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Hello, dear friends and colleagues, I am going to show you the construction of the Sane Felipe 1690 ship. I hope you will enjoy seeing the construc...

 With measurements in hand I now can enter them into a spreadsheet.    Then I can create curves that run vertically on the doors. [image.png] And ...

  This is a project that started to take shape sometime in the mid 2010s. I’m going to hold back some of the details and let the story unfold on it...

Fitted the braces and reinforcing ring to the inside of the soundboard. [IMG_2648.jpeg][IMG_2650.jpeg] Fitted the soundboard to the body. I suppose...

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The last thing i will have to make are the sails for the windmill. [image.png] These are one the drawing with a lot of details, but I'm not able to...

The soundboard is Master Grade Sitka Spruce. Came in rough at about 3/16" thick. I glued the book matched halves together the cut out the oversized...

Back panel glued-up and trimmed flush to the sides. [IMG_2634.jpeg][IMG_2635.jpeg][IMG_2637.jpeg] Installed soundboard lining and sanded flush to t...

This is probably the most involved piece in the project (yes, even more than the doors). If you refer back to the first part in this blog you will ...

Installed the linings for the back panel and sanded flush to the sides. Laser cut the back panel and all the braces. When I get my 120 grit sand pa...

 Since this cabinet is so small I ended up buying some artists brushes for oil paints. [image.png] They really helped with the application of the...

Been a while since the last update.  I went a little crazy last week and picked up a Jet 1020 thickness sander. The local supplier had it on a cle...