Cutty Sark by Nenad

[NenadM]

Thanks, your explanation sounds very logical and reasonably.

 

lantern ... can you even imagine only one light dot in front of wheel in dark and stormy night in XIX century ?????? 

[Sailor1234567890]

You don't want too much light. At night, just a little glimmer is enough. Much more and you lose your night vision. That's bad. I'm pretty attentive to the light on my bridge and it's hard to keep light down these days because everything is backlit. Computer screens for everything from nav charts to comms gear is lit. Keeping your night vision on a bridge watch these days can be a challenge.

[NenadM]

Considering I am blind as a chicken at night, and drive after daylight only if I must, I had never thinking about any kind of night vision.

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

This compass will be a real challenge! Although I make lots of brass things, I would have to study a bit longer how to make it.

 

To your questions: As Sailor 1234567890 wrote, the marked cylinder will be for a light, I think the marked thing on top of the compass could be for allowing daylight to shine into the compass for better day vision, and the thing at the left side could be a door for cleaning works. Just a suggestion, I may be completley wrong!

 

Regards

Gerhard

[vonstetina]

Hi Nenad,  Lookin' good! Interesting photos.

 

bruce

[NenadM]

Thank you, Bruce, for your nice words

 

First I decided to redo entrance to under deck space, mixing present look with nice detail from Lou's pictures.

 

Planking surface of entrabce was ... ok ... Interesting ...

 

 

 

 

Devil do not sleep, and I felt I'll get no peace tonight until I try to make compass

 

Today is obviously the day of mixed design, so my compas will be something between ...

 

Carved by hands from rounded wooden molding, and sanded until I died to get nice smoth "metal" surface

 

 

 

Still not finished

Edited April 22, 2016 by Nenad

[Sailor1234567890]

Looks good. Are you going to stick some sort of cylinders on the side to make the lanter holders? I can't imagine working at that scale.

[NenadM]

I think it will be a piece of brass wire 1mm thick, just to simulate them. Glass is bothering me ...

Edited April 22, 2016 by Nenad

[GLakie]

Looks great for a first attempt Nenad!  Nice work! 

[mtaylor]

Compass and hatch are looking great, Nenad.   

Edited April 22, 2016 by mtaylor

[Omega1234]

Hi Nenad

 

You've gotta be really proud of yourself because the compass and the hatches look marvellous. I can tell you're enjoying yourself.

 

Keep the great work flowing.

Cheers

 

Patrick

[cog]

Nenad,

 

I agree with you ... glass is made to drink from, or to hold liquids ... 1 mm ... Would 1.5 mm wire be to thick ???

 

You do create wonderful things at odd hours of the day ...

 

Cheers

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Nenad

 

I llike that compass, looks good! 1mm brass wire would fit well as a lantern housing, but will not be easy to mount to the compass housing.

 

Regards

Gerhard

[NenadM]

Thanks all for likes and support

 

Working in garden today I was very "clever" ... Working gloves goes to hell, and I had brain storm idea to cut fingers of gloves and to get something as Rambo/Lara Kroft wear ... usefull for job as grass cutting and similar

 

Then roses (10 different and hudge) comes to line to make something nice from wild bushes they become... and I was very lazy to walk to garage 20 m away to pick up a brand new pair of working gloves ... Working almost 3 hours ... Result ... My fingers were needled and cutted couple of hundread times which I didn't feel or notice as something serious ... Then evening comes, and every, even a try to do something with fingers tonight is very painfull, even to manipulate with TV remote ...and I am forced to pause with compass. Grounded by myself.

 

What a "brilliant" mind I have. Idiot, lesson learned. Until next clever day, and next smart idea. Story of my life. Why I just can not simply walk on "elephant path"?

Edited April 23, 2016 by Nenad

[mtaylor]

I think we stay off the elephant path for two reasons, Nenad.   Robert Frost wrote a poem about "taking the path less traveled".  And there's the fact that if we're on the elephant path, we might get run over.       I think we've all done something like getting hand full of rose thorns.

[NenadM]

Try to imagine, Mark: Here is my source of pleasure, and at the same time, sometimes ... parcel is 40m x 17m, all under grass except pawn and car paths, and except surface occupied with plants. It is old ortho-photo, some details miss, but mainly, all is here. Almost ... I can not itemize all kind of flowers, clambering, and decorative grass etc Admiral planted here and there and everywhere

 

 

Dots colored red are position of roses, small ones, grown as a trees, or climbing one, wit all kind of thorns you can imagine

 

I do not complain

 

I like it very much

 

Mainly

Edited April 24, 2016 by Nenad

[SawdustDave]

Nenad.... Do you have a "line trimmer" to make your work easier? (Weed Eater)

[NenadM]

Nenad.... Do you have a "line trimmer" to make your work easier? (Weed Eater)

 

Yes Dave, i have electric mower for grass with 2KW power, also a little weed eater, but still there are places where weed eater can not work ( too close to flowers) so you have to get down on your knee and pick up/cut weed by hands. Here is photos of central yard alpinetum and you can see weed eater can nor pass there, if you want to keep there ground covering flowers

 

Before pray to Garden God

 

 

And after

 

 

Also you can see how it looks inside one of several longitudinal "flower alley". Place for praying, also

 

 

Also on next pictures you can notice that every alley is over 1m wide, louded with different stuff on almost every inch

 

 

On the left side is part of very old and very wild climbing rose 

 

 

Edited April 24, 2016 by Nenad

[CaptainSteve]

Beautiful work on all of your detailing, Nenad !!

For the glass in your compass/binnacle, you could try some clear plastic from packaging (like that used for shirts).

[dgbot]

Captain Steve has a good idea. Try the clear acitate that you find in packages.

[NenadM]

Happy birthday Dave !!!

[NenadM]

Compass is done

 

With a little glas...

 

 

 

This time, working ants didn't help me. There were another workers

 

 

They showed wired sense for jokes, and made compass to look like them!

 

I think I can live with it!

[slow2cool]

You are one amazing man. How you keep coming up with something from nothing I will never know.

Great Work

Joe

[mtaylor]

Nenad,

With that compass and the other small bits and pieces, your tiny pieces show incredible skill.  Great work!!!!

[SawdustDave]

Very nice compass Nenad. No surprise here.

[Sailor1234567890]

Looks great. I really do look forward to seeing how the grand old lady looks when you're done with her.

[popeye the sailor]

sweet work on the compass.....another bit of detail for the layout!  

[NenadM]

You are one amazing man. How you keep coming up with something from nothing I will never know.

Great Work

Joe

 

Just a long lasting dressage, Joe. As I said before, during socialism, western stuff including all kind of materials tools and many little things just there was on market in former Yugoslavia. Then followed period 1990-2000 when Serbia was hitted with wars and international sanctions, also nothing to bye. So, if we want something bad, we must to learn to improvise and to use what we have 

 

 

Nenad,

With that compass and the other small bits and pieces, your tiny pieces show incredible skill.  Great work!!!!

 

Thanks Mark. Macro shots do not show this ...

 

 

Very nice compass Nenad. No surprise here.

 

Thanks Dave. Learn from masters

 

Looks great. I really do look forward to seeing how the grand old lady looks when you're done with her.

 

It`s a long way to that. To much works, and many tricky works I have no idea how to do it for now (masts, yards, sails, ropes, knots, metal works)

[Sailor1234567890]

I don't doubt you'll figure it all out and she'll be simply grand.

[Piet]

Beautifully done on the compass Nenad, a great achievement.

 

Cheers,