YQ Bluenose by Johan [COMPLETED BUILD]

Unfortunately I could not behave myself and snuck into the shipyard a couple of times on new years' eve because I could not stand these aft cabin doors being as they were.
So I slightly modified the doors and re-aligned the hinges. IMHO the door configuration has improved by leaps and bounds.
One of the hinges still sits a tad too low, so I might have to change its' position. Also the doors still require a little touch up, but I'll let it be for a couple of days to see if I really enjoy this configuration.
Oh, and for those who wonder why I did not use the YQ-supplied single door? There is photographic evidence suggesting the Bluenose aft cabin had double access doors, that's why.

Doors partially opened:
FFC42706-7221-4B62-B84B-9CA004A324F5.jpeg

Doors (and hatch) fully closed:
CF74F701-A9CB-404A-B2D2-279AAD2EC9E2.jpeg
 
Wow there are a lot of celebrations and well-wishes in order here - from the oliebollen (and I must say, those look mouth-watering), to the advent of the Bluenose journey to where you are with the build today. Reflecting on the past year, it was certainly not a good one for most people, and yet, we have so much to be thankful for.

Now to tell us more about the Johannus, please.
 
It is admirable that you are adjusting the doors, Johan.
RDN1954 said:
Oh, and for those who wonder why I did not use the YQ-supplied single door? There is photographic evidence suggesting the Bluenose aft cabin had double access doors, that's why.
Click to expand...
And indeed, there is an old photo in the Novascotia Archives with both doors:
CF3C74E0-117D-4BE7-B509-C1CF993D4E4F.jpeg
Both doors square opened. The starboard one can be seen through the shipwheel.
And a lot of details for the rigging proces on the aft of the Bluenose.
Regards, Peter
 
Heinrich said:
Wow there are a lot of celebrations and well-wishes in order here - from the oliebollen (and I must say, those look mouth-watering), to the advent of the Bluenose journey to where you are with the build today. Reflecting on the past year, it was certainly not a good one for most people, and yet, we have so much to be thankful for.

Now to tell us more about the Johannus, please.
Click to expand...
Too true Heinrich, 2022 saw a lot of tragedy, both in general, as well as personal.
Therefore it's rather therapeutic to have hobbies like ours, where we can free our minds, albeit for just a few hours, from the day-to-day worries about our loved ones, our health, wars raging, etc, etc.
The Johannus, yes, that provides me with another source of therapy; music. Johannus is a Dutch digital classic organ builder and some 20 years ago I bought this little, not so little beauty. In the past years I've spend many, many hours studying and practicing, enjoying a variety of music, from the classics to the modern hymns. Music has the uncanny capability to bring me to tears...
An organ has typically a number of voices, or stops and may consist of one or more keyboards, really large organs may have even upto seven keyboards, and pedals, from an octave till two and a half octaves. The voices are intended to duplicate the sounds from other instruments, although over the years specific "organ" voices have been developed.
In the western hemisphere, many countries developed their own, typical organ building style; a beautiful example of that are the imposing organs from Cavaillé-Coll, a French organ builder from the romantic era.
My Johannes has a full pedal, ranging over two octaves, two keyboards and offers 27 voices or stops.
It also allows me to switch from the clear baroque tones to the more "softened", less clear sounds from the romantic era.
Some more information on the Johannus organs can be found here (no, I don't hold shares for the company): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannus

Below a picture of the Johannus Opus 10, of which an example proudly sits in my music room:
C5AF7A8F-150C-4AB2-9A73-9075AD99D9FB.jpeg
 
Peter Voogt said:
It is admirable that you are adjusting the doors, Johan.

And indeed, there is an old photo in the Novascotia Archives with both doors:
View attachment 348641
Both doors square opened. The starboard one can be seen through the shipwheel.
And a lot of details for the rigging proces on the aft of the Bluenose.
Regards, Peter
Click to expand...
That was indeed the picture (which shows most clearly the aft cabin doors as they once were) I used to go for the two-door configuration. Admittedly, I also read through your build log posts, concerning the aft cabin and noticed you apparently used this picture as well for your door configuration.
Looking closely, which you undoubtedly did, one can see that the doors are curved at the topside. That little detail was just a couple of steps above my paygrade. ;)

PS Those rigging details... I'm ever so glad I decided to go for a two mast, fore- and aft rigged model. Even then, the amount of details to consider are staggering.
 
