WBlakeny

After the keel story i'm not so fond of using pins to hold my planking anymore. So i'll be following Clay's instructions and make some friction clamps. You can see them already in action in my previous post. It's only purpose is to slide it over the bulkheads in order to hold the plank in its place.
 
I prepared a scrap piece of plywood for two such clamps, as a test. The bulkheads are 3.15 mm, so i milled a slot of 3 mm. 
 

 
Then i milled a recess in the front part of the clamps. 
 

 
Using the scroll saw i separated the two clamps
 

 
Testing the clamp, it works like a charm, but i'm thinking it needs a bigger recess.
 

After the keel story i'm not so fond of using pins to hold my planking anymore. So i'll be following Clay's instructions and make some friction clamps. You can see them already in action in my previous post. It's only purpose is to slide it over the bulkheads in order to hold the plank in its place.
 
I prepared a scrap piece of plywood for two such clamps, as a test. The bulkheads are 3.15 mm, so i milled a slot of 3 mm. 
 

 
Then i milled a recess in the front part of the clamps. 
 

 
Using the scroll saw i separated the two clamps
 

 
Testing the clamp, it works like a charm, but i'm thinking it needs a bigger recess.
 

Now that we've been back from holidays a couple of weeks I thought it was about time I posted an update on the 'Francis'.
 
All the deck beams are now in place , so the next job will be to give the frames a final external fairing and then I can start work on the planking battens.
 
I hope to be getting a bit of extra time at the museum over the next few weeks, so hopefully there'll be a bit more progress before long.
 
John
 

 

 

 

Last night, I found a good tape to work with for the spilling, scotch Magic tape .
 
Then with a pencil i gently mark the edge of the prior planking run. 
 

 
The result is a plank on which i only had to do some minor tweaking for the perfect fit. 
 
The result underneath, while letting it dry on the hull after soaking.
 

 
I'm so happy, I got a plank right from the first time! Hopefully it wasn't just beginners luck. 

Last night, I found a good tape to work with for the spilling, scotch Magic tape .
 
Then with a pencil i gently mark the edge of the prior planking run. 
 

 
The result is a plank on which i only had to do some minor tweaking for the perfect fit. 
 
The result underneath, while letting it dry on the hull after soaking.
 

 
I'm so happy, I got a plank right from the first time! Hopefully it wasn't just beginners luck. 

Chris,
You are officially my hero. That was an excellent come back from what would have been thought a total disaster. It has happened to me before and it really scared me to think I would have to start everything all over again. Great job Buddy.
 
Ray

Nice recovery Chris, and a great job laying out the planking.
 
Michael

With all that corrected, we're back in business for the planking job.
 
Last night i glued another plank in its place. The last plank of the first belt. It sure is very time consuming, but i like to do it.
 

 
 

Finally, i'm at the planking stage! 
 
I've never been able to do some nice planking without the need to conceal it with paint 
So, i decided i wanted to try out for the first time, to plank with the method Chuck described using the planking fan.
 
First prepare everything. 
 
I calculated the number of planks midships. It's something above 12 (don't mind the number on the calculator in the photo beneath, it's got the wrong calculation) So i'll have 4 belts of three planks. The garboard strake will be a bit larger than the normal planks.
 

 
In then took 3 pieces of a plank and glued them on a piece of paper. 
 

 
With that i marked the positions on the midships frame for each belt. Then i took some tape from which i cut off long strips. With one such strip i divided the hull in two, starting from the mark on the midships frame.
 

 
Afterwards i dived each belt again in two, making sure that there's never a space which is less then half the space i've got on the midships frame.
 

 
On the last belt at the stern at i'll have to insert a stealer or make a larger garboard strake. 
 

 
 
I then carefully copied the positions of each belt to the other side.
 

 
Still need to do some tweaking at the bow, but i'm almost there.
 

With all that corrected, we're back in business for the planking job.
 
Last night i glued another plank in its place. The last plank of the first belt. It sure is very time consuming, but i like to do it.
 

 
 

True, it's not the end of the world (or at least for my little corsair). I was lucky that it snapped off cleanly. Now, i didn't want to simply glue it back in place, i wanted something stronger.
 
The keel being only 3mm, i thought about using pins to dowel it.
 
First i drilled the hull at several places.
 

 
Then dry fitted some pins from which i cut off the heads.
 

 
To locate the places to drill on the keel, i used 0,5 mmm (which is the same the diameter as the pins) lead pencil for a refillable lead pencil.
 

 

 
They were cut rather short to the hull.
 

 
After that i pressed the keel back to its place and the pencil did its job, marking the places to drill.
 

 
Next thing, drilling the wholes in the keel. 

 
Some months ago i bought something very usefull for a task like this.
A footswitch, first time i tried it and i immediately wondered why i never thought of this before. So handy...
 

 
Glueing the pins in place with CA. And then glueing the keel with some woodglue, using the clothing pins to make sure the keel is right aligned to the hull.
 


 
The result, all firmly back in its place. The only scar to see is right above the rabbet. 
And since this will be covered by the planking, i was very lucky.
 

just a bit of fun

some work on the stern
 

thanks all for your comments, appreciated, managed to finish the shield, here`s the pics

Oops, I missed one.
In this work, I'm using black colored bond
to emphasis the bonding line
because normal bonding line is almost invisible.
Black bond is made by mixing small amount of carbon black into normal white glue.
How about the result?

