Steve Sanford
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Eric~
Useful definitions, but....there's a lot to be said for laminated "ribs" - no steam required!
All the best,
SJS
After the U-bolt: The next steps in the Model 26
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Useful definitions, but....there's a lot to be said for laminated "ribs" - no steam required!
All the best,
SJS
Steve
Yes, laminated ribs should be included in the same breath as steam bent for the purpose of defining the terms.
Richard Lathrop
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Tuckerton has a good teaching tool for sneakbox construction hanging from ceiling.
One of my goals is to visit the Tuckerton Seaport over the winter. I would like to visit the boat shop but don't know current status.
One of my goals is to visit the Tuckerton Seaport over the winter. I would like to visit the boat shop but don't know current status.
Geoff Pike
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Google probably asked Steve...
Steve Sanford
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All~
A few more steps forward... Today's "chores" began with the wonderful aroma of freshly-planed Atlantic White Cedar (that I brought back from Tuckerton in 2024).
I am a long way from installing the coamings - but I needed some AWC for some framing so started prepping the lumber. The forward and aft coamings will be AWC. The port and starboard will be either AWC or PVC - 2 ends of the Traditional v. Contemporary spectrum to be sure! In any event, I planed the Cedar to 5/8-inch thick. The coamings will be 3 inches tall.
The screw holes are carefully spaced and countersunk. The screw heads will be left exposed - probably bronze (or brass) slotted.
Here are the finished edge shapes: rounded to 3/16" radius inside and 3/8" radius outside - where wear is more likely. Mating edges (bottom) of the coamings remain square where they will be fastened against the cockpit frames (bulkheads and purlins).
The 3 main bulkheads/frames got their second coat of epoxy - after light scraping and sanding with 120-grit.
The king plank has been fastened at both ends - and bedded in thickened epoxy.
Once cured, each end with be faired with a combination of electric plane and (most likely) belt sander to the deck radii. Screws will be removed first!
Stern. (BTW: That anchor is NOT for this vessel.)
With any luck I will begin to install the bulkheads tomorrow.
All the best,
SJS
A few more steps forward... Today's "chores" began with the wonderful aroma of freshly-planed Atlantic White Cedar (that I brought back from Tuckerton in 2024).
I am a long way from installing the coamings - but I needed some AWC for some framing so started prepping the lumber. The forward and aft coamings will be AWC. The port and starboard will be either AWC or PVC - 2 ends of the Traditional v. Contemporary spectrum to be sure! In any event, I planed the Cedar to 5/8-inch thick. The coamings will be 3 inches tall.
The screw holes are carefully spaced and countersunk. The screw heads will be left exposed - probably bronze (or brass) slotted.
Here are the finished edge shapes: rounded to 3/16" radius inside and 3/8" radius outside - where wear is more likely. Mating edges (bottom) of the coamings remain square where they will be fastened against the cockpit frames (bulkheads and purlins).
The 3 main bulkheads/frames got their second coat of epoxy - after light scraping and sanding with 120-grit.
The king plank has been fastened at both ends - and bedded in thickened epoxy.
Once cured, each end with be faired with a combination of electric plane and (most likely) belt sander to the deck radii. Screws will be removed first!
Stern. (BTW: That anchor is NOT for this vessel.)
With any luck I will begin to install the bulkheads tomorrow.
All the best,
SJS
Pointy nose and curved transom. Hmmm. Over a month to go before Steve reveals this mystery boat. I think I'm going to pay @Anthony Babich to fly his drone window high by Steve's shop and see if he can produce some intelligence data so I won't have to wait over a month. Or maybe Steve can be bribed. What are his weaknesses? Does Steve have any vices?
Steve Sanford
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Did you mean vise?????
A recent family discovery - just last week. My Mom's maiden name was Case. My older brother Ted - a very serious amateur genealogist - found the following:
My family and friends would agree that I bear a distressingly strong resemblance to that scowling fellow in the middle image - especially when I just discovered some costly mismeasurement.
James Case is my 3rd great grandfather and, thus my Mom's 2nd great grandfather.... He was born near Dudley (U.K.), the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution and the Black Country... just northwest of Birmingham. He immigrated to New York ca 1850...
He made useful things like anvils and vises. High-demand objects - especially for blacksmiths - when much of our society ran on horse-power of the warm-blooded kind.
