Recently I was playing around with following drawing of a ship, hoping that with no much experience of Admiralty approach I can make something that would hold the load and look attractive....
My first attempt to make the hull from plywood showed me how fragile my dream is. It also showed me that plywood has issues with internal layers and tends to split or “burn” between them when worked on.
I realized that it would be much better to use solid wood instead. So I made a plank from pine wood (4 mm), and my second attempt turned out much nicer, although still not more stable.
The hull was built from three pieces, with the idea of aligning the grain of the wood along the direction of the hull.
Also the bulkheads were reworked 3 times and it seems not the final version.
Eventually, I put together some kind of frame, and it seems stable enough not to fall apart, but I still feel I need something more solid and stable. So I left it for a couple of days, realizing I was quite unhappy with the results.
Today I came back to try making more planks, but unfortunately my 8-inch table saw, which I was using for the work,
made it clear that I was not doing it in a sufficiently safe way.
Thank God it ended without big injuries, but it was close.
Can anyone point me to the good manual of the way to do it right, please?
For the moment, I am in a free mode research, trying to come up with more ideas
My first attempt to make the hull from plywood showed me how fragile my dream is. It also showed me that plywood has issues with internal layers and tends to split or “burn” between them when worked on.
I realized that it would be much better to use solid wood instead. So I made a plank from pine wood (4 mm), and my second attempt turned out much nicer, although still not more stable.
The hull was built from three pieces, with the idea of aligning the grain of the wood along the direction of the hull.
Also the bulkheads were reworked 3 times and it seems not the final version.
Eventually, I put together some kind of frame, and it seems stable enough not to fall apart, but I still feel I need something more solid and stable. So I left it for a couple of days, realizing I was quite unhappy with the results.Today I came back to try making more planks, but unfortunately my 8-inch table saw, which I was using for the work,
made it clear that I was not doing it in a sufficiently safe way.
Thank God it ended without big injuries, but it was close.
Can anyone point me to the good manual of the way to do it right, please?
For the moment, I am in a free mode research, trying to come up with more ideas
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