Syren by JesseLee - FINISHED - Model Shipways - scale: 1:64

[popeye the sailor]

sorry to hear you've not felt up to snuff..........what you've done so far under the circumstances,  is amazing.   to what others have suggested to leave be,  you've gone the extra mile to make them right....your awesome!   I hope there is improvement in your future  

 

 

our youngest just left the nest..........funny,  I was always the one who relied on  'tough love'.    I'll admit..........I miss the little scrapper   while it does leave one with an empty feeling,   we all know that they need to pave their own roads     keep that upper lip stiff my friend!  

[Chasseur]

Will Pray

[Stubby]

JesseLee,

 

I know just how you feel.  I'll be driving my daughter to her new home 1,100 miles away tomorrow to start graduate school.  She already went off to college, but that was only a couple hours away..... twenty hours is going to hit a lot harder!  Hang in there buddy!

 

Stubby

[janet bode]

Hi,JesseLee.

 

                                    This kit arrived this very morning (SYREN) so if you dont mind i shall br scrutinizing your build log with a view to

 

                                    gaining any hints and tips as you proceed.It looks to have a very comprehensive book of instructions good luck

 

                                    with your build.     J Bode

[JesseLee]

Thanks Dirk, Carl, Piet, Denis, Jeff, Stubby, and thanks for your interest Janet, welcome aboard!

 

I got all the brackets on. I decided to change them from red to black. I made the elevation screws. Managed to get 2 pieces of wire through the screws to make 4 screw handles instead of 2.  I tried to get threads on them so they would look like screws but failed terribly and had to give up that effort. Years ago when I worked as a bench jeweler I could have used silver ear ring posts. Wish I had some of them now- they would have looked really good. Anyway, all the carronades are on the sleds & ready to put in place & rigging. I am satisfied with where they sit in the gun ports. Not perfectly centered but close enough for what I have to work with.

 

Jesse

 

[cog]

Looks good, even if you didn't get that thread on. The thickness of the sleds looks good too. Not to thin. You took the right choice, Jesse. Wel done!

 

Cheers

[Mirabell61]

Good work Jesse Lee,

 

those carronades look very good..

 

Nils

[Jparsley]

Great work that's a lot of little canons How are your eyes lol

[Elijah]

Nice job Jesse!

[ca.shipwright]

Jesse,

Beautiful work. Are you using a milling machine or Sheerline for all the close drilling? Or, are you doing this freehand with a pin vise or Dremel?

 

Regards

 

Michael

Edited August 22, 2016 by ca.shipwright

[hervie]

Great work on the carronnades Jesse. You've invested a lot of work in them and it payed off!

[JesseLee]

Thanks everybody!

 

Michael, I am mostly doing it freehand with a pin vice. I do use a Dremel some but for the very close & small drilling I can control it better by hand. I tend to make a mess with the Dremel if it is very small and/or very close. As a matter of fact much of my cutting, sanding, shaping, drilling, etc. is done the old fashioned way- by hand rather than the Dremel. It slows me down a lot but I like the control I have & the "feel" that I cant get with electric power. I just seem to work with it better that way. It probably comes from most of my life not having any kind of power tools and having to do things the old way- totally by hand. I have a two storied pipe rack I built for myself when I was in my 20's that I only used a hand saw, sandpaper, glue and a few nails to build it with.

 

Jesse  

[ca.shipwright]

Jesse,

I used to do furniture building and other macro wood projects. I made 3 foot blanket chest with hand cut dovetails.  A most rewarding project for my wife. I also find the Dremel to "strong" for freehand use. I found more use for it mounted in a drill press or some other contraption.

 

Regards

[Gahm]

Great progress, Jesse! It is quite a mile stone to have all the carronades finished. And they turned out very nicely!

 

Thomas

[popeye the sailor]

I don't use the dremel much either.....the dog hates the sound of it         sweet looking carronades!  

[JesseLee]

Have been making the hooked blocks for the carronade rigging. After making a whole string of them I read about others running into the problem of not enough space between blocks to do the rigging. So I made them all a little smaller both blocks & hooks. This has taken a very long time.

 

Jesse

 

[Chasseur]

Nice work Bro!

[Elijah]

Nice job Jesse! Those should be fun to use, unless you don't enjoy rigging, and if you don't, they will still look great!

[cog]

You didn't take long, Jesse. You took the time you needed for those fiddly blocks and hooks. Those are tiny!!! They look splendid to me ...

[Salty Sea Dog]

Great job on those blocks!

 

I too prefer working with hand tools vs power tools. It allows me to screw up a good piece of wood at a more controlled rate!

[cog]

Great job on those blocks!

 

I too prefer working with hand tools vs power tools. It allows me to screw up a good piece of wood at a more controlled rate!

and you can see  at your convenience how you jam the tool you are working with in your finger(s) or e.g. the palm of your hand

[hervie]

Nice blocks.  I wish I had your patience!  

[Piet]

Very n ice looking carronades JesseLee and not to forget to splendid those splendid miniature blocks!

 

Cheers,

[popeye the sailor]

nice progress Jesse     what size are those blocks......they look small.

Edited September 15, 2016 by popeye the sailor

[JesseLee]

Thanks for all the feedback & the likes everyone.

 

Denis, the blocks are about 3mm long & about 4mm with the hook.

 

I looked in my few books I have to see these blocks. Because the hooks were rigged to the blocks I am now adding some line to the blocks to simulate this a little better.

 

Jesse

 

 

[Chasseur]

Awesome!

[JesseLee]

I got to thinking that before adding and rigging the carronades in place I would rather pre-do a lot of the deck work while they are out of the way. I can just picture damaging some of them trying to work on other stuff all over the deck. I figured I'd make everything, get holes drilled, etc. but not glue anything down until after the carronades are in place. 

 

First thing is the mast holes. Made a paper template to get the right angle from the plans. Used that to make a crude wooden drill guide. Dilled the mast holes very slowly first by digging out a smaller hole with cutting tools then using drills working up in size and checking the angles frequently as I go. This will get it very close but also give me a little wiggle room later on when the masts are installed. Each mast hole had a separate guide built but I only took shots of one to show the process. Now I will move on to the gratings, and other deck fittings.

 

I know, how can I work around such clutter?!?!    Don't know how I do it myself. Every time I clean it all up it ends up right back like this again. It just works for me. Part of my problem is a severe lack of space but I think it would still be like this no matter how much space I had.

 

Jesse

 

[GaryKap]

Hi Jesse -

 

I drilled mast holes too and I am glad that I did.  I just finished the shrouds and I think the job would have been much more difficult if the masts were wobbling all over the place becuse of lack of support.  Your jig should help insure that the mast holes are drilled at the correct angle.

 

Your ship is looking good.  

 

<<Gary>>

[cog]

Clever!

 

 

My workspace, doesn't look much different ... it's what you're used to

[ca.shipwright]

A clean desk is the sign of a very sick mind.