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Staghound...Extreme clipper 1850 by rwiederrich 1/96

Rob,
How exactly did you determine which wire underlay would perform so perfectly as a jig to create the impression of riveted copper plates? The results are simply, pardon the pun.... riveting.
 
MThomas said:
I love the way your coppering system looks! Did you 'overlap' the edges of your copper tape, or does the lighting just make it sort of 'look' that way? It's hard to tell.
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If you look closely at this image of Rob's under construction, you'll see two individual copper plates folded over the keel. One's near her stern and the other's about midway on her keel. That tells me these have all been laid individually, side by side and do not overlap. Rob is free to correct me if I'm wrong. FYI: Happy Father's Day to all.

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Monthly Nautical Magazine, April 1855 has an article on the then nearly 4-year, 4 months old McKay California Fleet clipper Stag-Hound. The author concludes that while she outsailed all other clippers which sailed with her, conditions hadn't yet given her an opportunity to prove what her design was really capable of.

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Just experimenting. The drywall sanding mesh is gridded and it worked exactly as intended.

Rob
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Drywall sanding mesh with clothes drying rollers. Brilliant off-lable use of ordinary everyday materials. Looking closely at your individual plates, having seen real ones on the whaler Charles W Morgan and USN frigate USS Constitution "Old Ironsides" I can say they're practically identical in appearance. Seriously, you should copyright this innovative highly accurate and efficient procedure.
 
Vladimir's done yeoman's work on creating Stag Hound hull bulkheads and her sheer profile is perfect as witness Rob's incredibly beautiful model. Still, from his recent description of her aft deck, it seems like her deck is a bit on the slim side. So I'm playing "catch up" to get the most accurate dimensions possible using old-fashioned paper, pencil and precise measurements at 1:96th scale. Here's the Hall diagram for bow and stern. Her Chappelle sheer and deck plans are far more challenging. The scan I'm working with is more skewed than I first recognized. Utilizing the parallel and vertical intersection lines as well as the bulkhead lines, I've been correcting these inaccuracies to hopefully create one whole sheer and deck profile. The last image is the original scan. It's subtle but if you look closesly, you can see how the original scan has non parallel lines. Another confusing issue to be addressed is the stern section is missing a portion so that it's not as nice and even as both fore sections. My latest foray at Staples was a waste of time and money. I'm going back to ye olde fashioned cut & paste with papercutter. At least now it looks like all four sections are true as far as lines being parrallel and perpendicular. If anyone has an inclination and wants to tackle this, you're welcome to print these out and have at it. Stag Hound was 226' (28 & 1/4" at 1:96 scale) from knightheads (vertical line just behind prow) to taffrail (very end of stern) while her beam at the widest point was 40' (5" at 1:96 scale) UPDATE: Even as the corrected Chappelle 4 sections were uploaded, I recognized that while the longitudinal lines were truly parallel, perpendicular lines were not. Consequently, after more revisions, these are my latest results. The fore section is done, the aft works but I'm still not fully satisfied with it.


Here's my results to date:

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She is a much sleeker shallower model for sure. I appreciate Clipperfan's investigation into the more accurate hull contours....but I ain't going back and since we know her narrowest point was only 24.5ft...it is only within the bowing of her hull from there to her max breadth of 40ft that can be contested. These images never show exactly what you want to show and they ALWAYS reveal what you don't want to show....flaws in detail and workmanship.:(
Well...I'm moving onto the next phase...addition of the chainplates and channels. This process takes time and, thus I will have to build mock-up masts to properly attain the correct angles for the chainplates.

So I will be slowing down for this. I also have to make the 60 or so chainplates and their connective hull plates prior to install. But first, I've identified some items that were poorly executed and overlooked that need immediate correction.
A bit of pre-planning is required to get these right.

Rob
 
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She is a much sleeker shallower model for sure. I appreciate Clipperfan's investigation into the more accurate hull contours....but I ain't going back and since we know her narrowest point was only 24.5ft...it is only within the bowing of her hull from there to her max breadth of 40ft that can be contested. These images never show exactly what you want to show and they ALWAYS reveal what you don't want to show....flaws in detail and workmanship.:(
Well...I'm moving onto the next phase...addition of the chainplates and channels. This process takes time and, thus I will have to build mock-up masts to properly attain the correct angles for the chainplates.

So I will be slowing down for this. I also have to make the 60 or so chainplates and their connective hull plates prior to install. But first, I've identified some items that were poorly executed and overlooked that need immediate correction.
A bit of pre-planning is required to get these right.

Rob
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Indeed!
 
Peter Gutterman said:
Indeed!
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Rob, just to clarify my statement about further investigating Chappelle plans is not meant to disparage your excellent craftsmanship which is continually impressive. There is no flaw in your work. As I've repeatedly said, my goal is to aid in reconstruction of the most accurate clipper Stag Hound possible with all sources available. As I investigated minor discrepancies which could result in a less than ideal hull configuration, it dawned on me that an old issue: perspective distortion was bedeviling us again. I realized that one of our deck plan sources was skewed out of alignment due to it being scanned from a thick book. At first, it looked like just the parallel lines were in a small "v" formation as they followed the inward curves of the book. After adjusting for that flaw I later realized that perpendicular lines were also not true and they too were skewed. It's still not perfect but it is far more accurate as now all parallel and perpendicular lines have been corrected as much as possible. Next step is to cut & paste all 4 sections to create a single whole. Then do an accurate tracing incorporating all dimensional specs and laying out all deck furniture elements to ensure meticulous accuracy throughout.
Unless we can get those pages completely flat this is the only way I see forward to eliminate such inaccuracies. Using limited photo editing I've done the preliminary work. The final step will be to recreate deck plans illustrated at 1:96th scale. Stag Hound was 266' knightheads (fore vertical line just behind her bow) to taffrail. That translates to 28 & 1/4th inches. Her body was 40' at her widest beam which is 5" at 1:96th scale. This represents my 5th pass at correcting all errors in the Chappelle plans. Original scan is included for comparison. The Hall bow and stern half plans show her extreme 40" at half-hull design.

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