decks

[Senorbob]

decks.. when they were tired of leaking decks canvas was put down in paint or something and that was the end of it. so much for the trumnels and all of that i

 

[AllanKP69]

I did some searching on this and was surprised that the use of coated canvas was used on upper decks starting the early 19th century. For me, that is not a pretty thing. Some thoughts regarding trennals........ they were not generally used on decks. Wrought iron spikes or dumps were used then covered with a diamond shaped or round wooden disk. For our purposes, a wooden trennal does give the appearance of the wooden disk cover. When the wood of the decks was holystoned, the wooden disks were subtly visible, if at all. On scales smaller than 1:48 leaving out the wooden covers or trennals is often a good idea.
Allan

 

[DAWarden-(Jaager)]

About decks :

holystoning involved something like a curling stone attached to ropes and pulled back and forth over a layer of sand. The deck was actually sanded. What species of wood that was used for decking will turn white after sanding?
Sun bleached wood - at least Maple, is silver/grey. Do not know what sun bleached White Oak or Yellow Pine looks like.
I see that using N.A. snow white marquetry Holly for decking on a model does not represent anything real.
The old molder books that suggest using Holly were by European authors? European Holly is yellow, not white?

 

[AllanKP69]

I think other than the platforms and orlop decks were primarily English oak and elm.

English oak


The below model is made with castello frames and planking on the hull, North American holly on the decks and Swiss pear on the deck furniture. My color vision is not the best, but I do not think the color of holly is so white as to be unrealistic. Just my opinion.