Here are the last bits that were added. The original keel is long gone, but I do have a metal strip that was probably used as a stem band. It was pretty crude, and not original, so I replaced it with the standard brass half round strips. The keel is oak with a cove cut into the mating surface, filled with bedding compound to seal the screw penetrations every other rib.
The nameplate was originally black except for the raised lettering, border and embellishments. I tried to restore it to that state, but the raised features are not very prominent, making that task very difficult. I put a black patina on the whole surface and tried to polish just the raised areas, but ended up with this.
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