Bob Cleek

OK, imagine we're in the scene from 2001 - A Space Odyssey and I'll play the part of H.A.L. and you (Bob) play the part of Dave. Dave is outside the Pod Bay Door and asking for H.A.L. to open the Pod Bay doors. Only, for our purposes we'll be talking about the Drill Press, stuff Bob mentioned to me about the drill press (above quote) and we'll take it from there:
h.a.n.k. - Bob, all those nasty things you just mentioned to me about the drill press....you know, the quill, and the run out?? Well, those kind of words...those kind of words hurt me Bob!!!
B.O.B. - Well, I'm sorry h.a.n.k., I thought everyone knew about that stuff. I didn't know you were a pancake short of a stack when it came to 'chinery!!!
h.a.n.k. - Your smartass comments regarding breakfast choices don't help this situation, either!!! Here Bob, stand a bit closer in that puddle of water....that's right....now, take this extension cord in your hand....
I guess the Chorona, Chorona has got to me!!! Sorry, but I don't have a quill, I use gel point pens and how far should I run out??? Where .....?? You're talking to someone who has little in the way of tool adjustment, micro-fiddling with precision instruments, etc. And....I don't have a dial test indicator, at least I don't think I do. I'm basically an out of the box tool guy - and hope it works like advertised. So, enlighten me as to what you're looking for and I'll try to find out.
 
Hank

Mast hoops are the loosely fitting bent wood rings to which the luffs of sails are fastened and which permit the sails to be hoisted up and down the masts.
 
An iron ring around the heel of the mast is properly called "an iron ring around the heel of the mast." However, when speaking to landlubbers, sailors call it a "gronicle." Sailors call anything without a name a "gronicle." Lubbers don't know the difference.  

Right out of the box, I'd be interested in knowing the run out, if any, on the quill and on a bit in the chuck on that machine. That's the measure of accuracy. (The slightest run out will start breaking tiny bits.) Slap a dial test indicator on that puppy and let us know!

What a wonderful work of art! The finished model absolutely must have a scale Quasimodo swinging from the bell rope!  

Bob
what is interesting is that the lifeboats were never designed to swing in. They were simply pulled up and let down.  The back deck was covered with a canvas roof making it impossible to do so any way. This was a water taxi moving from bay to bay picking up and dropping people and freight in the life boats. See her in the the picture below .

Yes. It was and still is shipyard practice to reserve select wide planking stock for garboard strakes. In some constructions, the garboard and perhaps the broads are also of thicker planking stock than the rest of the hull.

My thinking on the situation is that the two important strakes for a successful bottom planking are the wale and the garboard.  It is important that the garboard absorb the first part of the arc from the baseline horizontal at the bow and what it can of the excess at the sternpost rabbet ( or arc if double ended).  All this while keeping its outer edge a straight line.  Because of this, I propose that a sacrifice of economy was made and the garboard was often cut from a plank that was often up to twice the width of the other planking stock.  In the spirit of pay me now, or pay me a lot more later.
Given that the seam at the stem-keel-stern rabbets are at the intersection of two different planes of force/flex/stress and failure is difficult to repair, a dinky garboard could be a disaster.

Paper works amazing and is extremely forgiving.
 
Rob

She's certainly coming along nicely! The new davits are much better. The old ones wouldn't have allowed bringing the gig inboard up over the railing. Even now, though, it would be difficult to bring the gig inboard between the width between the davits, although that may just be a factor of the photograph's perspective. 
 
And happy birthday. My 70th was a few months ago. Kind of scary, isn't it?  

What a wonderful work of art! The finished model absolutely must have a scale Quasimodo swinging from the bell rope!  

Spectacular work on your Notre Dame! We need a build log on that one, please!
 
Like many, I'm embarrassed to "show my tools." (Of any kind.  ) Because of the virus lock down and the resulting closure of all the storage rental places. I took pity on a friend that was stuck in the middle of a move and allowed him to stuff all his boxes and furniture in my shop. That was when I thought the "lock down" was only going to be for two or three weeks! My workshop isn't a pretty sight at the moment. 

What a wonderful work of art! The finished model absolutely must have a scale Quasimodo swinging from the bell rope!  

What a wonderful work of art! The finished model absolutely must have a scale Quasimodo swinging from the bell rope!  

What a wonderful work of art! The finished model absolutely must have a scale Quasimodo swinging from the bell rope!  

Except that silicone is the corona virus of finish coatings. Once it gets into the air, it spreads and then settles and thereafter is always there. Microscopic dust specks of silicone will invariably create "fisheyes" in fine paint and varnish finishes and are near-impossible to remove. A work area contaminated with silicone is very difficult to decontaminate. I, too, belong to the "no silicone in my shop" club. "Flaming" thread also works well to eliminate "fuzz" on scale line. Using a proper type of polyester based thread has the same qualities without having to put anything at all on the line.
 
Beeswax works fine

Spectacular work on your Notre Dame! We need a build log on that one, please!
 
