Lynx 1812 by SaltyScot - Manuta-Panart - 1:62 - building as Mosquidobit

[SaltyScot]

1 hour ago, Coyote_6 said:

Waiting anxiously!!

 

Well, we can't have that, can we. Here is an image from Amazon of an organizer that I liked but, they wanted $36 for it! 🤨

 

 

So, I collected up some scraps, literally, and threw this together. It still needs some compartments on the bottom and something to slot tools into at the front but it will do nicely I believe:

 

[Coyote_6]

That looks really nice Mark.   Especially for being scrap wood!

[SaltyScot]

4 hours ago, Coyote_6 said:

Especially for being scrap wood!

 

I ran some old fence slats through the thickness planer, Steve, then cleaned up the edges on the table saw. I was actually surprised how clean they came out for being rough cut wood. I am still considering painting the whole thing white, we will see.

[Jolly Jo]

Well done, Mark! Scrap wood is so versatile if one has the right idea.

[SaltyScot]

I had a very nice surprise yesterday. I didn't realize that the CEO had been paying close attention to my goings on regarding new tools and what was necessary for the shipyard. I had told her in passing that I didn't really need anything because I had a functioning wood shop already. Well, she completely blindsided me and had these delivered:

 

  

 

It confused me at first because I know I didn't order them. She let me open the packages and then told me how she had picked up on the fact that I may have needed a drill that was a little more accurate than the Dremel tool I am currently using. She did good! I will finish the cleanup in the shipyard today and get these two situated. 

[Glen McGuire]

Christmas in May!  Gotta love that!

[Keith Black]

Thank God for a loving and caring wife, they are a joy and make life bearable. 

[Coyote_6]

Happy days!   Congrats.   A thoughtful partner is one of life's great treasures brother!!

[SaltyScot]

9 minutes ago, Coyote_6 said:

A thoughtful partner is one of life's great treasures brother!!

 

She is my greatest treasure, Steve. Can't imagine life without her  

 

3 hours ago, Keith Black said:

Thank God for a loving and caring wife, they are a joy and make life bearable. 

 

Absolutely true, Keith. As they say, happy wife..... etc. 

 

3 hours ago, Glen McGuire said:

Christmas in May!  Gotta love that!

 

Yep, just as big a surprise as well, Glen!

[SaltyScot]

The new tool has pride of place in the shipyard. I built the table from some old shelves that we pulled out of the mother-in-law's house when she moved. The CEO's father was a navy man and these shelves have US Navy stamped on them. Fitting that they should end up in a shipyard ⛴️

 

[Coyote_6]

1 hour ago, SaltyScot said:

The CEO's father was a navy man and these shelves have US Navy stamped on them. Fitting that they should end up in a shipyard ⛴️

 

Mark!  That is so darn cool.  Loss for words, but man, if the Navy ain't about tradition and history, then, well.... 

 

Well played sir.  Well played!

[Keith Black]

 I agree 100% with Steve's comment above. 

[SaltyScot]

And the shipyard is open for business again, kitted out with the "scrap wood built organizer"  This is my HAPPY PLACE!

 

[Jolly Jo]

Very nice indeed! Now, if anything goes wrong it's your fault 😆

[SaltyScot]

Because yesterday was a wash out, quite literally because it rained ALL DAY, I was able to get a bit of work done in the shipyard which was fun. I decided to start working on the gun ports:

 

 

It was quite an ominous feeling knowing that I was going to have to cut into the side of my ship but, with chisel in hand, after the initial pilot hole was drilled, I pushed forward:

 

 

The "rough cut" has been done on one side.The ports still need a bit of fine tuning but, thanks to a good tip from @Dr PR, I made what is pretty much a gap gauge to get the hole sizes all the same (thanks, Phil):

 

[Coyote_6]

Wow Mark.  Those are your rough cuts??  Look pretty clean and precise to me brother.   Nice.

