FIJI

Here is Fiji ready for finish sanding.
next to rough cut Mogami

 

Do you have a service carving a mold out of foam or something?

 

Plugs are machined. Fiji went from cad to that in 3 days. Mogami a little more due to hull being more complex

 

DUDE! Are you giving tours of the workshop at the battle? Will we get to see the umpa-lumpas at work? No way you are doing this by yourself

 

Yea I plan to have the dinner in my shop of course I have to clean it with all the machining I have been doing no matter the dust system it still gets everywhere.
LOL Yes I do this myself

 

I've been privileged to walk through Santa Charley's workshop. It's like a cross between Newport News Shipyards and NASA's Kennedy VAB. I got shop envy so bad, I almost moved in.

 

I have a Fiji. Make sure you build it light weight. At 10.5lbs it was too heavy. Much better at 9.5lbs. Shoot for 9-9.5lbs.

 

Bob, do you have any pictures of the build you can post for the rest of us?

 

Alright plug is done and ready to mold. Here she is during finish sanding. Full armor belt is added to boot!

 

Oh yea after machining Fiji and Mogami which took longer than normal due to the acme lead screw on the Z axis was worn out on my 15 year old machine she got an upgrade tonight preloaded ball screw to match X and Y had to do some machine to be a drop in replacement.

Woo-hoo now 200 inch per minute verses 80

 

Any pictures of the plug going through the molding process?

 

Lou, no pics there but plan to make some hulls this weekend

 

Got the hull, she is a beaut! Well done, Charley!

 

Glad you like it Lou!