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Hoss6262 said:
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.
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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.
 
Herman said:
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.
 
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.

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

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Mirek said:
Witaj
Piękne rzeźbisz Hermanie . Model wygląda bardzo pięknie. Pozdrawiam Mirek
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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.
 
Herman said:
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.
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Witaj
Więrzę w Ciebie Hermanie widzę to po twoich pracach masz duży potencjał. Pozdrawiam Mirek
 
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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Herman said:
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!
 
Thanks Herman for this exzellent building report. I did find some very interessting information and detailling for my contemporary 60-gun ships.
 
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:

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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.


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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.
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FIGUREHEAD - part 2

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

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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.

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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.

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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.
 
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