.  The various steps were milled into the laminated blank.  The curved under-carriage was roughly milled and the filed smooth.  The pictures show the blank from different angles.
 

 

 

 
Holes for the various bolt were drilled while the blank was still intact for stability.
 

 
The remaining parts of the carriage (axles, wheels, bed) were made.  There was nothing complicated about any of these parts.  The front and rear wheels are different diameters. These were turned down on a lathe and then cut off with a razor saw to prevent chipping. 
 

 
I made a very simple jig to facilitate assembly.  On the left side one can see the two size holes for the wheels.  The center hole for the axle was drill by inserting the wheel into the jig.  This helped prevent splitting.
 

 
The next pictures show various views of the partially completed carriages, including various rings, the bed bolt and the wheel pins.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Finally the quoin and the rest of the bolts were added.  The quoins were hand carved.  
 

 

Thank you again, all, for visiting this log and for your comments. 
 
A small update. The corner seats forward of the coach have been made and installed. These were some trouble, and I made three sets before I was satisfied. Running the moulding along the edges where the grain direction changed was difficult, as there was a tendency for tear-out.
 
Instead of wooden standards uniting the thwarts and sides, there are iron straps. On Prince Frederick's barge, the arm of the strap that runs across the thwart is inset flush to the thwart's surface. The side arm is bent as appropriate over the inner sides of the planking. This detail completes the structures in the rowing section.
 
While the model is invertible without risk, I shall be cleaning up the outer sides of the planking and softening the edges of the laps. It is also time to make and fit the gudgeons.

This last week was Spring Break for us.  I took a few days off so I didn't get much done.  I was able make a little progress on the paddlewheel.  They just need the buckets and they will be complete.  Hopefully, this next week will be a little more productive.
 
 

 

 

Work continued with the internal supports.
First I used card to make a template for each support.
 
Then rough cut the blanks on the band saw.

 
Next was a grand premiere for my disk sander...it even have dust extraction...

 
When the mating faces were decent, again off to the band saw to cut the shape.
And continued shaping.

 
After that focus turned to the central candle holder. I had an idea and needed some lumber to fulfill my need.
The oak piece is actually the old samson post from the same boat as the other oak I've used...

 
After some trial and horror (a couple of close calls due to the porosity of the old oak) it looks like this.
It is not yet glued in place. The square base needs some attention even though it will be hidden under sand.

Hi, an update again.
 
Work is progressing rather good now. 
To show that I care for my health since contact cement smells heavily.
I mounted the big sucker (I know, I know, it is called something like dust extractor, not as fun though) on the edge of my work area.
 
The second picture shows the floor glued in place. A bit damp in the picture after wiping off dust.
Next up will be "frames", or more like "L"-shaped side supports.
 
To be continued...
 

 

A while ago I descided to add floors to the hull. Not that it will be visible when on display filled with 3-4cm of sand. But the again, how many builders here on MSW add stuff that will be forever out of sight?
 
The floor boards are 5 mm thick and varying width.
 
I use contact cement to stick to the brown bottom and ordinary white glue on the edges.
 

So, I just randomly clicked the "San Felipe" link in your signature. I must say, every now and again I get dumbfounded of the skill some people show in their logs. It didn't look like much in the beginning with the big chunks of lumber resting on your big table saw. I read a few pages and then skipped to the end...and Wow! What a ship you have build!
Hats off and bow deep!

Well Thank you Carl :-)
 
The light and the image resolution works in my favor to hide all dents, gaps and other short-comings of the build.
Next will be to fashion the square base and finally add some coating. I am thinking of matt varnish to enhance the wood structure.

So, I just randomly clicked the "San Felipe" link in your signature. I must say, every now and again I get dumbfounded of the skill some people show in their logs. It didn't look like much in the beginning with the big chunks of lumber resting on your big table saw. I read a few pages and then skipped to the end...and Wow! What a ship you have build!
Hats off and bow deep!

Well Thank you Carl :-)
 
The light and the image resolution works in my favor to hide all dents, gaps and other short-comings of the build.
Next will be to fashion the square base and finally add some coating. I am thinking of matt varnish to enhance the wood structure.

Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 153 – Ship’s Boats 9
 
Well, time is passing quickly and work on YA’s small boats has been going slowly – much too slowly for someone with my temperament, but the end is in sight.  I am sure that many, like me, will be glad to something new after all these small boat pictures.  This post should just about do it.  In the first picture, the last of the small boats, the 22’ cutter that will later hang from quarter davits, is getting its keelson installed.
 

 
Since this boat will be hung upright, the internals will be visible.  In the next picture some grating that will be used for a floor under the stern seats is being assembled on a spacing template.
 

 
The members of this grating are less than 1½” wide (.020”) on <3” spacing, made from Castelo.  The assembled section is shown below, before sizing and framing.
 

 
The grating was made, for the most part, as shown in earlier posts, or perhaps in Naiad posts, using the milling machine for precision and in this case to slit the milled strips without damage.  The grated flooring can be seen in the next picture where one of the thwarts is being installed.
 

 
In the next picture the boat is ready for painting. 
 

 
The missing wales will be added after both they and the hull are painted.  The next picture shows the almost completed boat.
 

 
All that remains is to add the lettering, the oars, the rudder and some iron hardware.
 
I have not been happy with the grated platforms at the helm, seen in earlier posts, so I took the opportunity to replace them with some grating of the smaller size, as shown in the last picture
 
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Ed

Work continued with the internal supports.
First I used card to make a template for each support.
 
Then rough cut the blanks on the band saw.

 
Next was a grand premiere for my disk sander...it even have dust extraction...

 
When the mating faces were decent, again off to the band saw to cut the shape.
And continued shaping.

 
After that focus turned to the central candle holder. I had an idea and needed some lumber to fulfill my need.
The oak piece is actually the old samson post from the same boat as the other oak I've used...

 
After some trial and horror (a couple of close calls due to the porosity of the old oak) it looks like this.
It is not yet glued in place. The square base needs some attention even though it will be hidden under sand.

So, I just randomly clicked the "San Felipe" link in your signature. I must say, every now and again I get dumbfounded of the skill some people show in their logs. It didn't look like much in the beginning with the big chunks of lumber resting on your big table saw. I read a few pages and then skipped to the end...and Wow! What a ship you have build!
Hats off and bow deep!

So, I just randomly clicked the "San Felipe" link in your signature. I must say, every now and again I get dumbfounded of the skill some people show in their logs. It didn't look like much in the beginning with the big chunks of lumber resting on your big table saw. I read a few pages and then skipped to the end...and Wow! What a ship you have build!
Hats off and bow deep!

Work continued with the internal supports.
First I used card to make a template for each support.
 
Then rough cut the blanks on the band saw.

 
Next was a grand premiere for my disk sander...it even have dust extraction...

 
When the mating faces were decent, again off to the band saw to cut the shape.
And continued shaping.

 
After that focus turned to the central candle holder. I had an idea and needed some lumber to fulfill my need.
The oak piece is actually the old samson post from the same boat as the other oak I've used...

 
After some trial and horror (a couple of close calls due to the porosity of the old oak) it looks like this.
It is not yet glued in place. The square base needs some attention even though it will be hidden under sand.

Work continued with the internal supports.
First I used card to make a template for each support.
 
Then rough cut the blanks on the band saw.

 
Next was a grand premiere for my disk sander...it even have dust extraction...

 
When the mating faces were decent, again off to the band saw to cut the shape.
And continued shaping.

 
After that focus turned to the central candle holder. I had an idea and needed some lumber to fulfill my need.
The oak piece is actually the old samson post from the same boat as the other oak I've used...

 
After some trial and horror (a couple of close calls due to the porosity of the old oak) it looks like this.
It is not yet glued in place. The square base needs some attention even though it will be hidden under sand.

Beautiful work Håkan

So, I just randomly clicked the "San Felipe" link in your signature. I must say, every now and again I get dumbfounded of the skill some people show in their logs. It didn't look like much in the beginning with the big chunks of lumber resting on your big table saw. I read a few pages and then skipped to the end...and Wow! What a ship you have build!
Hats off and bow deep!

Today I got a little distracted and decided the San Felipe needed a captain! I carved him from a tiny bit of basswood... and he is 1:96 scale to match the ship. He's standing on a practice run of planking.
 
First picture shows the unpainted and the second shows the painted.
 

 

 
For reference, I've placed him on a Canadian dime, which is our smallest coin in physical size - 11/16" or 17mm (approximately)