french 64-gunner LE FLEURON in scale 1:48 by Joachim

For the last two weeks I have been working on the captain's and officers' cabins. The most labor-intensive parts are the four doors and the double door of the captain's large meeting room. Hinges have to be made, the doors themselves, the window frames with bars and today I installed the doors. The great effort with the hinges means that the doors can also be opened. The doors alone kept me busy for a week . In the next step the walls will get several coats of shellac and then I might will build a few more pieces of furniture for the captain's cabin.

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Dear Joachim
you have done wonderful work on the captain's and officers' cabins
 
I have spent the last few months working on many details to finally finish the hull. The only thing missing are the anchors, brass has already been ordered. A lot of things were mass-produced: fastening devices on the hull for the shrouds, rings, cleats, belaying nails, railings, etc.

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A few deadeys seem twisted around the wrong way, and didn't they normally have the long groove from hole leading up to ease the strain on rope going thru?
 
Now I'm building 7 anchors of different sizes. I finished the first one today. I had already ordered brass rods of different thicknesses, from 4x4 to 12x 12 mm. The first thing I did was create the tapered shaft on the milling machine. Then came the two arms, which I sawed out of a brass rod. I doweled the two arms to the shaft. I also sawed the flukes out of a flat brass rod and then doweled them to the arm. I usually solder a lot of small parts. But that didn't work with the larger brass parts. The large brass shaft simply absorbs the temperature from the Bunsen burner and the temperature required for soldering is not achieved. But it also works well with dowels and a drop of superglue. I made the stick out of two halves of wood and fitted them with dowels again. Then a few soldered brass rings that go around the stick. I've been working on one anchor for a week now, it's more complicated than I thought, but it worked. The next 6 will go a little faster

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