Cutty Sark by NenadM

[jud]

Although on a larger scale, I made a sign on a rough cut 1" X 12" board, with a split in it for character, by  using a computer printout and carbon paper to transfer the lines to the wood. Then using a small sharp chisel went around the lettering with a vertical cut, then a beveled cut from outside the letters down to the bottom of the previous cut. That bevel can be used for different effects by how far out it starts from the previous cuts and the cut marks left behind. I Painted the lettering using a sponge and a flat black paint, the whole thing was then treated with linseed oil. Don't know what the board was, it was a piece that had been around for years and may have been Oak, the linseed oil gave it a flat maple appearance with the letters looking like they wee raised lettering. Scaled down and using miniature chisels with a magnifier of some sort, could get you some neat semi 3-D decorations and lettering. You have demonstrated that you have the patience for this kind of meticulous work, Your excellent job of coopering demonstrated that.

jud.

[rfolsom]

Very interesting testing, done, my friend;  I would never had thought to approach this step with this technique;  I'll be watching,  I won't be attemping this until all my freeing port hatches are finished...  Hopefully you'll have it all figured out by then, and I can follow...

[NenadM]

Bob, do you think about posibility to make stern decoration without rooling Her ? It looks impossible

 

Still resting of Her, working 13 hours in office today and next couple of days...

[rfolsom]

Nenad;  I'm not sure what you mean by "rooling"

[NenadM]

Nenad;  I'm not sure what you mean by "rooling"

 

Turn upside down. Sure no to roll Her as kneading bread ...  Imagine that rolling ..... 

Edited August 5, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

Today I got one news which can be characterized as good and as bad at the same time

 

Considering that in Serbia is adopted new labor Law, and this is one of my specialty, this days I got a lot of job, so summer vacations went somewhere in a dream-land. So, good is, after more than a 6 months of delay in the work as a consequence of "successful" judicial reform (I wrote about earlier), now I need 36 hours longing work day, spiced with weekly business 1-2 day trip to factory in country side I worked last year ... ( same job - implementing new law, negotiations with syndicate, and layoff with severance ...). At the same time, one great sport Club - same job, and 6 smaller companies with need for "paper works" in labor matter

 

Bad is, there obviously will not be time for Her Majesty in amount I wish, so any progress is by the sign of "?" for a couple of months. I am afraid I shall have time only to read new posts and to comment from time to time ...

 

               

[CaptainSteve]

So ... you mean we have to wait while you do the job that you are good at ???

That hardly seems fair !!!

[NenadM]

So ... you mean we have to wait while you do the job that you are good at ???

That hardly seems fair !!!

 

It is not fair, but this is job I am paid for. Nobody lives from air (I tried once when get 15 kg weight excess, but was very very hungry and dangerous for all around me, and all around me looks very juicy and delicious ... )

[rfolsom]

"Well, Young Man, you'd better get your priorities straight!!"

 

Just kidding...

 

I hope your extra work brings you extra wealth and happiness; and not extra stress..

 

Just remember, If we don't see some sort of updates, you'll be nagged at from time to time!!

 

"Don't Give Up the Ship"  -Battle flag of the USS Niagara, 1813

[NenadM]

 you'll be nagged at from time to time!!

 

 

 

       

[capnharv2]

Hopefully, more work now means you can retire earlier to work on ship models (and anything else you want to do).

 

It worked for me!

 

Take care.

 

Thanks,

 

Harvey

[edmay]

Hello Nenad, If you can swim,well okay walk the plank.when you reach the shore look back you will see the Cutty Sark and say "Ahoy mates I'll be back",I predict this side trip will be good for you and your family,good luck my friend,we'll wait for your safe return.Edwin

[mtaylor]

Nenad,

 

The wood and the ship are patient. It's us builders who aren't.  Do what you need to do and hopefully find some fun on a road trip or just in some words with friends during your labors.   We'll be here.  

[NenadM]

Ok , bussines horror realy starts on Monday with some preparation on weekend, so I take my free evening and there is a little progress.

Rudder is dressed in plates. Two hours ?!?!?!

 

Next will be ...

 

Color correction ... no ! Mount of rudder must be done before, and it means ... soldering

 

This will wait a little

 

And before that, some tests and final mat warnish of plates

 

[dgbot]

The thing about more work is that you can replenish the coffers for when things slow down again.  Plus the nice things for the Admiral.

David B

[NenadM]

Silly thing with every work-day in office ...

