| Galleon Wodnik (part IV) - Decking, Treenails, Fittings |
| Written by Jerzy Bin | ||||||||||
| Sunday, 22 April 2007 | ||||||||||
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For the decks I chose african avodire wood, which came out really nicely. Very light wood. Treenails are drawn from bamboo bought at local supermarket as sushi or barbecue sticks. I had number of avodire planks 6 m thick, I painted them black on both sides and then sawed 1 mm thick decking planks with black edges imitating culking. Looks very nice I must say.
Whole deck and the hull were drilled with 0.8mm drilling bit and filled with treenails. On the deck I placed treenails on every beam, the hull however has them only on every second frame. Other frames will get metal nails that will stick slightly out. I will nail them after final sanding of the ports and treatment with wooden oils.
Before closing the deck of course I had to build few fittings that will not be reachable later on but will be visible through the gratings and those are capstan and fife rail and gun barrels. Capstan and rail are made of sapeli wood and were treated with oil. Barrels are casted from tin. See whole article on casting here .
One more year and Wodnik will be able to sail away from my shipyard!
I have compiled small video from treenailing process, and placed in the gallery section under Users Gellaries - Drawing Treenails
And here under seperate gallery I have put ALL pictures I have made during the build so far: Gallen Wodnik Gallery
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