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  1. Maury S
    Thanks Chuck. First attempt at edge bending. Learning curve! Maury
  2. Maury S
    Completion of the first strake above the wale on the port side. This involved edge-bending the long center plank so I tried Chuck's clamping and heating method. It did not hold much of the bend after 5 minutes with the blow dryer on high. I repeated and let it set for an hour...not much difference, but enough that I did not have to force it too much. I clamped it both against each bulkhead, and also against the wale. The aft-end part of the strake is too short to do much bending so I mark the width and used a ships curve to to get a mild curve to match the run of the wale. It fit perfectly. By the way, after marking the width at each bulkhead and drawing a fair line, I clamp it in the vise and use a very sharp 1" chisel to cut close to the line and finish it off with 100 grit and 150 grit sanding sticks. Maury
  3. Maury S
    Nicely done. Maury
  4. Maury S
    I started the planking above the wales. Tick strips were used to get the width of the planks...both sides line up. The first section of the strake fit well with a little heat from the bending iron. The longer next section will be trickier with the bend over the longer run. If I can't get a good fit, I'll spile the plank. The shadow between the plank and wale is much more pronounced in the photo. Some sanding will smooth it out a lot and the second layer of the wale will also hide it. Maury
  5. Maury S
    Molding was put on with 1/64" reveal and when the clamps came off, there were a lot of "bumps". A fair run is more important to me than a perfect 1/64" reveal, so back to the isopropyl for some adjustments. The port side looks good, but there is still a bump on the starboard. To make the molding fair at the forward gun ports, I set one end, then laid another strip of 1/16" across the top to make sure they aligned well. That came off since it was not glued. Maury
  6. Maury S
    Wales going on. After the first one on the other side went on, I noticed it had slipped up during clamping and had to go to work with isoproply and undo about 10 spots to re-position it. All is well now. After the first strake was set and glue dried, the second went on. No further need for the batten so it came off. I did not bother to bevel the edges since they will be covered up with the second set of wales. I will smooth out the surfaces and run a sanding stick over the top and bottom edges for a smooth transition to the planking above and below. Maury
  7. Maury S
    Inside of the gunports were painted (conditioner and three thinned color coats). I mixed a more "Copper-bottom" red than the one Chuck used...just personal preference on the color. A batten was installed using the lower reference marks, adjusted to a nice smooth run and pinned in place. I marked the height from the base board at several bulkheads and the stem and stern and repeated it on the other side. Even run from all angles. The bow-on shot looks like they may be a bit off, but the camera is tilted a ever so slightly. Both measure the same. Maury
  8. Maury S
    I used some 1/16" basswood to build up the stern frames so there is a 1/16" notch per Chuck's instruction. I dampened the short pieces and bent them with my bending iron, then glued them in place and after 24 hours, faired them. I'll spend some time tomorrow checking the fairing of the bulkheads from every angle. It seems painting the inside of the ports is next, then on to planking. Maury
  9. Maury S
    Thanks Chuck. It was over sanding!! I intentionally sanded it down. Easy enough to build back up. I've done plenty of that. Maury
  10. Maury S
    Sills and lintels are in and faired. Square tuck installed and fillers behind are faired. I'm not sure yet how the planking will lay at the intersection of the stern and square tuck. Some more fairing of the last bulkheads may be in order. Maury
  11. Maury S
    Installing Sills and Lintels in the stern...The sills and lintels need a very slight bevel so I used my Miter-Sander with the 1 degree block. Flipped over for a parallel bevel on the other side. The starboard sill went in first, carefully measured position from the plan sheet (about 1'32" above the knuckle of the frame). I used a long beam set on a block well forward so the sill (fore and aft) would be roughly parallel with the deck and the port and starboard sills would be the same. Clamped and waiting to dry. Once both sills were in, I used a 25/64" block (the inside measurement of the ports) to set the height of the lintels. Maury
  12. Maury S
    thanks Chuck, I see now that the inside is not planked. Maury
  13. Maury S
    Stern frames going in. After sanding down the outer frames (ZZ) to be fair with the side frames, I started on the inner stern (X) frames. Knuckles at the correct height and the spacing between them being set by using a block between them to maintain the proper spacing. Next, the Y frames go in, with spacers for the width of the gun ports. The numbers on the blocks are 100ths of an inch in width. Next will be the sills for the gun ports. That will stabilize the X and Y frames. I don't see why I shouldn't put extra blocking between the X frames and Z and ZZ frames. It will just tie everything together better. When the clamp is removed and the blocks fall off, there is a nice bend to the stern. It will be nice when faired! Maury
  14. Maury S
    Chuck, Re. the horse shoes, straps, etc. What is "Laser board"? Are you going to offer this as an extra? Rapidly approaching a "Kit". Maury
  15. Maury S
    Chuck, I assume your horseshoes and butterfly pieces let-in to the keel. It looks great. Maury
  16. Maury S
