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Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48
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Well, now that Rob said it...
I must have forgotten you were modeling Dutch directness, Stephan
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My thoughts exactly. Precision and shortcuts rarely go together. Even though I keep trying shortcuts…
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What about something like this, Doc? I have one, it's not bad, but it's also not good at hogging out a ton of material.
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My 2c.....It never hurts to make improvements in technique, but we often fail to see our creations properly until months, or even years, after they are built. If you have a mindset to spend time and take care, it will be reflected in the result. If you are always looking for a faster way of working, you may look back and wish you had taken more time.
I think that I have done it the same way, Paul. In this situation is ‘easy and fast’ out of order. With this sanding stick you are sure that both sides will bij flat and identical. ‘Time investment’ is for now the best option.
Regards, Peter
Hi Rob, I have seen this line of tools get some pretty high reviews.
Magnificent work Paul. I have some doubts even then you found faster method would you sacrifice quality of your work?
Thank you, gentlemen. Slow and steady wins the race I guess...
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I asked one of my modeling buddies about cutting gun ports in wood and he thought this might be useful. Though it is quite expensive it requires less pressure than, say, an xacto knife. The chisel and the double edge blade are shown used with broaching in plastic, so I am wondering about broaching in wood.
Nope......
Thanks, Rob. That's a really interesting looking tool. Who knew that handheld ultrasonic cutting was even a thing? I join you in wondering just how effective a smooth blade would be cutting hardwoods - but at that price I won't be finding out. I'm halfway done now and getting good results the low-tech way, so I'll just muddle along.
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Good morning, just for your information, gun ports have a very specific position in terms of size and location on the hull, and not all gun ports are the same size. Frank
Thank you very much, Frank. I have carefully measured the plans and think I will be able to get the locations and sizes very close. I appreciate that you took the time to confirm this with me!
Beautiful! I'd love to see more frequent and detailed updates. It's so interesting to follow along, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the results.
Thanks, Sergey. I'm trying to keep this build report shorter than the 200-page editions of my previous two builds 
. Plus, if I knew what I was doing I might be more confident in posting my work processes.
. Plus, if I knew what I was doing I might be more confident in posting my work processes.
Well, that was a lot more work than I anticipated...
The rough-in of the gunports (and lights) is now complete:
Inexplicably I made all six of the first deck gunports too wide. In trying to reconstruct how that happened it seems that the initial measurement was wrong as every port is too wide by an identical amount. It is also true that the monograph specifies one width, and the drawings show a different width. Unfortunately, I must not have caught that difference during the research stage.
In any case my solution was to insert a thin fillet - the planking will make this repair largely disappear.
A first deck gun port:
A second deck gun port:
Next up are the upper and lower sills.
Thanks for stopping by!
The rough-in of the gunports (and lights) is now complete:
Inexplicably I made all six of the first deck gunports too wide. In trying to reconstruct how that happened it seems that the initial measurement was wrong as every port is too wide by an identical amount. It is also true that the monograph specifies one width, and the drawings show a different width. Unfortunately, I must not have caught that difference during the research stage.
In any case my solution was to insert a thin fillet - the planking will make this repair largely disappear.
A first deck gun port:
A second deck gun port:
Next up are the upper and lower sills.
Thanks for stopping by!