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A lot of work. But no "chaos" pattern?
Yes a lot of work and more to come. It is a somewhat simplified pattern of Otte Blom. He drew below the wales even 5 nails per crossing of each plank with each frame. But chaos would probably have been historically correct. But then my planking should also have been more chaotic like the Vasa.
 
Hi Herman,

Very neat work but be aware frames are not straight lines. I I were you I would add extra treenails were the zitters are positioned. The top where the stekers are the tree nails and nails should be between the lines of the oplangen and liggers.
 
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Hi Peter,

Very neat work but be aware frames are not straight lines. I I were you I would add extra treenails were the zitters are positioned. The top where the stekers are the tree nails and nails should be between the lines of the oplangen and liggers.
You have a trained eye Maarten. And now i see a mistake I have made; a mistake you can only make when you are not building POF. I could of course add extra treenails to emphasize where all parts of the frames form an almost solid wall -and I will-, but i have already inserted nails where -as per the drawings of Blom- they should not be. Of course those drawings are not sacred; even he himself mentioned that the frames would not have been as regular as he had drawn them. Yes, I am now looking for excuses:cool:. No way back:(. Certainly not my first mistake and won't be my last too. Learning all the way.
 
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You have a trained eye Maarten. And now i see a mistake I have made; a mistake you can only make when you are not building POF. I could of course add extra treenails to emphasize where all parts of the frames form an almost solid wall -and I will-, but i have already inserted nails where -as per the drawings of Blom- they should not be. Of course those drawings are not sacred; even he himself mentioned that the frames would not have been as regular as he had drawn them. Yes, I am now looking for excuses:cool:. No way back:(. Certainly not my first mistake and won't be my last too. Learning all the way.
Whew… non of us excluding Maarten even picked this up Herman. Is it worth it to try correct this ? Well if you do you will achieve the “chaos “ nail effect:D:D. Cheers Grant
 
Whew… non of us excluding Maarten even picked this up Herman. Is it worth it to try correct this ? Well if you do you will achieve the “chaos “ nail effect:D:D. Cheers Grant
And then you have the nails that served for the connecting pieces of wood that held the floor timbers together during the first phase of construction. Yes there are more holes in such a Dutchman than in an Emmenthaler cheese.
 
Whew… non of us excluding Maarten even picked this up Herman. Is it worth it to try correct this ? Well if you do you will achieve the “chaos “ nail effect:D:D. Cheers Grant
Hi Grant. I will try to correct it as much as possible. I have made a small sketch how it would look like and like the result. Maarten was right and it will be worth the extra effort. It will probably take about 1000 extra nails, each side:cool:. And will give the impression of an organised chaos.
 
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