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[Herman]

Hi Herman, Sorry to be late to offer my condolences on the loss of your Mother. I'm just getting caught up on your beautiful ship. All of your work is just top-notch! The most difficult, the carvings, are executed wonderfully and make me excited to see more.

You've seemed to have gained back your momentum.

Hi Ken. Many thanks for your condolences and compliments.
My father in law also passed away recently leaving behind my demented mother in law. Luckily we have found a good nursing home a short half hour drive from our home, 2 hours less than where they used to live. But for the time being we still have a lot to arrange especially with their belongings so that will take away some of the momentum for the coming months.

 

[serikoff]

As a prelude to more difficult carving I replaced the ornament, which is used as inlay in the bow, because I found the earlier version too massive. And now was the right moment to correct that, before all the bow parts are joined together.
First of all a piece of wood was made to fit the housing; then the shape to be cut out was marked, holes drilled and the carving was made. I used both gouges, files, drills and my new nail drill.
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Excellent neat work, I really like it.

 

[Herman]

Excellent neat work, I really like it.

Thank you Sergey for your kind words.

 

[Herman]

Over the last week I have made the decorated ventilation ports.

First cut out the contours, then drilled a hole and filed it to the correct shape. The ports themselves are made up of 2 slats. The hinges filed out of a piece copper wire and blackened.








They look huge, but are rather small. I have placed them on the model to give an impression of the actual size.

 

[Mirek]

Witaj
Piękne rzeźbisz Hermanie . Model wygląda bardzo pięknie. Pozdrawiam Mirek

 

[Herman]

Witaj
Piękne rzeźbisz Hermanie . Model wygląda bardzo pięknie. Pozdrawiam Mirek

Dziękuję Mirek.
Było to artystyczne preludium do wyrzeźbienia figury dziobowej. To jest o krok trudniejszy.

Thank you Mirek.
This was an artistic approach before sculpting the figurehead. That is a step more difficult.

 

[Mirek]

Dziękuję Mirek.
Byłoby artystyczne preludium do wyrzeźbienia figury dziobowej. To jest o krok podstawowy.

Dziękuję Mirek.
To było podejście artystyczne przed wyrzeźbieniem figury dziobowej. To jest krok trudniejszy.

Witaj
Więrzę w Ciebie Hermanie widzę to po twoich pracach masz duży potencjał. Pozdrawiam Mirek

 

[Maarten]

Very nice work Herman,
Briefly I thought you were backing speculaasjes

 

[Peter Voogt]

Very nice work Herman,
Briefly I thought you were backing speculaasjes
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Now you are making speculaties about Herman’s capabilities…….
Regards, Peter

 

[Steef66]

Speculaasjes are lekker. So where is the problem?

 

[GrantTyler]

Speculaasjes are lekker. So where is the problem?

I have never had a Speculaasjes however Herman’s ventilation ports are pretty lekker.

 

[Herman]

Small update .. the pulleys as integrated in the hull have been made and installed.
I first milled 4 slots into a piece of wood, then reduced the wood to 4 pieces of the appropriate measurements to fit into the hull. A hole was drilled into the wood to fit the 'pulley' in it. I don't have a lathe so I just made the pulleys themselves from a brass tube and didn't profile them. After having carefully made holes in the hull installed them in the ship. They are fine and give a good idea of how it must have looked in my opinion.

 

[GrantTyler]

Small update .. the pulleys as integrated in the hull have been made and installed.
I first milled 4 slots into a piece of wood, then reduced the wood to 4 pieces of the appropriate measurements to fit into the hull. A hole was drilled into the wood to fit the 'pulley' in it. I don't have a lathe so I just made the pulleys themselves from a brass tube and didn't profile them. After having carefully made holes in the hull installed them in the ship. They are fine and give a good idea of how it must have looked in my opinion.

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Stunning!

 

[Kurt Konrath]

I know on your kit the vents are decorative, but I am sure on the real ship they are very important to good flow of fresh air below decks in the cabin area!

 

[RDN1954]

Beautiful work on these blocks!

 

[Iterum]

Thanks Herman for this exzellent building report. I did find some very interessting information and detailling for my contemporary 60-gun ships.

 

[Herman]

Stunning

Thank you Grant.

Beautiful work on these blocks!

Thanks Johan

Thanks Herman for this excellent building report. I did find some very interesting information and detailing for my contemporary 60-gun ships.

Thank you Chris. It's always nice to hear that we can help each other here.

 

[Herman]

FIGUREHEAD - part 1

Amongst other things I have been working on the figurehead.
The drawings of Otte Blom do not provide a clear picture of the figurehead:



So I made, based on this drawing, my own sketch for the figurehead. I first marked out the contours of the bow sections, which have already been made since the figurehead will have to fit between them. Then I drew my rough idea of the figurehead, copied it to a piece of wood and and I used the bandsaw to cut out the outlines.




As the lion figurehead will hold on to the curl of the bow section I drilled a hole and made a slot in its belly so that it would fit over this bow section.

 

[Steef66]

The difficult part of a Dutch lion is, that there are no good accurate drawings that fit in the model. You succeeded this part at this moment. At this moment the fun wil start.

 

[Herman]

FIGUREHEAD - part 2

On a sunny day I took my work outside and started the carving of the figurehead.




My first idea was to make the crown and lion out of 1 piece of wood, but as I was not satisfied with this "hat" I abandoned that idea and started a separate crown.



As it was my first try for a figurehead I was bound to make mistakes and I did. I slipped and damaged the nose of the lion.



I started considering this figurehead as a test piece but worked further on it as I was far from sure that I would be able to make a credible lion. That is the reason I stopped making interim photos of the further process.