Ship Model Built From Scratch

Astonishing! Level of detail that borders on ridiculous! Unbelievably well done!! Congratulations!!

Great detail. Is this what you do for a living?

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

WAIT YOU MADE THIS????!!!!!!
WOW this is amazeing. I am astounded. This is so detailed and looks very hard to make. 1,175 hours, now that is determination.

-- Tyler, Illinois

Looks great. Fantastic details.

I’ve got to finish mine on of these days.

http://lumberjocks.com/projects/4346

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

Holy moley!

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne

It goes in the “my Favorites” section Capn’. The attention to detail is incredible! Excellent job on the craftsmanship as well! On a scale of 1-5 I give it a 10!!!!

-- --Chuck

You gotta click on the link Densships provided and check out some of the other stuff he’s made!! Noahs arc diarama and the USS Constellation.

-- --Chuck

Ahoy! That’s incredible!

-- Dust collectors suck.

Truly amazing! Do you work off copies of the original plans of the ship to achieve accurate scale size?

I can’t even begin to imagine spending 1175 hours of painstaking, meticulous work on a project. You have way more patience that I do! Great job, and you obviously love it.

JimC

That is astonishing. Really detailed, must be quite a job to build something like this. One of the guys on the CarveWright Forum is a ship builder also. He uses his CarveWright to cut the small wooden parts for his ships. Always amazes me seeing this kind of miniature work.

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

I am speechless.

-- Maplewood, MN

Den,

After looking at your profile I suspected something like this was coming but never did I imagine the level of detail that would be in this project. What type of woods did you use in the construction?

I love to see projects like this. I wouldn’t have the patience or initiative to do something like this (give me a cabinet any day). But I do like to see the efforts of others who are talented enough to produce works like this.

By the way I tried to use the link but it generated an error due to heavy traffic.

This is simply awesome!!!

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Speachless…I just don’t know what to say about this one…...... Truly magnificent !

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

INCREDIBLE….... About 12 years ago I shot photos for an article about a guy building a scaled model of Noah’s Ark….. That project’s detals blew me away. It was the most detailed work I’d ever seen….. until now. Fantastic work Dens. Thanks for the post and I’m looking to more from you.

-- Make things with wood. Any way you want. The wood police won't come. I promise!

“awe”-lots!! totally amazing!!!

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Please post more pics of different angles. I honestly believe that NO ONE would be offended if you posted 2 more three shot panels of pics from all sides. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW!!!

-- so much wood, so little time. Bradford.

welcome to lumberjocks … thanks for the eye candy !

-- Hey ! I was born in IOWA .... don't blame me

This leaves me weak in the knees! Can’t think of any adjectives that haven’t already been taken above, so I’ll just repeat “astonishing”!

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

Everything they said and add a WOW!

Amazing work and patience!

-- Betsy - There is no strength where there is no struggle

Good Lord that is impressive!

-- Happy Ripping!!!

WOW! This is unbelievable, you are a true artist. Thanks for sharing!

-- Tim D. - Woodstock, GA

Aww, I could do this any time… NOT!!!

VERY impressive! I’ve honestly never seen this kind of hand work before.

-- Michael R. Harvey - Brewster, NY - RusticElementArt.com - SpaceAware.org

wow , 1200 hours shows just how patience you are.killer job man.

-- eric post, tallahassee FL

That is increadible, the detail…wow is not good enough, GREAT WORK. Where did I put my eye patch and sword…Wonderful work.

-- Ray

Staggering – just staggering

This is AWESOME – I have spent several hours onboard HMS Victory in Portsmouth Harbour, England ( Admiral Nelson’s famous flagship at the battle of Trafalger), studied British naval history more than most (I was in the Royal Navy for 10 years) and have been a sailor all my life and this was an amazing period in British naval history. To see a model of this quality outside the British Maritime Museum in Greenwich is an ‘unexpected’ delight. I tried to go to the website to see more of this build in progress but it is ‘maxed out’ on visitors and I am not surprised.

I once watched an Bristol Pilot cutter model being built over several months by one of these gifted model makers – they are a special gifted kind of crazy, whole other breed of lumberjocks – but that build was surely childsplay compared to this.

I say all this to overshelm my one small query – British/English warships fly the WHITE ensign – British merchant vessels fly the RED ensign – or was this convention not so rigidly adhered to at that time?

Before anyone else says it – I dont really care either – it is still absolutely bl*y FANTASTIC.

-- TartanJock

Just WOW!

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

Your level of craftsmanship and attention to detail is truly humbling to us all. My hat is off to you.

I have stared and marveled at your piece for several minutes now in total amazement.

For me this work redefined the term craftmanship. I would love to see this in person.

Thank You for sharing!

Trev

-- Trevor Premer Head Termite and Servant to the Queen - Heirloom Woodworking

Now that’s inspiration! Absolutely amazing work! WOW!

-- Sam

Can’t find words. Utterly amazing.

-- Mark, Florida, http://penturner.wordpress.com/

Shiver My Timbers!

Heirloom Woodworker pretty well covered my same thoughts. Thank you for posting.

Tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

I can hear the ocean in my computer!

ok, I give up, I’m going back to woodworking school…

-- The name is "Splinter"... I'm the son-of-a-son-of-a-carpenter

I THANK YOU ALL FOR THE KIND WORDS,
AND FOR VISITNG MY SITE,
THANKS,
Den

-- DENS MODEL SHIPS - http://www.densmodelships.zoomshare.com

That’s incredible. You have inspired me to work on my patience.

-- Jason, AL

Hi Den

I just posted this project to my favorites with a special note : “When things are taking longer than I think they should, refer to this favorite”

Tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

awesome work! ever thought of contacting a maritime museum like the one in astoria, oregon?

WOW!

-- http://dustynewt.googlepages.com

Ship shape model ship,,,,,,excellent work!

-- Les, Wichita, Ks. (I'd rather be covered in saw dust!)

Incredible, beautiful work. Where do you go from here?

-- Doris Oakwood Ga

How is a price attached to a piece like this????AWESOME!!

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

I’m away for a few days and come back to this??? Holy cow!!!! Unbelievable!! If you aren’t doing these for the movies and museums there are a lot of people missing the boat. Really missing the boat(ship?). Excellent.

-- Thos. Angle, Owyhee Design, Oregon

Wait… I thought only gods made model ships like this, let alone from scratch! I AM UTTERLY STUNNED! I once started a teeny little scratch model of the HMS Surprise and didn’t even have the patience to finish it. You are a master!

Wow!!.. Superb!!!... A true master craftsman….

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)