Woodworking in miniature

Wow…That is truly amazing.

Double wow. Thats something else Gary. It all takes time doesn’t it. I have been building my bar for the last 5-6 years so I have some idea how you feel. One day both of us might get a spurt along.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Yikes! That is a seriously ambitious project.

I have a doll house I started for my daughter. Now 3 years has past and I am still occasionally doing the shingles… Tedious as hell… Maybe when I have a grandkid some day it will be done.

-- making sawdust....

and so why wouldn’t this count as woodworking? You’ve had to measure, cut, shape, join…. 8000 little pieces

that is So impressive—especially “those little dots”.. wow.

what’s left to be done? And what’s the next step?

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

That is very cool and the detail is beautiful. It has to be some seriously tedious work.

I commend you for even tackling such a project.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

A very impressive piece of work. The detail is amazing. How, pray tell, did you get those dowels in? I think my eyesight just got worse looking at all that fine work.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Gary that is truely a legacy craft. The art form is all but dead except for what you are creating .
Bravo and good on you.

Take as long as it takes in this mad world we endure.

regards

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Fantastic work, Gary!

I am much too big on instant gratification to ever undertake something like that.

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Wow! was it a kit or all hand crafted? I’d have no patience for that, way to small. Hats off to you for that.

-- Marty Ohio

Looks like very intricate, difficult work. Very impressive.

-- John

I would give it a vote for wood working.
If you were to look at WikiPedia the definition is ”Woodworking is the process of building, making or carving something using wood”.
Your boat would fit into the definition.

-- don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things

Hello Gary;
—-now one starts to understand where you get your love for ’wood joinery’ at….!

When you say; “two layers ’overlapped at the joints’ for strength”, might I inquire as to what are the wood joints you are using here….half laps or….? And then the trenails….’wood art’ a-much. And then in pieces such as this, we learn patience and also the meaning of getting bored….plus the maybe’s of some-day.

Great wood piece here Gary and thanks for sharing….

Thank you.
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Thanks for all your comments. I really appreciate them.

MsDebbie – What’s left to be done? Well, there’s the rest of the deck and inside planking, building the upper deck and planking it. Then there’s all the details. This is what it should look like when finished. I plan on adding
about three inches of the masts above deck.

Russel – All the little dowels were actually easy except for the tediousness. There is a guy I know in California
living in a log cabin who builds things in his garage with his son-in law. He makes a small treenail making
attachment for a dremel tool.

http://vanda-layindustries.com/html/treenail_maker.html

That made making the treenails a lot easier than using a draw plate. I took a jewelers screwdriver and sharpened the end and made a little dent where each trenail went. Then drilled the hole with a
dremel tool using the dents as a location to start the drill.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Okay Gary;

There are several doctors I can recommend for you, (I’ve personally tested them out), well actually only a couple, the others committed suicide. No note so they can’t pin it on me.

My first thought was wow, what a great project, I have to do this too. Then I took my pills and I feel better now.

Absolutely amazing workmanship!

The stand is a whale of an idea, too.

Lee
p.s. the pepsi looks good too, but on a project like that switch to beer.

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Gary,

That is an amazing piece of woodwork/art! Did you have plans for this?

Complicated projects that take so long to complete, sometimes don’t get finished for a long time (sometimes never…). At least that’s how it has gone for me, although I have never attempted anything of this magnitude.

This is beautiful. I hope you’ll have the patience (and time) to finish it someday.

-- Tom, Surfside Beach, SC - Romans 8:28

Holy cow, that’s absolutely amazing!

Did you cast the cannon yourself as well? Do they fire BB’s?

-- Living on the square...

Tom – Yes, I used plans! I would have been lost without them.

Here they are:
http://www.dlumberyard.com/Hahn/CONFEDERACY/confederacy.pdf

Lee – There are the plans, for when you come down from your pills.