    Ed, She looks great. I'm surprised there is so little availible light in the cabin. No side port holes back there, so just a skylight? It's amazing the relatively small rudder size considering the rudders on today's boats. Not much considering the size of the ship. Maury
  17. Maury S
    I used a steel rule to measure the height and tilt of the frames "Z". Held in place while the glue dried. Then the outer parts ("ZZ") were glued on. A large amout of these frames will be sanded down to get the right shape of the stern. There will likely be a lot of stress in the sanding so they will set for 24 hours before I go at them. Maury
  18. Maury S
    Measurements to determine the placement of the stern frames: The horizontal spacing is straight forward from the stern framing plan. Vertical spacing is a bit more of a challenge. The height above the building board to either the frame knuckles or top of stern frames are the obvious points of reference. Since the keel is curved I needed to find a line from the bottom of the keel (BOK) at the dead flat to the BOK from the stern frame. I cut out the stern frame plan and re-positioned it next to the end of the frame side elevation. See picture. By aligning it horizontally with the top of stern frames or top of bulkhead extension at BH #16 and taping in place, you will see the BOK is lower than the BOK at BH #16. I ran a line from the BOK at dead flat to BOK on the repositioned stern plan. At the aft end of the keel, the BOK is about 3/32" above the line just drawn. That's the amount of curve in the keel. I made a shim 3/32" and stuck it to the BOK at BH #16. With the skeleton back on the building board, and clamped down on the shim (and at dead flat) and plumb, I can accurately measure from the building board to the knuckles of the stern frames (about 4- 5/16"). To make sure the outer stern frames (Z) are tilting in per plan, I ran a line parallel to the inner-most frame to the line described above. See second picture. I measured from center line to the angled-line intersection and marked that on the building board. Holding my steel rule to the inside of the frame, touching the building board shows if any tilt adjustment needs to be made....or you can just eye-ball all of the above. It took more time to write this than do the measurements. Maury
  19. Maury S
    I cut the stern pieces on my scroll saw. The "Z" and two of the "ZZ" pieces were cut from 1/4" stock, the "X" & "Y" from 1/8". I cut and test fit all the pieces, not just "Z". They all inter-relate. Most of the notches in the bulkheads The angle of fitting is important for "Z". Any minor variation in the notches on the last two bulkheads makes a big difference in ultimate top of the stern frames. They are in roughly, but I need to make a bunch of measurements to confirm angles and heights. Maury
  20. Maury S
    Sills fairing is done on the outside. One warning. I did not remove all the pattern paper from the face of the bulkheads before gluing in the sills. That creates a weak joint and a few failed under the stress of sanding. Make sure the pattern is removed before gluing. I started to fair the top of the bulkheads that create the deck beams. There were some low spots in the back, so I glued on some 1/32" basswood strips and then faired the deck before I add the stern pieces. Maury
  21. Maury S
    Ports roughed-in. I made a block 17/32" wide representing the size of the port openings. I put the thinner of each vertical in place on both port and starboard. Then I used the block at each port to determine the thickness of the remaining verticals. Any slight variations in size of verticals was made up in the thicker piece. Lots of bits and pieces from the scrap bin. Chase ports were cut with a razor saw and finished off with a coarse flat rifler file and then 150 grit sanding stick. They all need fairing now. Maury
  22. Maury S
    More work on the port sills. The sills require beveling in two dimensions. The ends have to be mitered (sides) so they fit between the bulkhead uppers, but they need an additional bevel in vertical plane where the sill rises following the shear. I use a Miter Sander. It comes with three sanding blocks with angles from 0 to 8 degrees. Here I'm putting a 4 degree bevel on one end of a sill. The other side gets a similar bevel on the opposite edge so they are parallel. They get inserted between the uppers following the new modified reference lines drawn on the bulkhead uppers. You can see the grain on the boxwood, which is a big disappointment with the quality of wood I got from Lumberyard. It won't matter in this spot, but where it's visible, I'm going to go to with Crown for my next buy. Maury
  23. Maury S
    Continued work on the fair lines for the port sills. Today I had trouble attaching the photos in the order I wanted. (The second picture is the jig I use to hold her while I'm working.) One strip of wood is glued to the plexiglass base, the other is loose and connected with bolts to tighten the keel in the jig. Very basic. The first shot shows two machinist squares being used to make sure the spine is held plumb. Measurements from side to side are now possible. I checked the height from the base to the top of the battens at the back side of the fore bulkheads and the front side of the aft bulkheads and made sure the stbd. side matched the port side at every intersection. Once I was happy with the lay of the battens, a thin pencil line was run across each bulkhead at the top of the batten, creating "modified" upper reference lines. Maury
  24. Maury S
    I was thining they should line up square to the outer planking like the ports in the front. It is sure easier to just leave the inner edges parallel to the bulkhead extensions. Once thinned down, it probably doesnt matter.
  25. Maury S
    One more question. Should the port uprights be beveled so the openings are square with the outer planking rather than square to the keel? Maury

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