Jump to content

Blue Ensign

NRG Member
  • Posts

    4,520
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Blue Ensign

  1. Look forward to seeing this build evolve Frank. :)

     

    She looks more schooner than cutter to my eye and a book you may find of interest is The Global Schooner (Origins, Develoment, Design, and Construction 1695 - 1845) by Karl Heinz Marquardt.

     

    A nice book in its own right but one section includes American Revenue cutter (schooners) of the early 19th century,  and there is also useful information about masting and rigging sizes.

     

    Cheers,

     

    B.E.

  2. What a wonderful box of delights mobbsie, those Proxxon machines are very addictive and I think you may well have set me off again.

     

    Aaprt from the wood lathe I don't have any of the others in your box and it would be interesting to hear over time your impressions as you use them.

     

    Think I'll just go and have another look at that planer/thicknesser again..... ;)

     

    B.E.

  3. Yes I used the original extensions and cut out the centres and fined them down as far as I thought safe so that they didn't show too much with the view thro' the stern galley windows.

     

    With Frame 13 I made a new one out of spare mdf, I didn't want to risk the original in case the modification didn't work. It would have been much easier if I had had the scroll saw at the time.

     

    Cheers,

     

    B.E.

×
×
  • Create New...