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Cooks on gold sell them in the UK that’s where I got mine from. I’m unsure though why you think RPM has anything to do with torque? The motors that Foredom supply are very powerful and I’ve never been able to stall mine. Even at really low speed the power is there and I think mine is an SR.

Hi - I’ve got the foredom drill and although they are expensive it’s probably what you are looking for. It has a foot control so you can go as slow as you like. It also has loads of torque and I cannot compare it to my old dremel. Mark

Fantastic work bitao 👍

I've now started the lamination process and now that I've gone back to the drawings I can see that things are not as bad as I thought. My issue is that I squared off the top of the top transom filling piece but the rest is pretty much all ok. I've checked the rabbet dimensions are they are correct at 2.3mm x 2.6mm but the one thing that I never did was to cut the rabbet corner radius into the wing transom. Now it's very often that I get a lucky win but on this occasion I have, as this radius makes things so much better in terms of the transom pieces all lining up. As you will see in the picture the radius goes about 2/3 through the width of the wing transom. The lamination strip I'm using is just 0.5mm Castello and it bends very easily at this thickness and I only need to build up about 3 laminations to get the correct shape. Cheers Mark

Yea something else for me to think about. I do seem to like making things difficult for myself. I think that lamination of very thin strips will probably be my way forward. I would rather that it looked a bit messy but had the correct shape and it’s going to be planked over anyway. I’ll keep you all updated as to how it goes.

Here's another picture which exaggerates the problem somewhat but probably explains it better. I've also attached a picture of how I marked out the line of the top timbers for those who may be interested.

Hi HH - yes the counter planking should run straight off of the transom fillers into the rabbet on the wing transom. At the moment the planking will hit the wing transom before the rabbet as the filler pieces should be more full towards the stern. I could get away with this for about half way along from the sternpost but then the gap is far too big and does not line up at all.

Thanks for the comments and the likes 👍 Tonphil1960 I'm sure that you will enjoy building this ship! Ok first the good news - the top timbers are now cut and I would like to thank Gerard Delacroix again for helping me understand the drawings correctly. There's a few pictures below and she's looking smart now in fact better than I hoped. Now the bad news - if you've followed my build you will know that I find my mistakes when I need to move onto the next part of the build. So this time it's the transom that I have made incorrectly. When I made these parts I really didn't understand how all of the combined parts of a ship hang and work together to make the whole. I learn by doing things and now I know better for the future but I'm left with a problem right now. The transom filling pieces do not line up with the wing transom rabbet. It's so obvious to me now but it wasn't back then and now I need to fix the issue. I've attached a few photo's for you to see my error and having emailed dvm27 (thanks again Greg) I think I have two options. 1. I can build up the lower transom filling pieces by laminating some wood onto them. I think that this would be best achieved by building up thin layers of wood over a period of time. I have no doubt that this will look pretty bad but I would get the correct shape that I require. 2. I could bodge it by cutting the wing transom rabbet deeper and change the shape of the stern of the ship a bit. I would need to blend the trailing edge of the wing transom into the planking. I could minimise this by using thicker planking at this point in the ship and blend it in as well. As always your advice and thoughts are more than welcome and hopefully I will come to a workable solution. I really need to keep in mind that this ship is and always will be a way into learning ship building skills. Cheers Mark

Thanks HH but it would have looked a little better had they have been slightly smaller. I'm trying to source some cobalt drills for the job for future nailing. So she's faired 👍 This is such a milestone for me as I always thought that when I began this build, if I could get this far I can definitely finish her. It took a while as a decided to fair her completely by hand without using any power tools. I just couldn't take the risk of messing this up and let's be honest how often does a builder actually get to do this job. I did have a one low frame which was the same on both sides. I had obviously made this frame slightly incorrectly which then meant that I chased this low point up about the next 7 or 8 frames to pull her fair. The dogs legs are also now a bit slender but not to the point of weakness. Next time I'll leave more on everything so that I have more to play with. I'm so happy with the way this little ships frame has turned out and its better than I hoped for. I also hope that some of the fantastic kit builders on MSW who's builds I follow who often talk about how they would like to try scratch building see that if I can do this then so can they. So the next job is to mark out the top timbers and cut them to length which will make her look even better. A few pictures below - Cheers Mark

