Well, I steamed several planks for the initial planking. It's a start. Parts that have been steamed bend easier than they did before steaming. It is slow going, but I am in no hurry!
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Kurt Konrath
Kurt Konrath
Another part of the art of ship building in any scale.
I have seen videos where the 1:1 scale builders used steam to soften planks for installing on hull.
I have seen videos where the 1:1 scale builders used steam to soften planks for installing on hull.
Planking underway. Steaming planks to bend continues. I'm trying filler and smoothing as I go. Lots of sanding so I use a rotary tool with a fine sanding disk and a light touch. And I alternatively build each side, a plank at a time, keeping things symmetrical. Got a ways to go!
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So, gentlemen and ladies, a quick question: do you normally just plank away, add filler/putty later? Or do you shape, smooth and form as you go? I'm trying the wood filler as I progress. Its messy. Are the better ways? And do you chamfer the underside of planks for fit?
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Most people seem to fill and sand when planked so you can see the big picture. The whole idea is to bring the entire shape into harmony with what is needed for the second layer. I slightly chamfer the edge of a plank to fit closely to its neighbour when installing on a convex curved surface. I don't think I do so in a concave curve, although it can't hurt.
Thanks!
That is the way of doing it. The old Wikings and sure before them used STEAM. Anyhow Steam together with Drybending its, even more, better to bend the planks. It may be a surprise that a tree, Wood, Planks etc are all built off of "SURPRISINGLY" a big amount of Sugar Molecule-Cellulose, Hemi-Cellulose and Lignin in about a total of more 95- 98%. Cellulose and Hemi-Cellulose ( with 1000 or more Glucose Unit build together and held together with the Lignin - in a huge tri-dimensional matrix. This Hugh Molecule - to be bend .needs either a Mechanical Force (plank Bender is on the Market for us Builders) or very high temperatures, which will destroy some of the links ib this huge molecule (200 º C or more ) where Steam is the main method. Then there Dry benders, where you such the plank in the water a few minutes -sucking op water, which comes to the dry benders will form steam too.
The wood of any kind can be transformed even into BIO-Fuel with the help of some other biochemical products (ENZYMES) partly from the Company I worked for 42 Years
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Looks quite well. I the only little thing I noticed when I made the image bigger, is that small triangle at the the sternpost- Keep going