[SaltyScot]

1 hour ago, Coyote_6 said:

Wow Mark.  Those are your rough cuts??  Look pretty clean and precise to me brother.   Nice.

 

You are too kind, sir. They are not quite uniform enough yet so that the wee gap gauge slides into each one smoothly. A bit of fine tuning is still needed but thank you for that mate.

[Ronald-V]

Lovely work on your ship, and what a nice workplace!  

[SaltyScot]

I managed to get some unexpected time in the shipyard today. We have family here for the week but they decided to take a day trip today which freed up some time. I got on with some tasks I have been wanting to do away from the ship. I replaced the horrible plywood parts for the bowsprit and mast caps, catheads and support ring for the boom on the main mast with some white maple I had knockng around the woodshop. The maple was milled to the right thickness and the parts cut out on the band/scroll saws:

 

 

 

 

The pieces will be taken to the shipyard and cleaned up properly then stored away until needed. As well as that I put the new laser level to the test. I leveled the hull in the woodshop and used the laser level to help me mark the gunport holes that still needed cutting out. I also checked on the ones that I had already done, just to be sure:

 

 

Our house will be ours again this weekend so I am hoping to carry on where I left off today. Here's hoping  

 

 

Edited Thursday at 11:49 AM by SaltyScot
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[Keith Black]

Plywood has its place but that place isn't for parts that will be out in the open. It's that kind of attention to detail that turns a good model into a great model.  Well done, Mark. 

[Jolly Jo]

Cool, laser-schooners are all the rage! 

 

 

[SaltyScot]

It was time to address the rest of the gun ports and take care of the two ports at the stern. Because I "refashioned" the stern transom I had some measuring to do to make sure the two ports back there sat in the correct position:

 

 

I first made a template of both the inside and the outside and transferred the outside shape onto the inside template:

 

 

I needed to ensure that the ports fell nicely within the rail going around the outside of the transom. To get that right the port holes were first measured up and added to the inside template. I laid that on top of the outside one and drew the cut outs onto it. This gave me the correct placement within that exterior rail:

 

 

After transferring that template to the boat, the port holes were marked and cut out:

 

 

The rest of the gun ports were cut out, cleaned up and test fitted with the gap gauge:

 

 

Next up was the rudder and tiller. I dry fitted the rudder to ensure there was enough room to mount the tiller head. It sat in there very nicely:

 

 

 

The tiller will be made out of black walnut (the plywood one supplied with the kit just doesn't cut it for me!) To get the dimensions right I consulted Marquardt's Global Schooner and found this:

 

 

This is something I will take care of very soon. My next task was the cap rails. Again, I was not at all happy with the kit supplied ones. I decided to go with walnut strakes that were bent using the "hot tub method" (which has since been officially decommissioned for the summer by the way). I left them in there for 24 hours and then pinned them to a solid board to take shape, leaving them overnight. They didn't exactly hold the desired shape for some reason so I re-soaked them in a tall thermos of boiling water for 20 minutes and re-pinned them. I will leave them like that until tomorrow:

 

 

 

My last task of the day yesterday was to drill the hole for the bowsprit. The plans suggest using a 6mm drill bit initially and then file out to the required 8mm. I started with 4mm, then 6. All went well up to that point but for some obscure reason I decided to take my Dremel tool with a burr bit and try to clean up the hole edges. It was on a slower speed than normal but still made a mess. I had some minor repairs to do to the gammoning knee and the bow. That was taken care of last evening and this morning she looks OK again. She now has a bowsprit hole  

 

 

She was taped up after I marked the waterline because the next task, after adding the fender rails and lining the gun ports, is to get her off to paint.

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 04:33 PM by SaltyScot
I missed a comma! :)

[SaltyScot]

On 6/11/2025 at 9:52 PM, Keith Black said:

Plywood has its place but that place isn't for parts that will be out in the open. It's that kind of attention to detail that turns a good model into a great model.  Well done, Mark. 

 

Thanks for this, Keith.