Thank you, my dear friends, for such warm words.
My best regards, Alexander
My best regards, Alexander
Oh, I missed your birthday! Please accept these belated best wishes. It is a privilege and joy to follow your work.
I had some accumulated everyday problems, that required attention, so work at the shipyard had to be suspended. Now everything is almost sorted out, now I'll slowly catch up with my work.
I have built shelves for storing cannonballs. I will use balls from bearings as cannonballs, I bought two sizes for carronades and for cannons. After blackening they look quite good.
The bollards were quite challenging to make. I tried several options until I found the right installation method.
Hi Kortes, it looks fantastic, great work.
Thank you my dear friend Tobias.
I have coated the deck and deck elements with oil.
As expected, the wood has changed color, the complete drying out , will be in two weeks, I guess
The wood has finally a beautifull colour - well done
While the oil is drying out, I decided to start with the boat and longboat. I made two “pieces” and now deciding which manufacturing method to choose.
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Dear Johann I think you won’t find anything new for yourself, on the contrary, I studied your report on the construction of the longboat and learned a lot. I also looked at the works of Mikhail Bezverhiy, Aleksei Baranov and other outstanding masters. I’ll try, but I’m not sure that it will work out on the first try on "La Jacinthe" I made three options. 
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The first option will probably goes in the trash tomorrow. The form seems to be sheathed well, but it’s impossible to remove the shell. 
Something hasn’t been done fully probably. Apparently I will have to remake the form, and make it from three parts that can be disassembled.
Or to figure something else out
Something hasn’t been done fully probably. Apparently I will have to remake the form, and make it from three parts that can be disassembled.Or to figure something else out
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The planking is looking very accurate - I am crossing the fingers, that you get the form out of the boats-hull
Dear Uwek unfortunately, just as I expected, it was not possible to remove the body from the pattern. I made a technological mistake and here is the result. I will have to try again. Meanwhile I am tuning the FET
Proxxon circular saw, a gift for the New Year. Some components are very crude and require some changes. My best regards
Proxxon circular saw, a gift for the New Year. Some components are very crude and require some changes. My best regards
I went back to the old technology. And got the expected result. Now the filling has to be done.
