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Thank you, Marc and John for your kind words and all others for your likes

Hello and thanks for your comments and likes

today I build the tiller for the rudder. After turning most of the handle, I had to glue it to a peace of wood. My fingers are too thick to hold it. It's 21 mm long, and the handle after the head has 1 mm Ø.

I carved mostly with my small V cutter and my carving knife. Using also small files. And that is the result

This is a little faking, because the tiller is too short to go through the slot 😐 But you would't see it 😇

And now in action, but not fast

Hello,

after I build the last days toggles in all variations, I build today the rudder. Tomorrow I will start then with the tiller.

Hello Richard,

yes it's 5 mm acrylic. Painted from below as if waves are running there.

Hello,

today I build the two blocks, a one and a two sheave, for the halyard and two of the shroud pins. The thicker part of them is still a little green, so the rest has to wait a little longer.

Thank you, Constant

Thank you Mike,

the look at the mast step, is mostly hidden by the mast fish. The flat part of it, belonged to the mast fish. It is in reality one pice of wood, 1 X 5 m oak! So also without decking, you would't see much more of it.

Thank you very much for your kind comments and likes.

Hello JJ,

Tiger has vacation till the Gogstad ship is ready. I don't thought that it takes so long to build this little ship. But now I have to bring it to an end, otherwise I have two unready ships here 😏

Hello,

just to give you a sign of life, I'm currently building blocks and cleats. Today, new yarn has finally arrived, so the rope production will soon also begin.

Hello, and thank you for your comments and likes

today I started with an experiment to create the shroud pins. With some branches from my boxtree. Let's see what's going to be.

The arrow shows one of the Gokstad ship in the scale, it is 13mm long!

Hello,

it is done, the deck is finished. That was no easy job, at least in the stern and stem. I'm waiting now for the second oiling, and build in that time may be the rudder, some cleats or toggles.

And that is all you could see from the interior. Just some frames and parts of the mast step. But I have the pictures.

Hello, and thank you all for your comments and likes

today I started with the deck. Now with the first oiling. The toggle is for the halyard, fastened to the frame below. So I started also with rigging. 😊

Keith, not all. At the SB side I would left the deck right to the mast fish open. 😊

Hello,

After a short break, we continue now. The last two stands are now ready. Since nothing is straight here, they got me really busy.

But it's done now. Next is the deck to be made. That means, cutting wood first.

Hello Cisko,

as you can see in the picture, the stand is made of 3 parts. I haven't found more parts in the trash bin anymore. In this case, the stand itself must first be dressed. That's the difficult part. Everything else will explain itself, hopefully.

As I have seen, people don't need to take off their shoes anymore when they come to the ship 😄

Thank you Patrick

Thank you Keith for your kind words

Thank you Johnny

Hello,

the first stand (?) is installed. This is the fourth version of it. 😟  I worked here after a drawing from Frederik Johannessen, he reconstructed the ship.

And at least the whole ship

It's a nice little ship you build, Keith

Thank you Keith.

Hello and thank you for your kind comments and likes

today I finished the knees. That was a nerve-consuming process. But now it's done. The next not so easy work would be the stand, standing in front of the mast.

Thank you John