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  1. druxey
    Treenail end grain would absorb moisture and promote rot.
  2. druxey
    Certainly there are plans of deck planking in such volumes as the plates in Steel's Naval Architecture. One can see that the outboard strakes are laid either top and butt or anchor stock where the gun carriages run across. Inboard are strakes that are laid either with three or four planks between butts on the same beam. Strakes are also tapered and curve, rather than the modern parallel and joggled style. A few strakes are laid short with a hook instead. If you are interested, a less expensive volume is the facsimile Rees' Naval Architecture, published in the 1970's. The plates are copied directly from Steel, but at 1:96 scale instead of 1:48. Copies of this useful reference can be found on such sites as abeboooks.com
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    Thanks for your thoughts on this discovery, E&T. I'm looking forward to more pictures and information on the find. The fact that the hatches were battened down and the ship relatively intact is interesting. Does this imply that the ship was abandoned in an orderly manner? Were there plans to return to her? So many unanswered questions - for the moment.
  4. druxey
    Certainly leonine!
  5. druxey
    The news was announced today that HMS Terror has been found in a remote bay near Nunavit. Apparently the wreck is in 'pristine' condition.
  6. druxey
    Very elegant!
  7. druxey
    The pattern you've drawn looks reasonable. However, a real deck was not treenailed: metal spikes were used and the heads countersunk. The hole above the head was plugged with wood whose grain went the same direction as that of the plank. The result was almost invisible.
  8. druxey
    I agree with Ed: the wale should go on first. She's looking very nice indeed.
  9. druxey
    Off to a flying start there! Cherry is pleasant to work with, isn't it?.
  10. druxey
    Yes, horseshoe plates need a little 'persuasion' by hammer on a flat plate after cutting and shaping! Have fun cutting in the recesses for those plates.
  11. druxey
    Lovely looking twins!
  12. druxey
    Looking very good, Maurys! That bluff bow will be fun to plank, assuming you will plank one side? 'Twill be spiling city!
  13. druxey
    Interesting radius turning set-up, wefalck. I've only seen the ones that work in the horizontal plane, mounted in place of a tailstock. Your version makes good sense!
  14. druxey
    Funny, that. I've used the reversed compass point method for decades and simply assumed that everyone else did that as well!
  15. druxey
    Holly is much more amenable to bending than Castillo of the same thickness.
  16. druxey
    Easy does it! It's harder to stick back sanding dust than to take it off.... Looking good, Maurys.
  17. druxey
    Welcome back, wefalck!
  18. druxey
    Nice, but do this under very well ventilated conditions, please!
  19. druxey
    Thanks for the explanation, Steven. Often wood will spring back a bit after bending, so you might consider over-bending the wales slightly off-model, using the plug as a guide. Perhaps that will solve the problem, as well as using pieces over length so that you have something to hold on to while bending. I usually bend 'in air', rather than on a jig as it's easier when working a compound curve.
  20. druxey
    Thank you for sharing the beautifully made precision jigs and tooling that you use, Gerald. They are impressive in themselves, and give lovely results.
  21. druxey
    Sorry about the delay in responding to your post of June 14, but somehow I missed it. The draught must represent the ship as she appeared at the date on the plan. Were the guns added after the date of the lines being taken off? She has sufficient ports pierced for 16 guns.
  22. druxey
    Nice excerpt, Wayne! Thanks for posting this.
  23. druxey
    In the illustrations, it's interesting to note that the forecastles are drawn as small houses or huts with peaked roofs pierced by the foremasts.
  24. druxey
    How are you bending your wales, Steven?
  25. druxey
    Contemporary models I've seen with spars in the waist usually have two spare topmasts. These can be used to replace a broken one (not an unusual circumstance) or to lash as a splint to a damaged lower mast.

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