Tuition: $825. material cost: $145 (wood and one set of plans). note: this is a five-day courses ending friday evening. there are few products of woodworking as exciting to behold as a well-done half model. it reveals the character of the boat it represents at a scale that can be admired at a glance and appreciated for a lifetime.. The half hull model becomes the "master" from which plans often were drawn up. herreshoff, the famous american yacht designer, apparently designed all his boats this way. other times experienced designers make the half model first, as a reassurance that the lines "feel" right in three dimensions, before material and labor is committed for the. Making a half model. half model making is the precursor to lofting. in a sense one is lofting in a different medium. boat builders were obviously familiar with wood and the tools required to shape wood, and probably less familiar with working out a design starting with a blank sheet of paper and a pencil and some battens..
Today in building the half models we shaved them with spoke shaves, filed and sanded the boats to the correct waterline shapes.. The half model will be painted in a gloss finish and will match the original boat's colour scheme. we do need a copy of the lines drawing of your craft, along with photos to make the ½ model identical, or we can do our best with a sketch, photos, scantlings, or if necessary, we could make arrangements to view the craft.. The art of making half hulls is as old as ship building itself ! half hulls were crafted by ship builders to give three-dimensional shape to their hull designs. crafted in mahogany and tropical hard woods, the hulls are assembled one at a time, using traditional plank-on-bulkhead modelling techniques..
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