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  1. jfesterman
    The instruction booklet was the only thing I could find on AL's website. https://artesanialatina.net/en/index.php?controller=attachment&id_attachment=221
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    You have all the parts, just missing some of the plans?
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    And the false keel.
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    This should be all you need to replicate the frames.
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    I’ll see what I have. Scanning and posting while maintaining scale, might be a trick, but if I have them, I’ll give it a go.
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    The workshop re-arrange and de-LEGOfication continues.  Someday I’ll get back to modeling.  Why do they leave all the LEGO when they move out?

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    Sorry folks, Hannah is on hold for a while. Thanks for sticking with me, as you all know hobbies can take a back seat to life sometimes. I’m ok, everything is good, I just had to dismantle part of the shipyard to concentrate on a different mission. I hope to get back to it soon.
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    And, primer #1.
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    More progress today. Yards and bowsprit are done. Pretty soon, I’m going run out of these little things and then I’ll actually have to paint the hull…
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    J Brent’s videos on YouTube made rigging the spars much easier today. Not sure if that fella’s still with us, but man, he pulled me out of a dark place. Much of the frustration of yesterday had to do with threading those little parrels. Pick one up, drop it, pick it up, five times. Pick up another and pew! Gone forever. Still, I think I only lost 2.
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    Rigging blocks and stuff on the spars was getting really frustrating today. Had to walk away.
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    Well, the 6 mm stock was no match for the jig. I snapped the main boom twice! Good news is, with a furled sail on it, you’ll never see the repairs. Shorter lengths of the 6 mm stock faired better, like the jib boom, gaffs and mast tops. I ended up shaping the 4 mm stock mostly by hand. The lower fore yard will just have to be about a cm short… don’t tell anyone. I’m glad I made the sanding blocks anyway, they came in handy even for hand shaping.
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    Prototype 1 of dowel tapering jig. Two one-by boards with 80 grit adhered w/ spray adhesive. Main and fore masts are 10 mm and need to taper to 6 mm over a 30mm (or so) span.. Block at the top is 6 mm, block at the bottom is 10 mm. Chuck in the drill and SLOWLY run it through until it comes out the other end. I made a shorter version for the spars. The original vision in my head was something more permanent, affixed to a plank, with carriage bolts and wing nuts, etc. Would have been way more complicated and required a trip to the hardware store. So far, working fine. Unfortunately, it’s really noisy and my son’s trying to sleep in the next room. Maybe I’ll wait a little while to finish these up. Nah… Side note, I had this idea before I found a similar example in another MSW forum, which used paint stirring sticks, which in my opinion, might work ok for spars, but definitely not strong enough for these bokapi (?) masts. His original idea was linked in his post to a Polish model ship building forum. Here it is:
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    Deck mock-up. Good thing I did this! In full Adam Savage mode, “am I missing a fife-rail?” I’ll get right on that…
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