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Model Shipways FAIR AMERICAN 14 GUN Privateer 1:48 SCALE

I cut new bow/stern/bottom keel pieces from swiss pear. 1.jpg

Marked the sanding lines on front/side of bow piece.
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Bow piece is sanded down to marks.
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Like everone else, the bottom/stern keel pieces were too short.
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cut new pieces...
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Made the new stern piece about 1/4" about 5-6mm too long. The top of the piece can be sanded down later if needed when putting the stearn together. Would rather it be too long than too short and I don't know exactly where the stearn pieces will fit together. 8.jpg

Cut the hole in the bow piece for the bowsprit lashing. The hole on the drawings was so tiny. I made it a little larger.
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Then glued it all together. Believe it's ready for the bulkheads now.
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Don't know how this image got in there again. Tried deleting it. It won't delete!!
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I sat the keel in a jig to keep it vertical and straight. Then slid bulkhead #1 in place. It was nowhere near vertical. Looked at the plans. The bow is 20mm higher than the stern. I don't see that measurement anywhere on the drawing. I measured from a horizontal line on the drawings. Guess I check what others did. I can easily raise the bow in the jig to make the bulkheads vertical.
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I've temporarily remove my statement this post as I may have been wrong about what I said about another site. Will come back it I find out it was true and will repost.

I just wrote Mary on the NRG site and asked. She said the entire website is down right now.
 
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lakedaisy said:
I said I used swiss pear for the keel. That's not right. I used boxwood.

Funny thing happened. I was just BANNED on MODEL SHIP WORLD. I know they have SPIES on SOS that scurry back to their leader to report wrong doing by someone on another website. I was banned about 2 years ago but got reinstated as it was a misunderstanding. I have no idea what I did here to get banned there, but evidently i did something the ship rats didn't like.
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I know exactly what it was I did, on facebook!
 
I'm gluing to bulkheads in place. #13-#16 are now cut pretty deep to make way for the cabin. I already broke the 'ears' bulwark stantions?? off of bulkhead #7. I made new pieces and guled them back. I cut some pieces with the grain running vertically to strengthen the 'ears' on #13-#16.
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My first attempt at cutting a window on CNC. Needs a LOT of work!!
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