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  1. Runner
    I don't want to hijack Michael's wonderful thread but here are a couple of photos of my project, the first being the historic model in its current (incorrectly-rigged) form.
  2. Runner
    I am truly in awe of your project Michael, and your craftsmanship. I too am building a large sailing model of a cutter, but a very different project and quality. Mine is a 60" LOA copy of a sailing model of a 10-gun naval cutter built by four British veterans of the War of 1812 in the early 1830s. The original model resides in a small museum about 400 yards from where it was completed, and has never left the town. It has been altered by two well-intentioned but poorly-informed restorations and my project started as an attempt to reconstruct its original form and functionality. The model is greatly simplified, but almost everything on it once worked--including the pump and the guns! I still haven't managed to figure out how to make the elm tree pump valves. The project is as much a great dive into local and naval history as it is a modelmaking challenge. My project started with initial research in 1997; I now have my sails and hope to start rigging as soon as time and workspace permit.
  3. Runner
    Thank you both for your responses. I will definitely be trying shellac Bob! Your description of the technique is awesome.
  4. Runner
    Other than soaking them in glue, is there a way to make reef points behave? The reef points on my 1:24 scale sails go in any direction but down! I think they are going to drive me mad!
  5. Runner
    You can taper masts easily with a rasp and sandpaper whether working from square or round stock. This is how it was done in the C19th. Use the rasp to taper the stock square, then octagonal, and then use two or three grades of glasspaper starting with the coarsest and ending with the finest, rotating the spar back and forth with one hand while curling a small rectangle of glasspaper around it and moving it to and fro along the spar as you go. You can get surprisingly good results this way.

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