HIGH HOPES, WILD MEN AND THE DEVIL’S JAW - Willem Barentsz Kolderstok 1:50

Heinrich said:
While I should have been sleeping, I was building puzzle! :D

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I must say, I find this quite therapeutic - whether I will find the hours and hours of sanding that lies ahead, also so therapeutic, will have to be seen.
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Good Morning Heinrich- immaculate preparation and research- I am with you that stern is sexy! Oh Boy, that seems a load of “jigsaw” block making and future sanding. You clearly know what you are doing however if I ever box a hull I would attempt the foam method of Olga.- my lazy nature revealed ;). Non the less I cannot wait for that oak hull planked! Cheers Grant
 
GrantTyler said:
Good Morning Heinrich- immaculate preparation and research- I am with you that stern is sexy! Oh Boy, that seems a load of “jigsaw” block making and future sanding. You clearly know what you are doing however if I ever box a hull I would attempt the foam method of Olga.- my lazy nature revealed ;). Non the less I cannot wait for that oak hull planked! Cheers Grant
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For sure, Grant - it is a lot of sawing and fitting everything together, but that's OK. It's the sanding part (remember, I do everything by hand) that is going to take many hours. But ... the secret to a good planking job, lies in the preparation.
 
Heinrich said:
While I should have been sleeping, I was building puzzle! :D

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I must say, I find this quite therapeutic - whether I will find the hours and hours of sanding that lies ahead, also so therapeutic, will have to be seen.
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Heinrich, I know most would feel I should seek professional help but, my favorite tool (if you can call it a tool) is sandpaper.
With a good sanding things just seem to come to life.
 
rtibbs said:
Heinrich, I know most would feel I should seek professional help but, my favorite tool (if you can call it a tool) is sandpaper.
With a good sanding things just seem to come to life.
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Hi Ron - no I don't think for a moment that you need professional help, because you like sanding. :D I also like sanding, but then a finer type of sanding that gives a smooth finish to something. There will be a lot of aggressive sanding with 80-grit that has to take place here, before I get to the part where I can switch to my finer grits and start bringing out the shape. Anyway, in for a penny, in for a pound! :)
 
Steef66 said:
I think you both need professional help. Sanding is no fun, dust breathing, dust on everything include an angry admiral who needs to dust the home again.
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Hoi Stephan. Luckily or unluckily for me, I stay alone so all sanding will be done by the time she comes back. Unfortunately, that also means that I am responsible for the cleaning up. As to the sanding dust - I live in China with its infamous pollution and I smoke Chinese cigarettes - I'm in trouble either way. A little bit of wood dust ain't going to make a difference! ROTF
 
Hello Everyone.

After 5 meters of Paulownia went into the little ship this is what she looks like tonight. I have yet to do the stern and the bow, but I will first sand the rest of the hull and then box those sections last when I have a clear line of the hull shape.

Viewed from above there aren't too many tell-tale signs of what is going on beneath the waterline.

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But flipped over - you can see the full effect.

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Somewhere in there, there is a beautiful woman waiting to be unleashed! ROTF

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For their expedition ships, Dutch shipwrights of the sixteenth century, favored a relatively squared hull. ROTF
 
Heinrich said:
Hello Everyone.

After 5 meters of Paulownia went into the little ship this is what she looks like tonight. I have yet to do the stern and the bow, but I will first sand the rest of the hull and then box those sections last when I have a clear line of the hull shape.

Viewed from above there aren't too many tell-tale signs of what is going on beneath the waterline.

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But flipped over - you can see the full effect.

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Somewhere in there, there is a beautiful woman waiting to be unleashed! ROTF

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For their expedition ships, Dutch shipwrights of the sixteenth century, favored a relatively squared hull. ROTF
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Sorry H, but that hull is a little bit too square :)
 
pingu57 said:
Heinrich, this has been some Serious boxing my friend, good luck with the sanding :eek: o_O
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Indeed, my friend. When I am finished, I will have a solid hull below the first deck, but first, sanding! Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, I have nothing else to do, so I might as well spend my time sanding! ROTF
 
I thought I had friends on SOS, but NO ONE warned me ...

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pingu57 said:
Well, in that case you don't have to get bored today.Sleep Don't forget to take enough coffee, that gives plenty of energy ;)
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My friend, I have been sanding since 07H45 this morning. It is now 18H23 in China. This is a HUGE work - not a job for the faint-hearted. It is just as well I live alone, because you don't want to see what things look like here. :(
 
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