You can get the wood kit here:
http://www.dlumberyard.com/shop/index.htm?c40.htm&1

Gary

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

EEEGADS!!! I just looked at the plans, and I need Lee’s pills NOW. That is outrageous. Now I’m really curious about the tools you used to build this. When I was making doll houses I had some special (read small) tools. If you can, I’d love to see some pictures.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Gary,
I’m sure you can fit it in, alongside building Harpsichords from scratch, and supplying tool maintenance doofuses like myself with valuable, cost saving information (big thanks, BTW). Focus. LOL.
You are an amazing woodworker.

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

...but where do you find the little tiny trees to build it with?

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Isn’t that what those bonzai trees are for?

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

Wow. What a project, I can understand why its been drawn out so long. Very impressive.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

Lookin’ great Gary!

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

Very cool project! I used to do a lot of model making when I was a kid. I appreciate the work that goes into something like that. Looks really good.

-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com

wow thats really odd every time i try to download the plans for one of these i keep getting a full page ad. for some re hab outfit in miami !! lol dang , you gotta have some hair on yer raisons to take that on ! great work

Gary. You amaze me. I would think that about 1 week a quarter would allow you to get done in your lifetime. and in the other weeks ask you fellow lumberjocks, who still have their eyesight to come in and fill in the blanks.

Great job. I’m glad this isn’t being made out of a 2 X 4.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Hay! Gary
Way to intricate for me. You are doing a super job.
God bless

-- Gene, a Christian in Virginia

HA HA DENNIS…

Gary…amazing…as always…

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

AND SOOO TRUE KARSON!!!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...fun is beautiful...just trying to have some fun...

Frank – The rib joints are indeed half lap joints.

You can see how I constructed my ship here:
http://www.geocities.com/valja16mn/boatstart.html

This guy started out with a timbering set he purchased. I started with an 8/4 slab of maple
and a bunch of logs.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

This is crazy amazing, Gary. I have to echo others with a Wow and an Eeegads!

-- Jeff, St. Paul, MN

It took me longer to build a a flat bottom pond boat. I can’t imagine how long that little ole ship would take. You are truely an artist. What types of sedatives do you take to finshish something like this? Termite

-- "Hey ya'll lets make some sawdust."

Get er done brother! awesome!

-- www.flickr.com/photos/egamarine/

WOW!

I can’t seem to find the proper words for this one.

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

I love it. But get it done man…........ Modeling is my first love. I have done a couple of ships, but not one to this insanity. Your Confederacy looks real good. The links you added are also great. Thanks for sharing.

-- Brian's Table Top Toys http://home.mountaincable.net/~bgraham/

Yikes! I don’t have the skill nor the patience.

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

Your “Confederacy” is simply amazing. My ancestors were shipbuilders and so your project has awakened the memory of those great——-great——-great grandfathers. A job half done is always a little stress on your brain. So finish it with determination to eliminate the stress. Best luck.
Sharad

-- patanjali

Gary, don’t know how I missed this one the first time around – but you are an ambitious man. I really admire you guys that have that kind of patience and ability. Take your time, don’t rush. 12 years is a good steady pace :-))

One of the guys on the CarveWright Forum is a model ship builder. He uses his CarveWright to cut all of his small parts, like the ribs, jibs and whatever else you call the small parts.

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

I can’t imagine what it takes to build something like that. I am so easily distracted from tedious parts of projects. My suggestion leave out your supplies, and a plate of cookies and milk, maybe some elves will finish it up for you. If not, display it as it is as a diorama of the ship building process. barring that, perhaps if you count the remaining pieces in metric, perhaps it won’t seem so daunting.

-- www.robneves.com

I hope someday you’ll see this project through to the finish. Such an incredible effort and beautiful work.

thanks for sharing it.

-- JMP

You have done a great job on making the ship. Looks like a Harold Hahn kit and/or plans.

Have you done any other models? I have quite a few kits that I have collected over the years.

-- Oldworld, Fair Oaks, Ca