Note the part marked W in this catalog drawing:
As it happens, a very similar vise came along with the granary... the Top Secret boat-building facility - because my shop is too full of other projects right now.
It came with the farm - and attached to a heavy old bench.
I have not yet found any identification on it.
I do not know what to call the 2 splayed/curved arms (like part W above) - but they hold the upper end to the bench via bolts.
The post is strapped to a bench leg with leather.
It is my biggest vise - but I probably have bigger vices, especially when it comes to boats, decoys, books.....
All the best,
SJS
A recent family discovery - just last week. My Mom's maiden name was Case. My older brother Ted - a very serious amateur genealogist - found the following:
My family and friends would agree that I bear a distressingly strong resemblance to that scowling fellow in the middle image - especially when I just discovered some costly mismeasurement.
James Case is my 3rd great grandfather and, thus my Mom's 2nd great grandfather.... He was born near Dudley (U.K.), the epicenter of the Industrial Revolution and the Black Country... just northwest of Birmingham. He immigrated to New York ca 1850...
He made useful things like anvils and vises. High-demand objects - especially for blacksmiths - when much of our society ran on horse-power of the warm-blooded kind.
Note the part marked W in this catalog drawing:
As it happens, a very similar vise came along with the granary... the Top Secret boat-building facility - because my shop is too full of other projects right now.
It came with the farm - and attached to a heavy old bench.
I have not yet found any identification on it.
I do not know what to call the 2 splayed/curved arms (like part W above) - but they hold the upper end to the bench via bolts.
The post is strapped to a bench leg with leather.
It is my biggest vise - but I probably have bigger vices, especially when it comes to boats, decoys, books.....
All the best,
SJS
Richard Lathrop
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Any relation to Case tractors?
Steve Sanford
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Rick~
Thus far my brother has found no link to Case Knives - even though they began in New York State.
W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Company began in 1889 when four Case brothers (William Russell, Jean, John, and Andrew) sold hand-crafted knives from a wagon in upstate New York. The brand moved to Bradford, Pennsylvania, in 1905, supplied military knives during both World Wars, created the space-faring Astronaut Knife for NASA in the 1960s, and was acquired by the Zippo Manufacturing Company in 1993. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The tractor company was earlier and in the Midwest:
Founded in 1842 by Jerome Increase Case in Racine, Wisconsin, the Case IH History began with innovative threshing machines. Case produced its first steam engine tractor in 1869, shifted to gasoline tractors by 1904, and evolved through major corporate mergers into today’s global agricultural powerhouse.
On the other hand, Ted has told me that the Sandfords (later Sanfords) migrated only once - leaving Liverpool in the mid-1600s - and so virtually all Sanfords in the US today are (very weakly) related.
All the best,
SJS
Steve
That would be incredible if your vise was in fact one by your great great great grandfather. If so you are talking one whale of a serendipitous family heirloom. Where did the granary come from? Was it on your property when you bought it?
That would be incredible if your vise was in fact one by your great great great grandfather. If so you are talking one whale of a serendipitous family heirloom. Where did the granary come from? Was it on your property when you bought it?
Steve Sanford
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Good morning, Eric~
The Granary came with the farm - which we bought in 1996. At the closing, the seller (selling his Mom's estate) gave us a letter and an album - explaining and illustrating some of the latter-20th-century history. Our Granary is the one on the left - as it looked in 1965. Note the hatch on the roof - for dumping the grain in. (The ~1865 Agricultural Survey Map shows both Wheat and Flax being grown on this farm back then). The other Granary on the right was hauled up the road to our neighbors sometime after this photo.
Here's the "other" Granary (the horizontal slatted sides suggest corn crib) - now serving as a woodshop for one of our neighbors - who also grows grains - Wheat, Rye, Oats - here on Pencil Brook Farm - all for human consumption. A local baker uses the Wheat and Rye for some exceptional breads - and we eat Oatmeal grown right beyond our Library window.
We just discovered (about 2 weeks ago) from another photo that this little building also migrated North. It had once been a chicken coop but now houses flower supplies.
We know Pencil Brook Farm was created on paper in 1825. One cannot be certain of the dates of the house or outbuildings, but that era is consistent with the architecture. Our trove of photos goes back only to the 1940s. There were many more outbuildings - but several were gone by the time we became the "stewards".
