His Majesty's Ship Fowey (44) 1744 by AllanKP69

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I have a Foredom flexshaft. StewMac has an accessory that is a plunge router.


Upside down it is a shaper. No fence - just roller - which not as fool proof - the cutter is 1/4" twist drill bit with 22.5 degree tip angle
The tool allows the bit to be angled. It was quick to cut the rabbet and if there was a fence I may have been happy with what it did.
The 45 degree wedge - shallow - that a chisel can work off of for the angle change that comes with a garboard going from near horizontal at the deadflat to almost vertical at the ends.
If there is an actual garboard instead of open framing - the angle of the meeting is hidden so it can be faked.
There is a TEMU mini router table so does AliExpress - Ali also has a Dremel version
The TEMU table is Al so drilling bolt holes is easy. The mount for a Foredom HP is a Wolf wax trimmer - it also allows rotation of cutter angle.

Foredom + StewMac is serious money
Foredom + Wolf is serious money
AliExpress + Dremel is $100 if you have the correct Dremel already - it is elementary school when compared to grad school for the other two - but this is not an assembly line doing it over and over thing either.

 

[AllanKP69]

I also created a short series of consecutive scrapers to refine the dynamic profile. Inefficient but satisfying.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your input. I truly appreciate it! But now that you opened the door a crack I am trying to push all the way in and ask if you have photos and can describe how you made your scrapers.

nless you are going to leave a portion of the hull unplanked - the rabbet needs to be more functional that perfect.

You are right. The hull will have a portion unplanked midships as requested by the folks receiving the finished model. but the garboard and probably one or two more strakes of planking adjacent to the garboard will be complete so the rabbet will be covered. For this log, I figured if I need to make it, I may as well show it. Hopfully alternative ideas like you have wrote will get posted as the build progresses.

Allan

 

[AllanKP69]

Upside down it is a shaper. No fence - just roller -

Thanks Dean,
I ordered the bit so will give it a try on a scrap piece with my mill. It may not be worth the trouble of set up as Doctor K mentions for a one-off though.

Allan