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Kevin, we should all "botch" as well as you do. Bob
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Very nicely done Kevin. Since I have also been working on the same area, I have appreciation for both the difficulties and the accomplishment. Bob
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Wayne, I agree with Augie about the sequence and procedure. The only addition that I would make is to consider the use of a chisel (very sharp!) to do some of the initial work. Bob
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Congratulations Grant on a truly masterful piece of work. It has been a pleasure to follow along with you on this for the past few years. You mention that you have been pushed to better work by others on this site -- you are one of those that push me to do better. You've set a high standard for all of us. Bob
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Your work is to enjoy for all of us Sjors. It looks great. Bob
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Great to see progress Hamilton. It all looks very good to me. Bob
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Thanks so much Nils, Tim, Grant, Sjors and Terry for the kind words and also to the likes". Always appreciated. Bob
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Work on the bowsprit is now finished. I made collars for the hearts and deadeyes and attached them to the bowsprit. The collar for the mainstay actually passes through a hole in the stem, rather than attaching to the bowsprit, and this was a fussy little job to accomplish in place.The others went fairly easily. After this work was done, I mounted the bowsprit permanently. That left the gammoning to be done. I realized when I went to do it, that I shouldn't have installed the seats of ease earlier. They made access to do the gammoning more difficult than it should have been. It all worked out in the end, however. The last item was to attach the fairlead to the bowsprit. I still need to do the boomkins, the railing and some eyebolts for rigging attachment to complete the work on the head (and of course the figurehead). Bob
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Thanks Remco for the tip on the book. From just glancing at it, the book certainly made things look easier to do than I found them to be. Perhaps the author would like to do a figurehead. Bob
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Thanks for the info Tim. I was afraid that might be the case. Bob
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Thanks guys for the thoughts and suggestions. Thomas, the kit figurehead is much too large and can't be used as the basis for any kind of casting. Mark, the figure is a full length native American and the scale of the model is unusual (1:76.8) -- not likely to find anything useful out there. Ken, Sam Cassano had offered to do a resin casting for me some time ago, but Sam has sort of disappeared. Does anyone know if he is OK? I'm going to work on other things for a while and then give the figurehead another go. Bob
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Thanks so much Ken, Chris, Rusty and Mark and the"likes". I appreciate your confidence in my ability to do the figurehead, but at the moment I'm afraid that I don't share that confidence. Bob
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Thanks so much Sjors, Tim and Rich and the"likes". Nothing to fear yet Sjors and Rich, because the bowsprit is still not installed, but I know the fear from sad experience in the past. Rich, the trick is to drill the holes before you cut the piece from the sheet or strip. It's then relatively easy to cut it a little oversize and sand to final shape. Using a hard, close grained wood like boxwood also helps. Bob
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I've been working on two areas --one successfully and one not so much. The bowsprit is done, but not yet permanently installed. The work included tapering and shaping the piece, making and adding the bees and bee blocks, making and adding the cap, making and adding the dolphin striker, making and adding the gammoning cleats, jib boom saddle and spritsail sling saddle and adding the single woolding. The bowsprit itself is a dowel, stained with golden oak stain, and the other wooden parts are boxwood. The bowsprit will not be mounted until the various hearts and deadeyes have been attached. I have made the hearts from boxwood strip and the deadeyes I'm using are from Model Expo. I am now in the process of making their collars. The less productive work that I've been doing is on the figurehead. I can only describe my efforts to date, both with clay and wood, to be embarrassingly pathetic. So bad in fact that I took no pictures and won't even describe the results. I need to do some rethinking. Bob
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How do I place my order Grant? There's no way that I could do them nearly as well. Bob
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Thanks so much Wayne. I'm looking forward to progress on your Essex. I've never tried to carve a figure of any kind, either in wood or clay. It should be interesting to see how it turns out. Bob
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Thanks so much Rich and Thomas and the "likes". Always appreciated. Bob
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Thanks so much Tim, Alistair, John, Rusty and Grant and the "likes". Alistair and Grant, You guys know as well as anyone that we are our own worst critics. I think that I just spent too much time on the cathead supports. After a while, nothing you do looks good. Bob
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Really nice work on the masts Kevin. Bob
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Really great job on the copper Sjors. Not fun to do, but very satisfying when you're finished. Bob
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Well, for better or worse, I installed the cathead supports and eking. I still wasn't entirely happy, but I had had enough of it. After finishing that, I had a burst of activity and did the seats of ease, the anchor billboards and the waist gang board rails. The supports and eking are boxwood, as are the seats and billboards. The waist railing uses the same brass stanchions that I used for the quarterdeck ladderway, with a rope railing. The remaining work on the head is the figurehead, the iron railings and supports and the boomkins. The railings and boomkins won't be done until I've made and installed the bowsprit and done the gammoning. My Sculpey and a set of clay modeling tools just arrived from Amazon, so I'll start experimenting with the figurehead. I'll probably also start working on the bowsprit at the same time. Remaining work on the hull consists of the deadeyes, the hammock stanchions and netting, the anchors, the lantern and the boat(s). It is my current intention not to do any of this until I have at least made and installed the lower masts. Bob
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