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thank you, friends!!

I finished plank of the forecastle:

Your work on the gears of the winch is simply wonderful!!!

I completed the mooring hawsers

Woderful work!!

Hello Ed!

I like very much your little saw!

I'd like to know how you have built it!

Your work is fantastric, as usual!

The gunwale

I moved to the final fixing of the beams of the castle, but before I set the kitchen, the stove and the sill of the bowsprit

tests for positioning the beams

Two little windows:

cook's closet:

The bulkhead which closes the deck and the first beam:

Fantastic!!!!!!!

Continue...:

The cooker for soups:

thanks for your compliments and likes, friends!

.......Do you clean ebony with acetone prior to gluing strakes to the frames?

No. I glued the ebony directly using an aliphatic glue.  

hat kitchen with its fireplace

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I made the  kitchen:

OH!!! The model of my friend Aldo Cappelletti!!!  A great artist and a wonderful person!!

WauW!!

Thank you very much, friends!

Some progress; everything is still only temporary, nothing is fixed

I started the beams of the castle. Before fixing I have to prepare  the tree of the bowsprit to fit in its sill, and the foremast.  I made the bowsprit into four parts; it is a small corvette and I decided to do the same thing for the foremast and mainmast:

The cleat of tree parakeet has to be redone: I realized I had made a big mistake by joining the cross on the wrong side!

What a wonderful work I was missing!!!!  

Fantastic!!