kruginmi

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

Hi Mark,
 
I see you`ve been quite busy modeling Fitting out assemblies in the last days, it Looks fantastic..., all clean and exact
 
Nils

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark
 
 

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

Well done Mark - she looks terrific. Looking forward to the figurehead after you've had your break.

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

Good on  you for the break. You deserve one as this is a beautiful model.

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

Awesome work Mark.. you are nearly there !!
 
Stay Well
 
Eamonn

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

Absolutely gorgous work on her.
 
 
MIke

I am just rolling along.  In a couple more hours I banged together the wheel stand and got the tiller rigging all set.
 

 
This is a big milestone for me given that the figurehead is the only item remaining.  I am currently sitting back and giving myself a break.
 

 
Maybe clean up the workshop a bit (hah, hah),
 
Stay Building my Friends,
Mark

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark
 
 

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark
 
 

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark
 
 

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark
 
 

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark
 
 

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark
 
 

Time for that last piece of deck apparatus - the Ship's Wheel.
 
I didn't take a lot of pictures (getting caught up in the moment) but this worked out a lot more straight forward than I had feared.
 

 
For the outer ring I used a 7/8" forstner bit to drill out the inner hole on an oversized piece of boxwood previously sanded to thickness.  I nibbled away the outside excess on my Byrnes saw using a sled then switched to the circular sander for the finer rough in.  Finalized with hand sanding.  The inner ring was turned on the lathe along with the associated drum.  The next pic is of a prototype drum that was replaced with another:
 

 
For the spindles I opted for a size equal to the carbide blade width of the Byrnes saw.  So after marking on the outer ring the spacing of the ten spindles, I set the height of the blade to this depth and made five passes through the ring leaving a small ring of wood to keep everything together.  The same thing was done for the inner ring.  After complete it was quite easy to glue in the spindles:
 

 
I kept the spindle blanks as one piece over the entire ring (two spindles) to make shaping easier.  After completing shaping I cut off the connecting piece to make two separate spindles.  The inner hole for the axle was made after all the spindles were complete.
 

 
I was very happy to take the following pic of the wheel essentially complete:
 

 
Now I need to make the stand for it then attach to the deck and rig.  Hopefully by the weekend.
 
Stay Building My Friends,
Mark