I soaked this Bendable Beech for almost 24 Hours. Probably didn’t need to go that long.
Anyway, I used my Iron and carefully heated while bending the rail around the Jig with a lateral bend.
Bending Rail around Jig
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Making a Jig for Bending Railings
I ordered some special wood from Australia. I ordered it from Modeler’s Central. It’s called Bendable Beach. I’m going to make the bend laterally, which this wood is the only one capable of bending like that without breaking!
Bitts for Main Bulwarks Rails
This is some painstaking work making these Tiny Bitts…
The Pieces the kit gives you are these 4×4 Mansonia pieces which I have to round out the bottom and use a Razor Blade and File to shape into the Bitts.
The Bottom is what they gave me.
I first used a Square File and rounded the square to a small dowel.
Once you Razor in around 1.5mm from the bottom, you Razor in from the top down at a slight angle, holding it with some Parallel Grip Pliers at an angle and use the X-Acto like a Plane and slice down being careful to stop as you approach the Razored in line…
At least this Manzoni Wood is pretty strong for the Bitts.
Can you believe that the Kit gave you only EXACTLY 34 3x4x15mm pre rough cut pieces?!?!!!! .. I’m surprised they didn’t just give you a piece of 3x4mm and tell you to cut your own pieces!!! .. 🤔🙄😲
I’ve had to keep making new ones. It has taken me nearly 2 weeks to make 34 of them I am ashamed to say!!! .. I keep striving to have them even!!! .. 🤔🙄😲
Taffail Planking
I’m just using the .5x3mm Walnut Planking for the Taffails.
I’m just using Contact Cement.
Forward / Main Bulwarks Rail
Minwax Colonial Maple 223 for the Stain. To match the Hull which I will leave as natural Wood.
I’m currently soaking the 2x7mm Mazsonia Wood that is the Rail for the Main Deck.
After installing the Chain-Wales, they kind of got in the way of Tracing..
I soaked the wood a few hours in Ammonia and Water.
Staining Hull
Third Planking Upper Hull
Here I’m essentially doing a Third Planking because I screwed up with the Gun Ports!!! .. I DO like the cleaner look though… 🙄🤔👍
I’m telling myself that the HM Bark Endeavor was well reinforced for the Antarctic / Arctic conditions…
I have a sliver of a gap from the last Plank to the Wale. It’s barely perceptible so I’m just going to leave it… 🙄🤔
That sliver isn’t worth it… Yet… It will drive me crazy until I fix it!!! .. 🙄🤔😲
Third try Upper Rubbing Strake / Chain-Wale
This is my third try with the Upper Rubbing Strake and Channel combo.
First time was with the Walnut 1.5x3mm Stakes, next was with the 1.5×3 Basswood but with the Gun Ports. This time it’s my last 1.5x3x650mm Basswood Strakes. I might have to buy some more. Although I still can cut down some 1.5×5 Basswood Planks I have lying around on my NovelLife Mini Hobby Table Saw …
UGH… I STILL screwed up when I broke it while trying to attach the forward Chain-Wale to the Rubbing Strake. I repaired it with SuperGlue.
Taking a break… 🙄🤔👍
Decided against Gun Ports
I decided against using Gun Ports. Mainly because I messed up in their placement!!!
Chain / Chain Wale / Channel
chain-wale
Also channel.A broad, thick plank that projects horizontally from each of a ship’s sides abreast a mast (distinguished as the fore, main, or mizzen channel accordingly), serving to extend the base for the shrouds, which support the mast. chains Small platforms built into the sides of a ship to spread the shrouds to a more advantageous angle. Also used as a platform for manual depth sounding.
