YUANQING BLUENOSE - Don Robinson

I JUST ORDERED A SET, THE SHIPPING WAS $800 3 DAY SHIPPING, I STILL MY ORDER THE SET THAT UWE SHOWS BUT IN THE NO. 1 CUT, DON DO NOT WANT TO HIJACK YOUR LOG IF I AM PLEASE LET ME KNOW, WHAT TYPE OF GLUE ARE YOU USING ANY WELL BOND OR JUST REGULAR PVA, ALSO CHECK OU WHAT I AM DOING WITH A FRAME BOARD AS I CALL IT. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS DON
 
@donfarr not to worry. Tell me that's a typo and should be $8.00 not $800.00. lol
I use weldbond pva for the frames, ca dries too fast. From what I can see you are doing things right. When I clamp mine I just use two clamps, one clamp on each joint, but I have only done the smaller frames so far.
 
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Hey all a very quick update:

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Here pieces 17 and 18 are ready to be glued on to the keel. Piece has been bevelled to a knives edge as Heinrich mentioned.

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Use lots of clamps as the bevelled edge tends to want to curl up a little. The main problem I had here was the glue drying too fast, by the time I had the piece in position and started to clamp a lot of the glue had already started to dry. I'm sure the 25-30% humidity in my house has lots to do with that!

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Ok, here I have done some work fairing the frames but in reality I just wanted to see how things are going to look, the little boy in me took over. :p

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And a close up. As you can see more fine tuning is required and normally I would not show a picture such as this but I was excited and thought you guys might want to see. What I have done so far is to lightly sand and file the notches until the frames fit on the keel, not much is required so be careful. What is needed now is to work on the frames to get them all at the same level. when you are bevelling the frames be careful as you can see some(most) of mine are a little rounded and not angled properly, a little more caution during bevelling would have helped. This can all be fixed but a lot of it could have been prevented during the initial bevelling. So don't let the little boy get the best of you, try and hold your excitement level down! Good luck!:D

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The money shot!! Isn't this cool?

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I can't get enough of this!!ROTF Nothing is glued so these frames are holding up the keel all on their own!!
One last note, when fitting the frames to the keel make the keel notches just a tiny bit on the loose side to help fitting the keel on afterwards. I really don't know yet what the easiest way of fitting the keel on to the frames is going to be when this is all finished, as fitting just these 11 frames took some doing but we'll cross that bridge later.
Have fun and Thanks for checking things out.
 
Great progress Don...looking very good!
You guys are killing me! I want to start on mine so bad, but I’m trying to finish the Cazador. I fear if I start on the Bluenose, I will not finish the Cazador until after the Bluenose. :(
I do have a plan for the jig and keel. I’m thinking a rotisserie style setup. Make two a-frames with holes, for each end of the jig. And put dowels on the ends of the jig frame. Then insert a few frames towards the bow and stern to properly locate the keel. Glue frames to keel and jig. Then turn over and drop all the rest of the frames in from the top. I think that may work. Also have a pin for locking into position at 180 degrees out. That way you can insert frames by dropping in, and turn over to fair frames. Any thoughts on this?
I can CAD something up if needed.
 
Dean62 said:
Great progress Don...looking very good!
You guys are killing me! I want to start on mine so bad, but I’m trying to finish the Cazador. I fear if I start on the Bluenose, I will not finish the Cazador until after the Bluenose. :(
I do have a plan for the jig and keel. I’m thinking a rotisserie style setup. Make two a-frames with holes, for each end of the jig. And put dowels on the ends of the jig frame. Then insert a few frames towards the bow and stern to properly locate the keel. Glue frames to keel and jig. Then turn over and drop all the rest of the frames in from the top. I think that may work. Also have a pin for locking into position at 180 degrees out. That way you can insert frames by dropping in, and turn over to fair frames. Any thoughts on this?
I can CAD something up if needed.
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Nice idea Dean.
Perhaps placing some frames in the front and back and then clamp the bottom in a screw, like this, from the intro-log. Then you can fit them from above:
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Regards, Peter
 
@Peter Voogt and @Dean62 these are both great ideas. Something is needed, when I did my few I was reaching inside to push and pull the frames into position which will not work so good as more frames are added. I would like to see your idea Dean, if you have the time. Maybe with some good drawings Heinrich could convince Yuanqing to include something in the kit
 
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DonRobinson said:
@Dean62 , You maybe the wise one by not starting now. I promised myself I would only work on the Bluenose one day a week. It's now been 10 days since I've worked on my HMS Ontario!!!!o_O:p
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Hi Guys,
After the first feelings of the material and building the first part of the keel, I got the guts to put it aside again.
But when I read your logs ........ man o man ......... but The Lee looked at me helplessly.
Heinrich said:
And the Haarlem is laying at her mooring - angry at being neglected.
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And Heinrich has the same!

Choice stress!
The Duc is also put aside .......
Now this (other wise?) man ;) is busy with building The Lee to a finish.
And after that: It's Bluenose time!
Regards, Peter
 
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