One thing we learned was that the older outbuildings - built post-and-beam like the main house - commonly re-used posts and beams salvaged from other buildings. The Cambridge Patent was established in 1761 (I think) - so older buildings would have been available for a while. Our Granary has a "medley" of posts and beams. And, when we got it, it had no longer been used as a granary - with the workbench and even a small stall inside.
Two 2026 changes (improvements?) to the Granary reveal my "OCD" approach to most things aesthetic. It needed a new roof (and roof structure) so it got tin for the first time in its long life. (We removed 3 or so earlier roofs during demolition). My OCD has been satisfied because now ALL of our 7 outbuildings have light grey Fabral Grand Rib III roofing and wooden siding painted (opaque stain, really) Cabot Barn Red. A complete matching set!
More important was the window on the West wall. I'm sure it post-dated the granary function (No crying in baseball! - No windows in granaries!). As our house is Federalist architecture - which is all about symmetry - I could not abide the off-center visual insult....
So, the new 10-pane sash - which matches those on my shop - resides in the center of the wall (plus or minus a 1/32 inch).
The boards for patching the old window location were stolen from the South wall - which needs all new shiplap.
Well - better get back to the vessel. Fillets today!
All the best,
SJS
Love the history, and the outbuildings!
I have seen first hand earlier this summer! However sworn to secrecy! I must say this will be as always quite an impressive reveal!
Steve
That's really neat that you have a historical knowledge of your property and buildings. It's a huge bonus they are in such great shape and useful.
You mentioned beams. The hunting property my employer owns has an old house on it that looks like it was built in the 30s or 40s. Upon closer inspection we realized the house was a log cabin that had been "modernized" with painted exterior sheathing and tar paper shingle roof. But underneath it all was a very old log cabin. The land the cabin sits on was homesteaded around 1810 and my employer tells me the "white house" has been there since the land was homesteaded.
He also said any of the wood in it that isn't structural I could have. One such piece of wood was a large 8x8 beam that we hauled to a friend's saw mill. There we soon learned the beam was American Chestnut and it had very tight growth rings. Given the history of the cabin and the growth rings of the beam I think it's safe to say that tree was growing when the Revolutionary War was underway. We sawed the beam into 8/4 planks and I'm going to build the entry door to the living space above my shop with them. I find it cool that two and a half centuries later the tree that made that beam is still being worked into useful things.
That's really neat that you have a historical knowledge of your property and buildings. It's a huge bonus they are in such great shape and useful.
You mentioned beams. The hunting property my employer owns has an old house on it that looks like it was built in the 30s or 40s. Upon closer inspection we realized the house was a log cabin that had been "modernized" with painted exterior sheathing and tar paper shingle roof. But underneath it all was a very old log cabin. The land the cabin sits on was homesteaded around 1810 and my employer tells me the "white house" has been there since the land was homesteaded.
He also said any of the wood in it that isn't structural I could have. One such piece of wood was a large 8x8 beam that we hauled to a friend's saw mill. There we soon learned the beam was American Chestnut and it had very tight growth rings. Given the history of the cabin and the growth rings of the beam I think it's safe to say that tree was growing when the Revolutionary War was underway. We sawed the beam into 8/4 planks and I'm going to build the entry door to the living space above my shop with them. I find it cool that two and a half centuries later the tree that made that beam is still being worked into useful things.
Alright fine with all this drone talk here's a birds-eye view too! Little corner of heaven!
What's Steve up to in the building with the canoe on the exterior wall? Can you get that drone to peek in the shop window?
Richard Lathrop
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Not getting to far off topic but my parents house was built from salvage from a stagecoach stop. I have the pumpkin pine floors. Dad had taken them up years ago and stored them. Trying to figure out what project to use them on.
Rick
Depends on how many square feet you have. Maybe re-floor a room in your house? Maybe use a countertop somewhere? Maybe make picture frames from the wood. You mentioned pumpkin pine. I take it that means the wood has turned orange over the years. Pine darkens with age and oil finishes yellow. Combine these facts and your wood takes on orange hue.
Steve Sanford
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Rick~
Our house seems all original framing - mostly American Chestnut. And, our floors are the original "pumpkin pine".
This short "post" in the Granary was no doubt made first to help horses pull a load - maybe part of a stage coach?
I do not know what to call it: Post? Trace? Shaft? I will leave equine terminology to others.....
(Since it does not go the full wall height I'd call it a "cripple stud" - which no doubt means something very different in the world of draft horses!)
All the best,
SJS