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Mike Y,

As Yamsterman said; all wood oxidizes over time. Some slowly some fast. Example: If you had a block of Pink Ivory - 5cm x 20cm x 20cm. After about 10 years the outside layers have lost its pink lustre and the wood is light brown almost sand in color. If you sand off 2mm on all 6 sides the block will be light pink again. The more you sand off the darker the pink color.

 

I have done this with walnut but the model I built with this wood has been in a display case for about 4 years and the light in the living room has somewhat faded the wood.

 

If the wood has been properly dried the pink will last. But generally ALL wood fades. UV rays is the enemy of this.

 

Most of this information comes from a book I have on Arboriculture.

 

Marcus

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HI ALL

TIME FOR ANOTHER PROGRESS REPORT.

 

LOWER DECK HAS BEEN FINISHED AND INSTALLED ALONG WITH TILED HEARTH FOR THE SHIPS STOVE.

TREENAILS HAVE BEEN FITTED.....IVE GONE WITH SOME 0.38MM MONOFILAMENT IN BLACK FOR THIS AS ONCE THE MAIN DECK WITH ALL THE CARLINGS AND LEDGES ETC HAS BEEN FITTED ANY TREENAILING WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO SEE.

IT LOOKS A BIT HARSH AS WE SPEAK .......BUT WE SHALL SEE.

 

PUMP WELL AND SHOT LOCKERS CONSTRUCTED BUT NOT YET FITTED.....IM WAITING TO CONSTRUCT THE HINGES AND STOVE PLUS RUDDER PINTLES AND GUNPORT HINGES ALL AT THE SAME TIME.....A SORT OF MAD BRASS BINGE.

 

UPPER LIMIT OF WALE STRAKE HAS BEEN MARKED AND SOME PIECES OF EBONY EDGE BENT TO THE APPROPRIATE CURVE.

FIRST TWO PIECES ARE WAITING TO HAVE THIER HOOK SCARPHS FORMED PRIOR TO INSTALLATION.

THESE WILL RUN FROM FRAME 2 AFT TO FRAME O FORWARD PORT AND STARBOARD.

 

IVE ALSO HAD A COUPLE OF DAYS BASHING METAL......THE RESULTS ARE ENCLOSED BUT ARE NOT QUITE FINISHED YET....STILL WAITING FOR THE FINISHING TOUCHES TO ARRIVE.

 

CHEERS........MICK

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Mick:

I too love the hearth tiles.  The little "C" clamps are beautiful.

Kurt

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hi kurt

tiles have worked out quite well......look even more terracottery with a coat of varnish.

 

the c clamps were inspired by a couple of clamps i brought from a german company called dictum.

lovely clamps ,beautifully made....and £8 each!!   there also a bit bigger and a lot heavier hence making my own.

so 12 clamps would be   £96 plus postage................instead £18 for a 6 inch piece of 1inch brass channel  with a 1/8" wall thickness plus a couple of quid for some m3 studding and some thumbnuts in stainless............and a bit of metal bashing!!!

all the work was done on the proxxon mill,tapped by hand and hand polished.

just waiting for some non serrated m3 stainless nylock flange nuts to finish them off.

 

just started to fit the first pieces of the wale.

 

cheers.....mick

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hi carl

thanks!!  lots more to do yet......some miniature blacksmithing to do with the hinges.......and an attempt to make the stove entirely from soldered brass and them chemically blackened........whilst im at it i may as well make the rudder pintles and gunport hinges.....and anything else made from metal!!!!!

 

how many c clamps would you like? may have to order some more brass!

 

cheers.....mick

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Mick:

At last night's meeting of the local Nautical Research & Model Ship Society of Chicago I showed your build log photos of the pink ivory "tiles" to the group and Marc gave a short presentation about the wood's properties - from a botanists perspective - it's availability - and cost!   WOW really expensive here!   Your photos really looked great projected onto the screen - seen much larger than life size.

 

The group thought the finished hearth was magnificent and that the pink ivory was the perfect choice for the tiles.

