Hi all you shipbuilders,

A couple of questions which I have which I am sure you can answer for me.

1. Building up ribs, the preference/recommended method seems to be using card and super glue which included soaking the card with super glue. Is there any reason why wooden planks can't be used particularly when I have to build up rib 16 by approx 1 mm?

2. When planking what is the best order of preparing the planks. Bend, taper and then chamfer?

Hello Atholm,

The method that I use is first to cut the plank to required length, next shaping the plank, that is tapering, after which I then chamfer the edge and finally, work on the bend.
There may be other ways but this is the my personal preference through the experience of this build - this being my first attempt at anything like this.
Through experience I found that bending the plank first made the other 2 operations that much more difficult and chamferring before tapering negated the effort of the chamferring where the tapering had been done.

Hope this helps and happy building
Daffy09

"Good judgement comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement"

Thanks Maties, must appreciated

Athol