After a day off in Winnipeg, we're back at it. We had a few more construction templates to cut out, including a couple of frames, the "apron" (kind of like a proto-stem for planking purposes, the actual stem is laminated on top of the apron) and the centre-plate case. The latter was a bit of a pain, because that sheet of the plans is distorted, so we couldn't directly trace the shape.
As it turns out, though, there were good measurements for ALMOST every dimension of the CP case, so drafting up a template was pretty simple. We even got to do a bit of lofting to fit the curve of the keel:
Once all the frames etc. were roughed out with a jigsaw, it was off to the bandsaw for some fine work. You can see Bandsaw Girl in action below. Final fairing of the patterns is mostly belt- and disk-sander work, with a little file and drum-sander work for the fiddly bits.
Tomorrow we'll probably start the whole process again, but this time tracing the patterns onto our precious marine plywood. I had my doubts, but Spacial Perception Girl used scale tracings to demonstrate quite convincingly the feasibility of getting the frames etc. out of four sheets of ply. Yay!
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Hmmmm... since this isn't an inter-planetary sailing ship mightn't spatial be a more fitting term to use :-)
You know, that's been bothering me since I wrote it. I think I'll leave it that way just so the commentary makes sense, but yes, you're quite correct.
Although if I can find a way to make this thing go interplanetary, rest assured I will. ;-)
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