Pete38

Time well spent. Looks very nice

Knees look great...Keep up the good work

Just a small update. Started doing a little of the sanding...time is getting tight since the warm weather has moved in...Gardens and yard work loom ahead, have to get all the mowers and tractors going taking away from the cross section  

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So here are a few pictures of where I am at.............

Took measurements from the plans and transferred to the frames

Marked each frame for the flat to be sanded

Made up a sanding stick with 100 grit long enough to reach from end to end so sanding would be equal for each frame

Pencil marked each frame to gauge when I had sanded down to make the frames level with each other

Check with a straight edge to make sure was sanding evenly

Also used the keesson to check

Once this is sanded to suit me I will replace the temporary block between the frames with the permenant cherry wood.

So back to sanding and yard work.....

That is a nice stack of wood     

Good start on the keel and stem

Bob

    Sorry to see the beautiful planking needed pulling. Looking at the pictures I still did not see it until I read your latter post, I am sure you will feel better knowing that the planking will now match.

Beautiful work 

Very nice, good to see it posted back

They sure looks great to me!

 

How about making about 80 more for everyone else!

Make mine just a weeee bit bigger please.

Looking good

I agree with Paddy frames looks good. Great start.

Really like the weathering on the decks

Nice progress, like the extra you went on the limber boards, looks great.....

Very nice accomplishment     Frames are looking great.

Welcome to the cross section build. Believe you will have some fun here. Your start looks good.  What types of wood are you using?

Thanks for checking in. All the frames are raised and in place. The next job will be to fair the frames, hope there is enough meat on the frames for this.

Here's a few pictures of my progress to date.

Just had to take it out of the jig to see how it looked. Surprised how strong the frames are already...

Time to start sanding....sanding...sanding....

Very nice, beautiful work. Thank you so much for reposting this great build.

Very nice work and really like the weathered look...

Tony

If you look back to page 3 part way down it show where he drilled multiple nail with needle then cut the end off letting the nail fall out.....neat 

Moved on to the next frame. After the dry fit and checking for squarenss if glued it into place. 

Cut some temporary spacers for between the frames held in place with a drop of hot glue. Will replace with the permenant cherry spacers later

Thats all for now...back to raising frames....

Thanks Russ. the glue was only diluted very little to help run into the hole.

As stated before I am treenailing as I go. Since I am at a larger scale I am going with a larger treenail for holding power than the scale calls for. They are about .047 dia. and 5/8" long.

With 2 per frame at a slight angle (like an X) should provide a strong joint.

Here is the first frame standing on it own

Drilling the holes with my flex shaft on the dremmel

Holes drilled

Next installed treenails with diluted glue

Rusty...Russ....Paddy...Aldo...Sinan  Thank you for looking in and the comments and suggestions. I will be treenailing each frame as I go

So back to the workshop.......picture progress to follow...

Very nice start. Stem looks good. What type of wood are you using for the build?

Very nice start to your build sir. looking forward to more

Very nice work, it looks great , Really like the ships boats.

Very nice on the jib, maple looks good. 

That is looking very nice, like the color of the decks.