 

When do you expect crowds and chaos, usually at the unexpected and unknown way, all clear after a few hours ... and when you expect a quiet day ... things sometimes get very fast so complicate, that at the evening you just do not know where your head is, or what you do all day except played the answering machine to yourself, and the flow of work is such that it is easy to feel strangled ... 

 

well ... At Wednesday night, crowd was gone, so at Trursday I'm with Admiral after a meeting in one company, spent several happy hours sniffing at a flea market, and buying in the hypermarket, a nap in the afternoon and evening with Her Majesty. Relaxed, expecting easy day in Friday and nice and relaxing weekend before Chaos that starts on Monday

 

But today ... relaxing work with half of brain was planed ... but ... unscheduled meetings into the city around 09:00 to return to the house/office, about 16:00, where I find about a million e-mails with different requirements ... I do not know if I'll get out from office before 23:00 today, with the expecting all weekend working  10-12 hours for scheduled times on Monday ... and all of that have to be mixed with:  1. car washing 2. grass cutting 3. BBQ for direct family that was planned two weeks ago 4. painting the hallway (the admiral's madness) 

 

Ha, I have a solution - to turn into a polar bear and sleep for the next two days, to wake up on Monday and just - travel for two days ...

 

And where is She ? Down, crying for me to finish Her nice and glimmering evening dress 

[NenadM]

To hell with everything ...

Ornaments from C-plans resized to. My scale ...

I do not have too big fingers, so these are beats and ants I have to make

Seem pretty impossible

but ...

Edited August 9, 2014 by Nenad M

[rfolsom]

Nothing is impossible...  I've thought about photo etching these things..  It wouldn't have the carved 3-dimensional detail that we want, but It would look very presentable.

[rfolsom]

Let's not forget our friend Marc (Keelhauled) did some fine hand-carved scrollwork with sharpened jeweler's screwdrivers;  I really think that would be beyond my skills, but I also just said "nothing is impossible"...

 

Maybe it's possible for Mr. Nenad....

Edited August 10, 2014 by rfolsom

[NenadM]

Bob, you challenge me ... I challenge myself too  ==>>   something about very very thin cooper wire is flying around me ...

I`ll think more about during BBQ today

Edited August 10, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

And there is "thinking" process ... 

 

 

Helping beer can is right beside

[Piet]

Not fair Nenad - - - here we are drooling and we can't even have a smell, let alone a taste of those beautiful steaks     

Well deserved my friend, hope you and your family enjoyed it!

 

Cheers,

[dgbot]

I hope you marinated those brats in that beer first.  That will be a good chaser to those steaks.

David B

Edited August 11, 2014 by dgbot

[rfolsom]

That's my kind of thinking process... Yummm!

[popeye the sailor]

the admiral saw the picture and asked why there were sticks in the brats........I said....can you think of a better way to eat them of course, for me....I'd like mine nestled in a bun with grilled onions, green pepper, and mushrooms........hee.....hee!

 

that's the way Nenad......never think on an empty stomach!

[NenadM]

... why there were sticks in the brats.....

....never think on an empty stomach!

 

Sticks are there to allow uniform heat effect and crisp from all sides at the same time

 

And one secret function - to be by hand as a weapon when Bob`s runaway pig come near BBQ

 

Empty stomach = empty brain, I agree very much

[NenadM]

After 12 hours in office, trying to make some helping close direct light for future miniature works, by supervision of Hothead

I succeed ... only to broke expensive bulb ...

He told me that happened because I did not listen his advises ...

Not much in shipyard this days, but in the moments when try to empthy my overloaded brain, I can not stop thinking about thin cooper wire solution, and can not wait for time to try/play with this

Edited August 13, 2014 by Nenad M

[NenadM]

And finaly some  testing: How to "kill" excess shine with mat acryl warnish. Couple of pictures ... it works ... but camera can not show graduation of "killing"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next test will be little adding of thin and transparent layer of dark green gamut to try to look same as cooperring on pictures from Greenwich 

 

Little excess of beer ( succesfull fighting with Admiral for last glass of beer in house), and this is it for tonight, now is 21:30, a time for family meeting infront of TV

Edited August 13, 2014 by Nenad M

[Sven]

Hi Nenad

 

I visited the Cutty sark last weekend and as a reasonably regular visitor I noticed that in the last month or two the Muntz metal used on the hull has lost most of its shine! I did not have a camera with me but it clearly is losing a lot of its "bling" (which is a good thing)!

I shall post some pictures in the near future

 

Matt

[rfolsom]

Hmmm...  Reading this makes me realize I haven't made my rudder yet, and the copper on my ship already has quite a few months of natural patina....  Maybe I should at least copper my rudder before things get too mismatched...!