RDN1954 said:
Too true Heinrich, 2022 saw a lot of tragedy, both in general, as well as personal.
Therefore it's rather therapeutic to have hobbies like ours, where we can free our minds, albeit for just a few hours, from the day-to-day worries about our loved ones, our health, wars raging, etc, etc.
The Johannus, yes, that provides me with another source of therapy; music. Johannus is a Dutch digital classic organ builder and some 20 years ago I bought this little, not so little beauty. In the past years I've spend many, many hours studying and practicing, enjoying a variety of music, from the classics to the modern hymns. Music has the uncanny capability to bring me to tears...
An organ has typically a number of voices, or stops and may consist of one or more keyboards, really large organs may have even upto seven keyboards, and pedals, from an octave till two and a half octaves. The voices are intended to duplicate the sounds from other instruments, although over the years specific "organ" voices have been developed.
In the western hemisphere, many countries developed their own, typical organ building style; a beautiful example of that are the imposing organs from Cavaillé-Coll, a French organ builder from the romantic era.
My Johannes has a full pedal, ranging over two octaves, two keyboards and offers 27 voices or stops.
It also allows me to switch from the clear baroque tones to the more "softened", less clear sounds from the romantic era.
Some more information on the Johannus organs can be found here (no, I don't hold shares for the company): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannus

Below a picture of the Johannus Opus 10, of which an example proudly sits in my music room:
View attachment 348642
Click to expand...
Thank you, Johan. I appreciate the time you have taken to answer me so comprehensively. I am a lover of all quality things and music was an inherent part of my upbringing (though I'm utterly useless at it). My father made a few records in which he sang and played guitar, so I have always been around good guitars. My first wife was a music teacher and performing pianist, so I quickly had to adapt to the more classical world as well. About organs I know next to nothing but am still very much appreciative of something that is an art form, and which bears testimony to quality.
 
Hi Johan, just catching up with your build after a long break. Your Bluenose is looking better all the time and your attention to detail is going to make for a great looking model in the end Thumbsup
 
Peter Voogt said:
It is admirable that you are adjusting the doors, Johan.

And indeed, there is an old photo in the Novascotia Archives with both doors:
View attachment 348641
Both doors square opened. The starboard one can be seen through the shipwheel.
And a lot of details for the rigging proces on the aft of the Bluenose.
Regards, Peter
Click to expand...
Aieeii-i-i . . .!
Those unmodelable (for me so far) internally stropped blocks:(
 
RDN1954 said:
Unfortunately I could not behave myself and snuck into the shipyard a couple of times on new years' eve because I could not stand these aft cabin doors being as they were.
So I slightly modified the doors and re-aligned the hinges. IMHO the door configuration has improved by leaps and bounds.
One of the hinges still sits a tad too low, so I might have to change its' position. Also the doors still require a little touch up, but I'll let it be for a couple of days to see if I really enjoy this configuration.
Oh, and for those who wonder why I did not use the YQ-supplied single door? There is photographic evidence suggesting the Bluenose aft cabin had double access doors, that's why.

Doors partially opened:
View attachment 348632

Doors (and hatch) fully closed:
View attachment 348633
Click to expand...
Yesterday I had to admit defeat on the hinged aft cabin doors; I couldn't get them to work consistently, without one of the doors becoming "unhinged", pun intended.
I tried solving the issue by repositioning the hinge in question, but that became a downward spiral. As a result I had to decide to abandon the hinged doors, instead I opted to use, like I did on the companionway, sliding panels.
Once I have something presentable to show, I will... Sick
 
RDN1954 said:
Yesterday I had to admit defeat on the hinged aft cabin doors; I couldn't get them to work consistently, without one of the doors becoming "unhinged", pun intended.
I tried solving the issue by repositioning the hinge in question, but that became a downward spiral. As a result I had to decide to abandon the hinged doors, instead I opted to use, like I did on the companionway, sliding panels.
Once I have something presentable to show, I will... Sick
Click to expand...
At risk of being an irritant, please permit me to once again offer the idea of trying Evergreen Styrene, this time for fabricating your doors. A door panel cut from a sheet of .010" or .015" would be a scale 3/4" or 1" thick. Then I would cut and fabricate the rails and stiles using strips of likely .020" X .080", liquid glue welding them to the sheet panels. The rails and stiles would add the right stiffness to each door panel.
 
