Coach 9 - Official Work Thread

[Ed Deere]

Wacky Wood
Imported Italian Bending Poplar also known as "wiggle wood" or "wacky wood" is a bending plywood commonly used for cabinet applications, curved furniture parts, fixtures, spiral stairways and displays. Italian Bending Poplar offers a fantastically smooth surface for painting or staining.

 Have used wacky wood for structure then glued a veneer of chose to match the other component of the cabinetry.
Mrdeere

[Mike Fox]

These are the pieces Ron was mentioning. Top of the windows. I reposted a before picture along with a cropped current photo.

[Bill Reidy]

Beautiful craftsmanship.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Simply fantastic work.

Jeff S.

[Ron Ginger]

Eric and I are both boatbuilders, so we are not worried about bending panels. We talked about it some today and have a couple ideas for form bending some thin ply, then veneering it with oak as in the original. We are not artists, so the decoration may be difficult, but we have a couple ides for that as well. Currently coach 3 has Masonite bent over the original ceiling, and painted white. That is probably to  cover up a dark and deteriorating ceiling.

Today we put the second to last oak strip all around the car. Three molding strips to go and the interior oak is done up to the ceiling.

[Bill Baskerville]

Yea Ron and Eric.  Your work is amazing.

[John Kokas]

is the plan to have stained glass in the clerestory windows?

[Ed Lecuyer]

A manufacturer who can match the original glass panes in Coach 3 has been identified and will be used to create the panes for coach 9 (and replace those missing from coach 3, of which there are many.)

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Eric ordered cut-to-size glass from that specialty manufacturer when he first found them several years ago.  He got enough for all of coach 9 and to replace the incorrect glass in coach 3.  They are upstairs in the house.

thanks
Jason

[Ted Miles]

I am glad to hear that the original W&Q #3 is not going to be overlooked; it is a wonderful survivor!

The new coach #9 is is looking wonderful!

Ted Miles, WW&F Life Member, Built 11 Contributor

[Bill Reidy]

While at Sheepscot Wednesday, I took a couple of photos as Ron Ginger (foreground) and Eric Schade were installing the last of the interior vertical wall trim pieces.  Amazing craftmanship by the two boat builders.

[Joe Fox]

Wow. The craftsmanship in this car is truly fantastic. You don’t fully appreciate the detail, and fine detail until you see the amount of time and skill it takes. Keep up the great work guys.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Simply impressive work.

Jeff S.

[Carl G. Soderstrom]

While it is not exactly historically correct (maybe?)
since the scroll work is repetitive have you considered
decals?

[Pete "Cosmo" Barrington]

I believe it has been stated the intent IS to make it as historically accurate as possible. Hence: the detailed scrollwork.
If you scroll back through this thread you will see discussion of attention to such things as brass fittings etc. that we want to see done as accurately as possible.
And on top of that, we have Coach #3 for a model! So we don't have much excuse to short ourselves on accuracy any more than we absolutely have to, and that's been kept to a respectable minimum so far. Decals are COOL!
Scrollwork is COOLER.