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Greetings Wojitas! You are most welcome to pull up a chair.
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. These fillers should have been fast and easy...
…….. With all that said, it is enormously satisfying to look at the above images and know that I started with a few pieces of one-inch-thick lumberleaning against my work bench about two months ago.
With this period and you can't choose wrong, frigate or a 3 decker either is a deadly work of art
That's why it's called a scratch building, you do a lot of head scratching before gluing pieces..... and after tooEarlier I shared an epiphany I had about scratch building: there are no instructions. Making these fillers brought to mind my second epiphany: scratch building requires making everything
Thank you kindly, Roger!
Small steps lead to big results
Thank you for the visit and nice posting, Gunther!Hey Paul,
really very nice. I'm really impressed by the way you're building the ship. Respect.
Regards
Günther
Hi Paul
Plenty of chairs still available, Gilbert. Welcome!
that the keel is not as a waterline is a peculiarity that few people adopt it ( for lack of information).FrankWell, you may be on to something, Maarten. The stern of the ship does indeed sit deeper in the water than the bow (the waterline does not parallel the keel just as you anticipated). But when I measure the frames relative to the waterline now they tip backward...perhaps even a bit more than they tip forward relative to the keel.
As for the building solution...now both you and Nigel have suggested the very same remedy. Consider it done
Indeed! While I did complain about the impact this introduces into the drawings and their interpretation - implementing this detail has not presented any major issues.
all these details are tarred with pannolate .FrankToday's posting will bring this build report up to the current day...
The keel of the SP was of four segments joined in series via hooked scarf joints. Even though I am only building the stern section it happens that one of these hooked scarf joints fell within the scope of my work (I'm building a somewhat longer stern section than more typical examples).
I've made hooked scarfs by hand in the past - but have seen others fabricate them using a mill and a tilting table. I gave that a go...
While I was at it, I also milled a normal scarf into the knee of the sternpost...
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An unexpected first-time success!
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If you look carefully, you can see that I have also completed some preliminary shaping/tapering of the aft deadwood (and also created the rabbet at the keel and sternpost). The Saint Philippe has a (mostly) square tuck.
It is interesting to me that the monograph refers to the deadwood (edit - should have said rising wood) as a false keel. I'm not sure if this is a translation issue (my version of the monograph was translated from French) or if there was a different nomenclature in use at that time in history. I also learned that it was a known practice (late 17th century) to add a full keel (not a false keel) to the underside of an existing keel to mitigate hogging.
Anyway, here is the other side of the assembly with some of the details visible:
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Where the rabbet is straight, I used my little mill. Where the rabbet is curved, I used a v-gouge (very carefully as not to ruin a piece with much already invested in it).
Finally (on the SP), the frames seat into notches along the rising wood. These were cut in with a mill - though there are two that will need to be done by hand because I can't get the mill where it needs to go because the sternpost is in my way).
The following images also show my solution to the fact that the frames are not perpendicular to the keel (they tip forward 1.2 degrees). Under the keel you will notice a 1.2 degree ramp... Now I can erect the frames perpendicular to the build-board and when I remove the ramp I'll have a forward tip to the frames.
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Thanks for visiting!
P.S. My oldest grandson and I just finished his first ship model. Here we are showing off our work
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As you can see I used black tissue paper as a liner though I have seen some builders of French ships take the position that there should not be tarred joints for the centerline timbers. I happen to like the look so I included it. I hope this translates well into Italian!
