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Plus it looks cool 😄
 

Nice looking planking, well done. Looks link you’ve got lining well under control. 
I bend all my planks with steam and heat from a travel iron.  Once I converted to Chuck’s planking technique I never looked back. 

Nice looking planking, well done. Looks link you’ve got lining well under control. 
I bend all my planks with steam and heat from a travel iron.  Once I converted to Chuck’s planking technique I never looked back. 

It looks so nice, really well done. Your patience and effort to learn the new skills to make this is quite impressive.  

Surely there’s a way to model the deck without hiding all this amazing below deck detail. 

Next level, quite amazing!

The stem looks so cool on Syren models. 

It looks like a very old kit, the wheel especially.  
 
Amazing how far ship model design has advanced either Chris and Chuck at the forefront. 

It looks like a very old kit, the wheel especially.  
 
Amazing how far ship model design has advanced either Chris and Chuck at the forefront. 

Moving along I've finished the boxing joint and the first parts of the keel.
 
Next I'll add the false keel and the pieces on top of the keel for the rabbet strip.

I finished the deadeyes and deadeye strops this week.  And set a new personal record for the most discarded/rejected parts.  Haha.  I can laugh now, but at the time, it was the height of frustration.  I think to get the 8 usable deadeye strops shaped correctly and mounted, I wound up with an additional 15 or so I scrapped.  Admittedly most of that was trying to get the first couple formed.  Once I had a system down for shaping them, things went more smoothly.  I wound up chipping the paint off some of the chain plates, so had to touch that up.  And I wound up rubbing off the finish of the annealed wire I used for making the strops from handling too much, so had to blacken those again . . . which made a bit of a mess on the deadeyes from blackening smudges coming off of my fingers.  So, I had to re-sand some of the deadeyes to remove that.  All in all not the most fun part of the build.  So, I'm happy that buttons up Chapter 9 of Chuck's monograph, and I look forward to getting away from handling metal and back to working with wood for the next parts of the build!
 
Erik

Nice looking planking, well done. Looks link you’ve got lining well under control. 
I bend all my planks with steam and heat from a travel iron.  Once I converted to Chuck’s planking technique I never looked back. 

Next level, quite amazing!

With all that done it is time to make the boom crutches. These are going to be simulated to be an extension of the fashion piece. Following the manual I first made the stem angle aligned with the fashion piece when viewed from the rear. The second angle is to align with fashion piece when viewed from the side. These are to simulate being one piece with fashion piece. Now the face needs to be looking at the mast and with this done I glued the crutch to the cap rail. Next will be filling the joint and sanding making it appear as an extension of the fashion piece. That said it took two full days and seven attempts to make one. 
Couple of photos from stern and side


Not to sand the top making the last angle toward where the boom would be at rest. Putty and paint. Oh yea I have to make another for the other side.
 
 

Not much to say except the deck is planked waiting for glue to set. Tomorrow I'll sand and scrape if I get that done wipe on poly will be applied. Next is reading the instructions and start with another project.
 

Nice looking planking, well done. Looks link you’ve got lining well under control. 
I bend all my planks with steam and heat from a travel iron.  Once I converted to Chuck’s planking technique I never looked back. 

Next level, quite amazing!

Next level, quite amazing!

Next level, quite amazing!

Nice looking planking, well done. Looks link you’ve got lining well under control. 
I bend all my planks with steam and heat from a travel iron.  Once I converted to Chuck’s planking technique I never looked back. 

Nice looking planking, well done. Looks link you’ve got lining well under control. 
I bend all my planks with steam and heat from a travel iron.  Once I converted to Chuck’s planking technique I never looked back. 

Next level, quite amazing!

Day and night opinions (which is what they are) on this topic, and likely a hundred or so different posts on the topic as a search would show.
 
I ALWAYS use CA for hull planking. Over a dozen models now, some 20+ years old and never had and still don't have any issue with the quality of my planking or its durability. Higher quality CA like Bob Smith Industries, (they aren't all the same) does not have excessive fumes or strong smell. In fact Bob Smith Industries has a version of CA that is odorless entirely. 
 
Bottom line is use what works for you, as it seems everyone replying to this post has.  It annoys me when instead of telling you their preference and reasons for it they denigrate someone else's.  Why not just share why your method works for you.
 
CA works great, it's the right choice for me. I guess other glues must too, but I've never seen reason to try them.

Fenders and Chesstrees
 
Keeping with shorter posts: Added the fenders and chesstrees to the hull.

Each consist of a center and two outer layers glued together providing a nice dimensional look. After removing char the center piece is tapered from top to bottom and the outer edge slightly rounded before the two very thin are added (amazing to have layered wood on this thin a sheet of wood). With great trepidation I removed the center moulding. Then came a lot of careful shaping to conform these to my particular hull - both patience and time are required following the firm rule of  while you can remove wood, you can’t put it back.

I tried printing the frieze on tissue paper, really I tried. While successful the color and texture just weren’t a good match for me, probably the wrong tissue paper or I need more practice doing it. I was however successful using the original paper printed frieze. Ample use of the same glue stick used for the hull softens the paper and allowed me to get a match. With Chuck’s suggested tooth pick approach I was able to guide the paper into the groove created by the three pieces.
 
I also rounded out the sheave on the chess tree before applying the outer pieces along with a little 7mm lead pencil.

I’ve still not mounted the waist cannon, but set them for the photo. The addition of the fenders, chess tree, and ladder really bring the hull alive.  My one regret is while the boxwood for the ladder match, the AYC for the fenders are way whiter than the hull despited several coats of WOP. I kinda wish they had been boxwood as well to match the moulding.
 
I note however, at this point the hull planking is near three years old. I am confident in time the fenders and chess tree, like the hull, will mellow and blend in.
 
I’m moving onto the waists platforms and will finish chapter 11 with the channels. Thanks for stopping by.

Fenders and Chesstrees
 
Keeping with shorter posts: Added the fenders and chesstrees to the hull.

Each consist of a center and two outer layers glued together providing a nice dimensional look. After removing char the center piece is tapered from top to bottom and the outer edge slightly rounded before the two very thin are added (amazing to have layered wood on this thin a sheet of wood). With great trepidation I removed the center moulding. Then came a lot of careful shaping to conform these to my particular hull - both patience and time are required following the firm rule of  while you can remove wood, you can’t put it back.

I tried printing the frieze on tissue paper, really I tried. While successful the color and texture just weren’t a good match for me, probably the wrong tissue paper or I need more practice doing it. I was however successful using the original paper printed frieze. Ample use of the same glue stick used for the hull softens the paper and allowed me to get a match. With Chuck’s suggested tooth pick approach I was able to guide the paper into the groove created by the three pieces.
 
I also rounded out the sheave on the chess tree before applying the outer pieces along with a little 7mm lead pencil.

I’ve still not mounted the waist cannon, but set them for the photo. The addition of the fenders, chess tree, and ladder really bring the hull alive.  My one regret is while the boxwood for the ladder match, the AYC for the fenders are way whiter than the hull despited several coats of WOP. I kinda wish they had been boxwood as well to match the moulding.
 
I note however, at this point the hull planking is near three years old. I am confident in time the fenders and chess tree, like the hull, will mellow and blend in.
 
I’m moving onto the waists platforms and will finish chapter 11 with the channels. Thanks for stopping by.