 

Take care,

Kurt

Kurt Van Dahm

Director

NAUTICAL RESEARCH GUILD

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SAY NO TO PIRACY. SUPPORT ORIGINAL IDEAS AND MANUFACTURERS

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hi kurt

wow!!!.....feeling somewhat humble!!

glad the guys at the meeting liked my humble efforts.........hopefully too many warts didnt pop out with the photos being blown up so large!

 

stiles and bates is a good source of pink ivory here in the uk.

 

generally available as pen blanks approx 3/4"  x  3/4"  x  6"  

 

or as spindle blanks  1" x 1" x 12"

 

the last piece i brought was a couple of months ago, along with a few other bits and pieces , and cost £4.80 for a spindle blank.

 

not sure if they would ship to the us and how much it would cost.......there are i believe certain restrictions on some species of exotic timber being imported into the us.

 

cracking on with the wale strakes as we speak

 

cheers....mick

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HI ALL

WALE STRAKES ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FITTED.

EASY ONES ARE ON......JUST WORKING ON THE AWKWARD SO AND SO'S.

 

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hi wackowolf

no soaking or steam req. this is 3.2mm or 1/8" thick ebony you would think that you would need to soak/steam/boil for hours to get it to bend.

 

after seeing chucks video of heat bending on his cutter log i decided to see if it worked on other timbers......it does!

 

the curve of the wale was taken of the draft and an improvised bending jig made.....ebony cut to the right width was clamped at one end and heated with a hot air gun on its lowest setting....about 450 watts.....and the timber was gently persueded up to the stops on the jig and clamped the other end.

 

leave it to cool for 1/2 hr or so and release the clamps........one nicely curved piece of ebony.

 

the same for inducing a twist......clamp one end in the vice........grab the other end with some meaty pliers......heat the timber.......and GENTLY twist in the direction you want......remove heat whilst still holding the plank with the pliers......let cool for a minute or two.....then release the pliers........the twist sould then be set.

 

this can be done with a previously edge set plank and you can then put in a curve to go round the bows for example.

 

three dimensional plank bending in stages with no messy water/ammonia/alcohol.....and once its bent it stays bent.

 

not my idea ......musical intrument makers have been using heat to bend ebony for decades probably even centuries

 

cheers.....mick

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Hm! Amazing bending, will try that as well. Maybe ebony wales are not as messy as I thought?

 

Two cents about pink ivory: Stiles and Bates does not ship wood outside UK.

I bought it here instead: http://www.exotichardwoodsukltd.com

Not sure about US, but shipping to Sweden was not a problem.

Got two big fat billets, they are amazing!

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I found that padauk wood also makes a reasonably good brick.  I used it on my scratch PHILADELPHIA for the hearth.

Chuck Seiler
San Diego Ship Modelers Guild
Nautical Research Guild

 
Current Build:: Colonial Schooner SULTANA (scratch from Model Expo Plans), Hanseatic Cog Wutender Hund, John Smith Shallop
Completed:  Missouri Riverboat FAR WEST (1876) Scratch, 1776 Gunboat PHILADELPHIA (Scratch 1/4 scale-Model Shipways plans)

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HI ALL

A VERY QUICK UPDATE.

THE WALES ARE NOW ON!!!!!!!!

HOLE FOR THE RUDDER ALSO CUT IN THE COUNTER.

 

LOTS OF CLEANING UP ON THE WALES AND FRAMES TO DO.......WORKING WITH EBONY IS A MESSY BUSINESS.

 

CLAMPS HAVE FINALLY BEEN FINISHED...WILL USE THESE WHEN PLANKING ABOVE THE WALES...NEXT JOB.

 

CHEERS FOR NOW.........MICK

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Looks outstanding, Mick.  I quite agree about ebony and the "messy business".  ;)

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

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Wonderful work on the wales, Mick. Messy ...!? you should have a talk with Mark Taylor (mtaylor), if I remember well he could get the dust out of his ears after sanding the ebony. Nice work on the clamps too

 

Cheers

Carl

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hi carl

thanks shipmate

dirty old job though.....sanding dust gets eveywhere...even with constant hoovering.

its been a hard job relatively speaking....quite afew rejected pieces.....but hopefully worth the sweat and foul language.

good job i gave up smoking in feb.......i think a few ounces of backy would have been consumed during this process!!!

 

cheers....mick

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