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I've heard of the McNarry book and have tried to buy it. That guy would sell his models for a hundred thousand dollars! 

Omega, complements on your Hereshoff sloop! I'm thinking to start making smaller models after I finish Annie, and your stuff id definitely an inspiration. Do you know of any good books with techniques for working on small scale stuff like you do?

So today I started gluing and fairing the forward bulkheads. I put in some wood supports to align and strengthen them. These supports are going to be important once I continue to put in the rest of the bulkheads in, because I'll need to drill out the original keel in order to have room for the daggerboard to slide through. I've also worked on the daggerboard itself, so that I can gauge how much room I'll need when I drill out the keel.

Eamonn, here is a picture of my plane. It's like a normal wood plane, but small. I made some mistakes in my lofting- small things that are obvious once you see the thing actually cut and put together.

Yeah, I came across that model in my research, and it will definitely help show some of the rigging and metalwork that you can't see from the plans.

Oh, lofting isn't as hard as it looks! 

Well I was a bit concerned about the resolution and whether the laser would cut too much, but luckily it seems that the line was fine enough to not be too much of an issue. And Michael- I've been following your pilot cutter for ages and it's one of the most beautiful projects on the site! I definitely thought of it when I decided to build Annie.

So I live in Tel Aviv (I'm originally from the States) and there was a carpentry shop with a laser cutter run by a very nice girl. She did a few tests and got the settings right, and honestly the parts came out beautifully and the resolution was very good. I cut both 1mm and 3 mm plywoods, and even had some delicate decorative moulding for the daggerboard housing that came out very beautifully. So far the only problems were from boneheaded mistakes I made! 

Thanks!

Thanks for the warm welcome! Honestly the lase cutter is an amazing tool, and it was a really interesting process to loft all the bulkheads in Illustrator- It gave me a real understanding of how everything fits together,

I have started by carving the keel. It is made of walnut. I carved out the correct shape by gluing a pattern from my Illustrator plan, and carving it with a miniature plane. This is an amazing tool and I cannot recommend it enough. 

Hi everyone! I am about to embark on my first scratch building project. Having completed the MS Fair American kit, I decided to look for an interesting yet manageable project to try out for my first scratch build. So about a year ago, browsing this site, I came across pictures sandbagger models from the Mystic museum. It was love at first sight. Sandbaggers were originally oyster dredging vessels from New York, and later evolved into racing craft with huge sail areas. Their unusual wedge shaped catboat-type hull and their enormous sails supported by a graceful curving bowsprit and boom outrigger seemed unlike any rig I have ever seen. I did some research, and found out that the sandbagger Annie was part of the Mystic Seaport collection, and was indeed the collection's first vessel! So after many phone calls and much hard work on the part of the lovely folks at their visitors' center, I managed to get the plans to the Annie. I scanned them, and proceeded to spend the last few months planning and tracing out the shapes of the bulkheads and other parts in Adobe Illustrator. Just yesterday I finally went to the laser cutter and got the parts cut in plywood. I am now ready to begin! I have dry-fitted the bulkheads to the keel, and although they mostly fit perfectly, I am discovering loads of mistakes and things I forgot to plan for. So here's to a happy build, and I would love for y'all to follow along as this build progresses.

Eitan

Excuse my ignorance, but what do styles and rails mean in this context? 

How does this apply to solid wood? And isn't all plywood laid with alternating directions of grain? That's what gives plywood its strength, no? In any case I was just thinking of getting 3mm Micro Lite plywood, I've bought some of their thinner plywood and it looks like high quality stuff...

Thanks! Do you know any good sources online to buy some?

I'm about to start a scratch-building plank on bulkhead project, and I was wondering if it would be better to use milled wood or plywood. I'm concerned both about warping, and about exactness of the thickness of the wood I end up using. Also, what about outgassing or warping of plywood?