Thread: Building a Waller TS540

Originally Posted by m2c1Iw

Have you noticed the Nurses always smile at least when they jab you.

I see you've met my wife Mike...

AJ

AJ I'll need to think very carefully before I respond........OK, um perhaps.

Rob,
I hope you have a series of pics that show how you did that, in particular how is the teak section held on. I'm trying to picture a turned tenon or is it a threaded joint ah la pool cue or what?

In any event it is a beautiful thing you have done there.

Thanks Mike, but I didn't take many shots. But the technique is simple enough: take a square sectioned core (in this case 18mm square oregon) and put 4 layers around it (in this case 6mm thick teak strips left over from the deck) so that the rod now looks totally teak (or whatever). Because I wanted to have a bigger diameter 'bulb' I built up another shorter layer at one end, so for about 120mm the core was 'double wrapped'. This was all turned on a lathe, and a steady taper produced the 'pointed' outer layer, while the bulb stayed totally teak.

So the thin end of the taper reveals all the oregon now, but round in section. You can see the two layers of teak in the bulb. BTW the bulb looks separate because it isn't varnished. It just has a little oil and will only get hand sweat from now on! That will make it feel good in the hand.

Hope that makes sense.

Originally Posted by m2c1Iw

Richard, get back on the tools soon.

Have you noticed the Nurses always smile at least when they jab you.

yes and the bigger the needle the bigger the smile

Rob that tiller extention look great i love the way you have done it with the two timbers on the bulbus end is the a matt varnish or is it jut bare wood for better grip?

Ah ha you sneaky bugga and here I am thinking you must have developed some trick scarfing system.

If I had taken the time to study the pic. I see now the oregon core, now to tuck that away for when I have a lathe.

Originally Posted by honkongphoie

on the bulbus end is the a matt varnish or is it jut bare wood for better grip?

Hi Richard (do you have the plans yet?) Just a bit of oil. Sweat will do the rest!


Mike: guilty as charged

Up and down haul lines attached and cleated. They even work!!

Originally Posted by rob540

Hi Richard (do you have the plans yet?) Just a bit of oil. Sweat will do the rest!


Mike: guilty as charged

Up and down haul lines attached and cleated. They even work!!

great pic Rob i was wondering how it all went together, now i can see

no plans yet but i don't really expect to see them till next week. our postal service is not that great and the plan needs to come via the UK

Originally Posted by rob540

Hi Richard (do you have the plans yet?) Just a bit of oil. Sweat will do the rest!


Mike: guilty as charged

Up and down haul lines attached and cleated. They even work!!

Fantastic bit of work with the tiller extension Rob but I hate to say it but you're going to need some more grip on that thing!! When the ##### hits the fan you need to be able to have perfect grip with wet hands.

Also isn't the knob on the end going to get dropped and chip your beautiful paint work??

Some grip in the form on tennis racket grip or tape will make a world of difference.

As I said, not trying to bag your work, which is phenomanal but simply trying to help by playing devils advocate!!

Mez

Thanks Mez. I'm always happy to hear an experienced voice, I really appreciate your input, and so will other readers of this post. I knew when I decided to do this rather than buy one of the aluminium ones in the shop that mine would be heavier, less strong and less adjustable for length, as well as less easy to grip than some. Despite all that I wanted to have a wooden one.

I considered a rope grip, and maybe a rubber ring. Tennis racket grip is a good idea, and I'll certainly consider it. This extension won't easily store strapped to the tiller either, because of the shape of the tiller coming up from under the traveler, and that's why I needed to be able to take it off quickly.

I guess I need to leave it as is until I get a feel for how it works. This may be a race type boat, but I won't be into any sort of competition, unless boat ownership produces some sort of genetic mutation in me and there are plenty of extensions out there made entirely out of a piece of dowel with a naked, unimproved end, so I'm open to learn from experience. I know though, that if you have a 'fan' at some point, stuff of a smelly kind is bound to hit it....

Originally Posted by rob540

I guess I need to leave it as is until I get a feel for how it works. This may be a race type boat, but I won't be into any sort of competition, unless boat ownership produces some sort of genetic mutation in me and there are plenty of extensions out there made entirely out of a piece of dowel with a naked, unimproved end, so I'm open to learn from experience. I know though, that if you have a 'fan' at some point, stuff of a smelly kind is bound to hit it....

Yeah, right Rob, you'd buy a Monaro and only drive it to church on sundays

Richard
Hoon

Rob,
I promise you, two sailboats equal a race.

Originally Posted by rob540

I know though, that if you have a 'fan', at some point stuff of a smelly kind is bound to hit it....

That's kind of what I meant, but you are both right of course....

To-day we have shrouds, stays and halyards. It was good to learn that at a pinch I can lower the mast with out help, using the winch to keep some tension on an extended forestay. Getting her out of the shed and looking a bit more vertical was very satisfying.



You just can't hide behind that mast, even built like me...