Alf in Iowa said:
At risk of being an irritant, please permit me to once again offer the idea of trying Evergreen Styrene, this time for fabricating your doors. A door panel cut from a sheet of .010" or .015" would be a scale 3/4" or 1" thick. Then I would cut and fabricate the rails and stiles using strips of likely .020" X .080", liquid glue welding them to the sheet panels. The rails and stiles would add the right stiffness to each door panel.
Click to expand...
Morning Alf,

No, not being irritant at all, one should consider all available and feasible options...
Upon your earlier advice, I already used Evergreen Styrene for the intermediate windlass drive train with great success. Based on that experience I did consider using Evergreen again for both the companionway- as well as the aft cabin entry.
What I ended up with for the companionway entry was the application of 2 copper guide rails, 0.080"x0.080" with a thickness of 0.020", using wooden strips with a thickness of 0.040" as sliding panels.
When the hinged doors option of the aft cabin went belly up, I reconsidered the Evergreen option, but decided against it based on trying to maintain some consistency of my build.
An observation I have to make is that the smaller the parts become, the more difficulty I have handling these parts. I find it very hard to impossible to work small parts; filing, cutting, sanding, applying adhesive, positioning... Whether that's due to lacking experience, the proper tools, or just being too clumsy, or a combination of the three, I don't know.:rolleyes:

For a next build I'm quite sure Evergreen Styrene will be added to the raw material section of my shipyard.

Thanks for your advice! Thumbsup

Johan
 
RDN1954 said:
I find it very hard to impossible to work small parts; filing, cutting, sanding, applying adhesive, positioning... Whether that's due to lacking experience, the proper tools, or just being too clumsy, or a combination of the three, I don't know.
Click to expand...
Hi Johan. I think it are the sizes, experience and tools. And in your case, nothing with clumsy. When I see you playing your ‘Johannes’ with both hands and feet and all four separately from each other, then there is nothing wrong with that hands. And the first day/week/month/year you did not played the nice etudes you now can.
Just 3 basic rules: Practice, practice and practice.
See you tomorrow!
Regards, Peter
 
Peter Voogt said:
Hi Johan. I think it are the sizes, experience and tools. And in your case, nothing with clumsy. When I see you playing your ‘Johannes’ with both hands and feet and all four separately from each other, then there is nothing wrong with that hands. And the first day/week/month/year you did not played the nice etudes you now can.
Just 3 basic rules: Practice, practice and practice.
See you tomorrow!
Regards, Peter
Click to expand...
Thanks for your kind words, Peter.
I find playing an instrument is totally different from modeling (and a lot easier...)
That a aside, I think your 3 basic rules sums it up nicely. :)

Looking forward seeing you tomorrow.

Johan
 
RDN1954 said:
Morning Alf,

No, not being irritant at all, one should consider all available and feasible options...
Upon your earlier advice, I already used Evergreen Styrene for the intermediate windlass drive train with great success. Based on that experience I did consider using Evergreen again for both the companionway- as well as the aft cabin entry.
What I ended up with for the companionway entry was the application of 2 copper guide rails, 0.080"x0.080" with a thickness of 0.020", using wooden strips with a thickness of 0.040" as sliding panels.
When the hinged doors option of the aft cabin went belly up, I reconsidered the Evergreen option, but decided against it based on trying to maintain some consistency of my build.
An observation I have to make is that the smaller the parts become, the more difficulty I have handling these parts. I find it very hard to impossible to work small parts; filing, cutting, sanding, applying adhesive, positioning... Whether that's due to lacking experience, the proper tools, or just being too clumsy, or a combination of the three, I don't know.:rolleyes:

For a next build I'm quite sure Evergreen Styrene will be added to the raw material section of my shipyard.

Thanks for your advice! Thumbsup

Johan
Click to expand...
Well, your journey log is invaluable to this octogenerian who _does_ suffer the creeping clumsiness. I like how you verbalize on the keyboard, your mistakes and corrections.
 
Alf in Iowa said:
Well, your journey log is invaluable to this octogenerian who _does_ suffer the creeping clumsiness. I like how you verbalize on the keyboard, your mistakes and corrections.
Click to expand...
That’s exactly what build logs are for, sharing ones' successes and mistakes ánd how we overcame our little errors. Plus there's an awfull lot of ideas floating around to use and there's even a lot more to learn from other build logs; internally stropped blocks, I never heard of them before. I'm sitting on the edge of my seat, anticipating your solution to the issue...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top