Like many, I'm embarrassed to "show my tools." (Of any kind.  ) Because of the virus lock down and the resulting closure of all the storage rental places. I took pity on a friend that was stuck in the middle of a move and allowed him to stuff all his boxes and furniture in my shop. That was when I thought the "lock down" was only going to be for two or three weeks! My workshop isn't a pretty sight at the moment. 

Michael,
I checked photos  of contemporary models at Preble Hall and none of them have caulking between planks on the hull.    That is not to say there are none there, but I did not find any in my collection of photos.    These models are at 1:64 or 1:48 scale.   What scale are you working with?  If you are at 1:98 or thereabouts, IMHO there is no need to show caulking, especially if you have a dark grainy wood like walnut.   Can you post some photos of the models that you found that have caulked hull planks, I am really curious to see what these models look like?   Maybe something to consider for my own future projects :>)  
 
 As to methods of caulking, I prefer black tissue paper, but as you do not want to go that route, Mark's comment is spot on, soft pencil or black marker.  If using a marker, as thin as the second layer of planking normally is on the kits, be careful the ink does not wick into the wood and/or get over the edge.  Test pieces as Mark suggests is always a good idea.
    
Allan

Everyone
 
Due to manufacturing delays from our suppliers because of the coronavirus, we are unable to take new orders for machines requiring a 120v motor.
 
All orders currently in-house will be shipped within the next two weeks.  We do have 230v machines available for our international customers as well as all accessories and blades listed for all the machines.
 
We apologize for this inconvenience.  We have been given a schedule for mid- to end-of June for delivery of the 120v motors.  If they arrive sooner We'll let you know
 
Stay safe,
Donna and Jim

Considering the regrettably low market value of your collection, I would strongly urge you to contact the J. Porter Shaw Library, Fort Mason, San Francisco, (San Francisco National Maritime Park, Golden Gate Recreational Area) (Phone: 415-561-7040) (https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/library-collections.htm) and offer to donate them to their collections. It appears that you have a valuable historic photographic record of this "endangered species" of indigenous working watercraft. I expect they would be very interested in obtaining them. I doubt they would be able to pay for them, but I expect your donation of them would be tax-deductible and your contribution would be a lasting legacy to the work you've done on the subject. I believe the J. Porter Shaw Library, a premier maritime historical research resource, is already the "go to" source for information on the Monterey-type, as it is for the lateen-rigged San Francisco Ligourian fishing boats from which they evolved.
 
 

Harry Dring and Karl Kortum were great guys. I'll never forget Harry's rants when we used to talk about the NPS's inability to recognize the necessity of proper maintenance on the historic fleet they inherited from the original Maritime Museum Karl Kortum and Roger Olmstead built from the ground up. You must be familiar with the J. Porter Shaw Library, then. As you probably know, J. Porter Shaw, its namesake, took a large number of glass plate negative photographs of early San Francisco shipping and waterfront life, the donation of which formed the nucleus of what became the library. You and he were kindred spirits! 

I've just discovered another 100 or so prints. If I don't hear from anyone here, I'll certainly donate them to a maritime museum. When I was a kid just out of high school, I went to work for Harry Dring as a laborer and night watchman at the California State Maritime Historical Monument when The Thayer, the Wapama, and the Eureka were still in Alemeda. In lived in the fisherman's fo'c'sl of the Thayer. I'm also the City Historian of Mt. Shasta, CA. These won't go to waste. 

It looks like it may lack the strength and rigidity necessary for carving.

Considering the regrettably low market value of your collection, I would strongly urge you to contact the J. Porter Shaw Library, Fort Mason, San Francisco, (San Francisco National Maritime Park, Golden Gate Recreational Area) (Phone: 415-561-7040) (https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/library-collections.htm) and offer to donate them to their collections. It appears that you have a valuable historic photographic record of this "endangered species" of indigenous working watercraft. I expect they would be very interested in obtaining them. I doubt they would be able to pay for them, but I expect your donation of them would be tax-deductible and your contribution would be a lasting legacy to the work you've done on the subject. I believe the J. Porter Shaw Library, a premier maritime historical research resource, is already the "go to" source for information on the Monterey-type, as it is for the lateen-rigged San Francisco Ligourian fishing boats from which they evolved.
 
 

Hi all.
Here is my method that I used to follow in the days of MSW-1,
when I was younger and more passionate...
Thx
 

Considering the regrettably low market value of your collection, I would strongly urge you to contact the J. Porter Shaw Library, Fort Mason, San Francisco, (San Francisco National Maritime Park, Golden Gate Recreational Area) (Phone: 415-561-7040) (https://www.nps.gov/safr/learn/historyculture/library-collections.htm) and offer to donate them to their collections. It appears that you have a valuable historic photographic record of this "endangered species" of indigenous working watercraft. I expect they would be very interested in obtaining them. I doubt they would be able to pay for them, but I expect your donation of them would be tax-deductible and your contribution would be a lasting legacy to the work you've done on the subject. I believe the J. Porter Shaw Library, a premier maritime historical research resource, is already the "go to" source for information on the Monterey-type, as it is for the lateen-rigged San Francisco Ligourian fishing boats from which they evolved.