Thanks.....  That is still the plan.  As soon as I complete the exterior planking with the square tuck and write the first few chapters of the monograph (which will be posted on my site as a free download)   the plans will be released.

Thanks for the likes and comments. 
 
Finally... happy dance time again.  At least a small one..
 
It took me several tries but the top transom is done and in place along with the stern timbers.   I used some pen blanks as I didn't have any stock of cherry, boxwood, or pear thick enough.  The final ended up in yellowheart.  Thankfully, it will hidden by the planking. 
 
I cut the curve (which doesn't quite match the deck camber per the plans) on the top and bottom.  Spot glued the waste back on and then the cut the curve of the stern.   A soak in alcohol and the piece emierged.   Notches were cut into the timber for the deadwood and frame timbers.  Everything was then finessed into postion per the plans.  The photos I contrast corrected helped a lot.  Then the stern timbers were cut and matched to size and finessed into position.   The further outboard the timbers go, the longer they get.     I've checked and rechecked as these two bits are critical to the stern being right. 
 
I still have a lot more work in this area, but at least I know I won't be scrapping this one out because the stern was a hopeless cause.  Just a small amount of fairing needs to be done before planking but I feel the rest of the framework should be added first to give it some strength.  Those timbers are bit fragile as they are now.
 
Here's the pics.   Sorry, I forgot to take pictures of the process.  As always, you click on them for enlargement.  
 

 

 
 

Nice fix, Chris.  Sometimes when things go wrong and hit the floor, we get lucky and the damage is hidden.  Yep, been there, done that, and have the T-Shirt.

With all that corrected, we're back in business for the planking job.
 
Last night i glued another plank in its place. The last plank of the first belt. It sure is very time consuming, but i like to do it.
 

 
 

True, it's not the end of the world (or at least for my little corsair). I was lucky that it snapped off cleanly. Now, i didn't want to simply glue it back in place, i wanted something stronger.
 
The keel being only 3mm, i thought about using pins to dowel it.
 
First i drilled the hull at several places.
 

 
Then dry fitted some pins from which i cut off the heads.
 

 
To locate the places to drill on the keel, i used 0,5 mmm (which is the same the diameter as the pins) lead pencil for a refillable lead pencil.
 

 

 
They were cut rather short to the hull.
 

 
After that i pressed the keel back to its place and the pencil did its job, marking the places to drill.
 

 
Next thing, drilling the wholes in the keel. 

 
Some months ago i bought something very usefull for a task like this.
A footswitch, first time i tried it and i immediately wondered why i never thought of this before. So handy...
 

 
Glueing the pins in place with CA. And then glueing the keel with some woodglue, using the clothing pins to make sure the keel is right aligned to the hull.
 


 
The result, all firmly back in its place. The only scar to see is right above the rabbet. 
And since this will be covered by the planking, i was very lucky.
 

With all that corrected, we're back in business for the planking job.
 
Last night i glued another plank in its place. The last plank of the first belt. It sure is very time consuming, but i like to do it.
 

 
 

True, it's not the end of the world (or at least for my little corsair). I was lucky that it snapped off cleanly. Now, i didn't want to simply glue it back in place, i wanted something stronger.
 
The keel being only 3mm, i thought about using pins to dowel it.
 
First i drilled the hull at several places.
 

 
Then dry fitted some pins from which i cut off the heads.
 

 
To locate the places to drill on the keel, i used 0,5 mmm (which is the same the diameter as the pins) lead pencil for a refillable lead pencil.
 

 

 
They were cut rather short to the hull.
 

 
After that i pressed the keel back to its place and the pencil did its job, marking the places to drill.
 

 
Next thing, drilling the wholes in the keel. 

 
Some months ago i bought something very usefull for a task like this.
A footswitch, first time i tried it and i immediately wondered why i never thought of this before. So handy...
 

 
Glueing the pins in place with CA. And then glueing the keel with some woodglue, using the clothing pins to make sure the keel is right aligned to the hull.
 


 
The result, all firmly back in its place. The only scar to see is right above the rabbet. 
And since this will be covered by the planking, i was very lucky.
 

With all that corrected, we're back in business for the planking job.
 
Last night i glued another plank in its place. The last plank of the first belt. It sure is very time consuming, but i like to do it.
 

 
 

Time to put on the wales. I first glued the wale on one side.
 

 

 
I then copied the location of the wales with paper templates from the keel to the other side. 
And rechecked with an adjustable waterline marker between both sides.
 
Afterwards pins were pushed on the spots just beneath where the wale should come.
 

 
And installed the wale above those pins, using them as a guideline.  I made sure with the help of modified wooden clothing pegs (don't let the admiral know) that the wale is pushing against the pins.
 

Disaster!
 
While pushing in a pin to hold a plank in place, i used to much force on the keel. It snapped off all along te rabet and the joints.
 
I must take a mental note to always dowel the keel on future builds.
 

 
I gently putted the model aside, and didn't look at it for more then a week or so.