I noticed in the factory build photos (I think it was in that build) that some of the deck furniture and even maybe a deckhouse corner or two was left kind of hanging out there in thin air. That bothered me and I resolved to make at least some short planks where support would logically be needed. Short, but long enough to be at least terminated prototypically at the CL of a deck beam; don't want a deck plank "hanging out there in thin air".
Unsupported corners are no-go's to me, that's one of the reasons I went for a scratch built deck.
I can understand this, Johan. For sure the deck planks must have the same width. 10 times 0,1 ……. Ouch!. And the nibbled side planks doesn't like that either. Unless you nibble that plank by plank. Perhaps it’s now to late, but come along for a cup of coffee in Woerkum and we saw all you planks to the same width.Some more fwd deck work done today.
To my utter dismay I discovered that the 3mm wooden strips I ordered for the deck planking show a deviation in width of close to 12%. Minimum width I measured was 2,9mm, the maximum width 3,25mm. Since I was randomly selecting from the strips, this became an issue with the deck planking...
Now I have to be honest; my hull is not perfectly symmetrical, but while I was planking the deck I encountered some funny things. At one point I noticed I had to apply a little a little force to get the planks to sit properly against their neighbors. I found that rather strange, especially since at one point along the planking the phenomenon disappeared. But hey, one doesn't look a gift horse in the mouth, so I merrily continued. Today I was working on completing the planking of the fwd deck on the starboard side and that's when I noticed some slight differences in the the location of apertures for deck equipment and such in the planks, relative to the edges of the planks.
Once I started looking op into that I found that a) the hull is not perfectly symmetrical; not all provisions for the deck equipment and hatches are perfectly centered, not by much, but still and b) the differences in the width of the wooden strips, -0,1mm and +0,25mm . The deviations, in absolute value, are not large, but since they do accumulate, they became became a royal pain...
When thinking about desirable tolerances on one's build, I'm inclined to state that, depending on scale, say in the 1:48 to 1:86 range, a tolerance of +/-0,2mm would be preferable. That is an accuracy almost impossible to achieve by using handtools only. Maybe not for the extremely gifted among us, but I think, generally speaking, I can't build comfortably within a tolerance less than +/-0,5mm, on a good day.
A long time ago, while attending tech school, we were expected to file to this tolerance of plus/minus 0,2mm, plus rectangular, plus planar. I remember that as soon as the teachers left the workshop, there was a run on the machining equipment for a little tweaking. Trying to manually get within that tolerance range was a nightmare...
Ah, a cup of coffee, that sounds nice and thanks for your offer. Before taking you up on it, I will check my stock first and sort the strips on width. Based on what I have I will come up with a plan.
Thanks so much Heinrich, as I said I t wasn't as easy as I thought it would be.
Thank you so much, Johan!
Good afternoon Johan. Another challenge successfully met. Who would have thought the deck planks had such variances in width. Your fire deck so far is looking stunning despite these challenges. I think the open SB is already creating a vivid impact. Cheers Grant
Thanks for your compliments, Grant. In all, I find this a challenging build and I don't even have the complex masts, yards, gaffs and standing and running rigging you have to deal with.
Thanks Dean!Nice progress Johan, deck is looking good. And remember, once all the deck furnishings go on, most of those little things that bother you about the deck will go unnoticed… due to all the eye candy on deck.
I hope your admiral has a speedy recovery!
I was referring to the deck you are installing with individual boards. Anything you are unhappy with, will most likely go unnoticed once you install all of the deck furnishings.
Well, I really hope you're right.I was referring to the deck you are installing with individual boards. Anything you are unhappy with, will most likely go unnoticed once you install all of the deck furnishings.
Didn't even know it was there...
As you can see, the Bluenose is causing cracks in the walls...
They are everywhere, causing more of less problems.
