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  1. I simply used two brass rods through the keel. It is plenty strong enough and I think it looks good.
  2. Great work so far, especially all the metal work. I like what you did with the siene boat and the dory as well. Mine is long finished but I never did complete my log, including finished pictures. maybe you've inspired me to do so...
  3. Thanks Bob. She's actually finished, and has been for a couple of months. I just need to get this log caught up.
  4. Richard, Thanks. The rope is Syren. For the baggywrinkle I simply placed the appropriate length of rope in my serving machine, and then attached the piece of the peacock hearl with fine thread. I then wrapped it around the rope for the distance necessary and seized it off on that end again with fine thread. Final step was to paint with diluted tan acrylic paint. It's actually incredibly simple.
  5. Welcome Doug from a fellow Pennsylvanian!
  6. More update photos as promised. These show the gaff rigging and some of the topmast rigging. As mentioned earlier, these are Bluejacket blocks and Syren line.
  7. Well, bit of a long overdue update. I've been super busy at work, spending time outside over the summer, then I had Covid. So even though I've worked on the model a fair amount I haven't posted anything in quite awhile. Here we go. I've completed nearly all of the rigging on the Latham. One thing I wanted to touch on first was the baggywrinkle. I puzzled long and hard over how to make this neatly and in scale. I am a fly fisherman/fly tier and it eventually hit me to use peacock herl, which is used for certain fly bodies. I used my serving machine to wrap it around the rigging line, and then subsequently painted with tan paint. Really happy with the way it came out. I'll have more updates over the coming days.
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