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Thank you and Agreed. While it’s the big, spectacular builds by highly accomplished experts that get the most attention, it’s the neophytes such as us that benefit the most from having build logs. Both in terms of encouragement and practical advice.
Namabiiru! That's some nice work on the new stem! I look forward to seeing your progress on the framing. Looks like you're not having any trouble shaping the plywood frames. What are you using to do the work?In keeping with Nama’s corollary to Murphy’s law—that is anything I can break, I will break—I have remade the stem to align the wood grain better. New stem is on the left (notched for the figurehead)
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Yes, I know the shape of the timbers is not an accurate depiction of ship construction, but it’s going to be painted so the joins won’t be visible.
The other tip to Nama’s corollary is the addition of some reinforcing timbers on the four bulkheads I cut down IAW Bob Hunt’s practicum for the great cabin:
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The grain of the middle ply of the plywood is running transversely so without the stiffeners, the only thing holding the stanchions together is the veneer.
NICE! I really didn't think about the inteior spaces of the cabin, just the fact that the door to the cabin was very short. I imagined a step or two down. Could that be right? I also thought that the head room was kind of limited, like the captain's cabin of Jack Aubery's first command Sopie. In my mind the height of the skylight was a compensation - a tall captain would be able to stand at full height underneath it.
I get the hesitancy to post a log from a skill perspective. There are so many master builders making glorious works of art. Sometimes, after I've looked at Paul's work, for example, I think, why am I posting anything? Then my right mind returns. I overcome the impusle to compare and go with the feeling of inspiration I get from seeing the wonderful demonstrations of skill. It takes audacity to make the next step, jump or leap in skill. So, be audacious
regardless of the numbers of followers. My experience here has been that audacity attracts interest and the benefits of the expertise, comments and questions from all of our shipmates regardless of skill level. Namabiiru, I see you doing that here. Excellent!
Bob’s practicum has you shape the frames in situ. Still working out the best tool for that job. The great cabin work was done with Proxxon jigsaw.
I think you are spot on. Going to be some steps needing to be built for sure!
Aha! I really need to think about upgrading my tools. Shaping the frames in situ - meaning your doing it with the frames already secured to false keel?
Correct. Right now, I’m on the hunt for materials I can repurpose to make sanding pads for the Dremel, per @Dave Stevens (Lumberyard) in the School for Shipmodel Building.
Here's Pete's build - lovely all wood no paint! https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/model-shipways-fair-american.11900/Namabiiru, I regularly see you checking in on Chucks' and other build logs.
I, too, have built a MS "Fair American" years ago, now, and ended up selling it to a US Navy vet living in Boca Raton FLA. I used a different practicum by one the Nautical Research Guild officials, whose name escapes me at present, but I'm sure you can find it through that organization. It included that and several other 18thc. craft.
I was a vol. model shipwright at the USNA museum workshop for many years and know the Roger's collection F.A. model and the curator, Don Preul, very well.
Perhaps you've seen my two steps forward, one step back log on "Flying Cloud". I know that my F.A. is on here somewhere, but I can't nail down where. I'll PM you pics so as not to hijack your log. I will be following your log with great interest.
Pete
Thanks for that! I also recently discovered that it was my VPN that was keeping me from accessing MSW, and I have found a nicely documented FA log there.Namabiiru, I regularly see you checking in on Chucks' and other build logs.
I, too, have built a MS "Fair American" years ago, now, and ended up selling it to a US Navy vet living in Boca Raton FLA. I used a different practicum by one the Nautical Research Guild officials, whose name escapes me at present, but I'm sure you can find it through that organization. It included that and several other 18thc. craft.
I was a vol. model shipwright at the USNA museum workshop for many years and know the Roger's collection F.A. model and the curator, Don Preul, very well.
Perhaps you've seen my two steps forward, one step back log on "Flying Cloud". I know that my F.A. is on here somewhere, but I can't nail down where. I'll PM you pics so as not to hijack your log. I will be following your log with great interest.
Pete
Wow. I would think it would be easier to shape the frames off the keel. Interesting. I'll have to look at the practicum. Good luck with your hunt!
Ultimately, you would have to do some both to get it right, but you’re correct. That’s how I did it on my first unfinished build, but I’m putting my trust in Lauck Street Shipyard this time.
Haha! Too bad I didn’t find that yesterday, or else I might not have gone to all the trouble of filling in the notch for the figurehead. I had been unable to find any good close-up shots of the FA figurehead. I fiddled with a variety of ideas for positioning the figurehead and looked at a bunch of photos of other figureheads, and eventually decided the way the plans suggest didn’t work for me.
LOVE IT! I wanted to add hair because the real Lovely Renee has awesome hair, but I coouldn't think how to do it. You did a brilliant job! I don't know what the flat lower front is meant to be. I know I filed it down so it would fit in the given notch rather than on the front of the stem so they were largely obscured and I did the whole figurehead in gold. I'll check my references for the Rogers' collection model. If there is any thing interesting, I'll share it with you.
