Timber Required.

I am trying to form my edging plank round the bow of the ship. See the pictures below of how I am trying to achieve that, I have used a piece of plywood, but when cut to 5mm wide, It is just breaking at the short grain end, Any ideas of what material I could use to stop this breaking, or any other tips.

First picture is the bow with one bulwark plank in place.







The next step is to make a paper template of the curve.






I then put the paper template on the deck and trapped the bulwark plank on top of the template and drew around the bulwark plank to get the radius curve.





I then marked the curve on the plywood and cut to the curve.












I worked out pretty well, apart from the fact it keeps breaking at the short grain point.
Any advice on material I should be using and a supplier would be very helpfull to apprentice builder.

Mo

Just an idea, make template of the full curve, like the half template you already did but a full round of the curve your after. Then soak your wood for a good couple of hours fit around the template with elastic bands/clamps leave to set overnight this should leave you with the desired full curve your after
Andy

hi Mo,

I am not sure if my last message got to you so, I will reiterate.

Isuggested that you made the margin plank the same way as the shipwrights did and suggested the you look at Chris's build or, krt2's log on medelshipworld.com Click logs for kits, the wooden kits and fially, Surprise in the index.

Regards & Good luck,

Iain