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Looking very nice! You'll see her really start to come together when you do chapter 11.
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Thank you all for the kind words and for all the like's! Chuck, I still have to complete the two aft head timbers. I did remove the lower moulding which should make things easier. It's a tight area to work in. Stay tuned. .
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Work continues with the completion of the cathead rail. A ton of fitting, tweaking and re-fitting in order to get something that I liked. It would be great if one could add the thin outside layers in one piece instead of a splice. Of course that would be more difficult to do since both halves of the rail would have to be glued together first, while matching the shape of the hull at the same time. Anyway, here you go. . Mike
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I've been looking forward to getting the cover boards completed, not necessarily doing them. I had to file down a few of the head timbers or change the angle slightly before I could glue the boards in. I recommend using slow drying CA and not PVA. I also removed some of the moulding under the frieze to make things easier when it's time to fit the lower rail. Anyway, now that they are done I am feeling pretty good about how they turned out. Now its onto the lower rail. Mike
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Well Greg, you have built a beautiful ship and seven years of your work certainly has paid off in spades. Even at 1/4 inch scale, Speedwell is a small ship and you have shown all of us what a master builder can do. Mike
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They are not that difficult to make. . Wet the wood and bend them together or separately while clamped around a curved shape similar to that of the hull. A large can or plastic container works fine. I sometimes use a round table edge like the scroll saw table. The bend always allows for some spring back. Hot heat dry with a hair dryer for a few minutes, and then let everything cool completely. I always make these pieces longer than needed to allow for clamping. Once the spring back is reduced substantially it should be easy enough to shape and clamp them to the hull. Anyway, that's how I made mine on the Winnie. Mike
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FWIW, I agree with David and Greg, Maybe your idea of lowering the profile of the letters would be enough.
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I buy these from https://www.harveytool.com/ These are end mills for plastics. They are not cheap, but seem to work quite well on boxwood. They are long reach too. The end mill I mentioned is # 938931. https://www.harveytool.com/products/tool-details-938931 They will send you their catalog. I usually call them and they direct me to a local distributor to place the order. Harvey tool: 800 645 5609 Mike
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I finished up the second main rail today. More black touch up needed and then onto the head timber cover boards. Mike
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Joe, be careful of doing that as an answer to the problem. There can be huge variations in color within a given sheet, some of which are not that visible. Just place all the strips flat on a table, edge to edge, and then W-O-P all the sheets to see what you've got. I usually hold the strips together with long pieces of tape. A straight edge at both ends holds things down.
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Thanks!! I'm hoping for the good result. Time will tell.
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Hi Rusty, I had the same thing going on with my gun deck planking. I don't think it's absorption that's causing the variance in color, but rather the planks being of a different color to begin with. The degree of color difference would be difficult to see whether you sand the wood or not. The only way I know off to get around this is too apply some W-O-P to the planks before you put them on the ship.
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I'm making slow progress on the head rails. There is a lot more going on here than I thought. I struggled initially to keep things in place with rubber cement in order to view the relationship between the head timbers. Chuck suggested that I could set the center head timber vertical and then work the other two head timbers in such a way that it would look okay to my eye. With that in mind I did just that. After setting the middle timber I could see that the front one could lean slightly forward. I removed the fore end of the template which lies in front of the notch. A thin strip was placed between the back of the head timber and the template to angle the timber forward while at the same time keeping it parallel to the center timber. The aft head timber was angled slightly rearward. I can now use this as a guide for the other side. Btw; notice the position of the main rail in relationship the timberhead on the forecastle just behind it. This worked out okay on my Winnie, though that might be different on your ship. Mike
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