Such beautiful work marsalv - it really leaves me speechless 👍

Thanks Albert 👍

Thanks 👍 Thanks druxey - It was harder than I thought it would be in all honesty! For some reason in my own mind I thought that it would be easier planking the inside of a the hull compared to the outside. I was very wrong. Hi HH - I think we all have different levels of skill but when you know you've not done your best.....well I guess we start again. So I've now completed the nailing as described above. The only change that I made was to make the nails 0.5mm instead of 0.3mm. I had to do this because I just kept on breaking drill bits at the 0.3mm size as I really needed a micro drill tool to do the job. I can't justify buying anymore tools at the moment so I just used what I had to hand. Once I moved up to 0.5mm I didn't break one drill bit. So I think there's about 1000 nails and the one's in the larger parts are 0.8mm in diameter. Its not as subtle as I wanted on the planking but it doesn't stand out too much either so I'm happy with the results. So now the next job is to fair the outside of the hull 👍 I've been looking forward to this part of the build for a long time now and there's a lot to do to pull it straight and fair. I also think that this may be a good time to mark out and cut the top timbers to length as well. If anyone has any thoughts on this please let me know. Cheers Mark

That is absolutely lovely work 😀 I'm planning this ship as my next build so I'll be watching this one. Looking forward to your updates.

Take 2! Well at last I have an update 😀 I just couldn't leave it and I have now had another go at the ceiling. I'm really glad that I did this as I have improved my techniques and I'm much happier with the result this time around. The joints are much tighter than before and the overall look is what I was hoping to achieve the first time around. Removing the work that I had already completed proved much harder to do than I thought that it would. I think this is because I try and completely fill my joints with glue. It just required patience and some acceptance that the frames were going to suffer a little damage no matter how I did it. The next job is to complete the nailing on the ceiling, clamp, keelson and breast hook. The scantlings say that the heads of the nails for the planks should be 1/5 of the thickness of the planks. The planks are 1.6mm thick so that means I require 0.3mm nails. I've found some 0.3mm carbon rod and I've made up a test piece that I think looks ok. Once again thanks for all of the help and encouragement from you all Mark

Quite simply the best customer service ever - when I decided to have my table saw altered to have the larger table I asked Jim if he could please get it back to me in the UK ASAP. I received it back about 3 weeks later so that I could carry on building and at that time we were all in lockdown due to covid. Jim and Donna sent it to me at their own expense and only asked for payment 2 weeks after I had received it back. Now thats real trust and I could not thank them enough!

This really is wonderful seeing this beautiful piece come together - amazing work

bitao - such perfection mate 👍 One day - maybe one day, I'll get somewhere near this kind of quality of ship building. Your work is so inspiring!

Now that I have actually raised frames I can can see just how amazing the positioning of your chocks are. This is inspiring work for me and I'm leaning so much from your build. Thanks Oliver!

Such lovely clean work - nice one James!

Such beautiful work and the inside photos look so real!!

bitao that work is simply incredible!!!

Your CNC skills are just incredible - WOW that figurehead looks fantastic and fits in so well with the rest of the ship.

Hi all and thanks for the comments and feedback. I got this part wrong because I was having trouble seeing the lines of how the planks should run. Funnily enough after the first 6 strakes I could see how it was all forming and also see that I was on the right track. What I didn’t do was put as much effort into the carpentry and the joints of the planks. I want to get this ship as good as I can so that I understand my next build far better and have more confidence that I’ll get it right. It just means I’ll hopefully get another post up in about 4 weeks with an improved fit. If not I’ll accept that’s the best I can do at this point and move on. Mark

I guess so - I chose this ship for my first POF build to learn as much as I could. Although some lessons seem hard to take; for me it’s well worth the effort as I know that I can do better. If I didn’t change this now I know that I would regret it later.

Hi All I've not posted in a while as to be honest I'm finding planking the ceiling difficult. I've now put in the first 7 strakes and I'm really unhappy the way they've turned out. Sanding down at the stemson has really shown me just how inaccurate some of my cuts were. I also think that edge gluing the planks was a bad idea too............so I need to remove them all except of the first 2 strakes. Here's a few pictures of how it shouldn't be done 😂 I've wetted the wood on one picture which shows my errors. Oh well upwards and onwards and hopefully I can improve on this effort. Mark