Baker

Very, Very, nice work Mati. 

Congrats 

Vacations over and back to real life.
Read all this on vacation.

https://www.hnsa.org/manuals-documents/age-of-sail/the-elements-and-practice-of-rigging-and-seamanship/sail-making-vol-i/   (HNSA)

https://www.hmsrichmond.org/sailmker.htm

https://textileranger.com/2016/08/01/even-more-sail-history/       (textiles)

http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Rigging/Sails/Wasa-sails.html

Available info 16th century : virtually nothing;    17th century : some;    18th century and later : good.

All this is internet info, so it could be wrong

Thread thickness : Vasa would have had an average of 10 threads per cm. Converted there should be about 450 threads per cm on a scale of 1/45 (impossible)

Tabling : from a few inches (sailmaker) to a detailed description (HNSA page 93)

Clotchs width : 24 inch (sailmaker) 23-30 inch (textiles)

(bolt) ropes above and around the sail (HNSA page 95)

Very nice sails can indeed be made with the silkspan, modelspan. But personally I don't like to see them on a wooden 16th century model.
That's why I continue my my cotton. 

I think I found something to make the texture less rough.

First :stitching seams

"hem" (bad English ?? ) "omzomen" (in Dutch) and glue with diluted pva 

sew, sew, sew... Then smear the sail on both sides with colorless shoe polish ( beeswax and carnauba wax, wow)

result

Not quite yet what it could be, but better than the diluted black wash test (bad picture)

Thanks for comments, likes and following

9 hours ago, CDW said:

Last car I did any extensive work on was my '96 Buick Riviera.

And soon you will own a Mercedes. Hopefully with less work 😉 

https://www.la.mercedes-benz.com/en/passengercars/the-brand/know-your-car/e-class-type-170V.html

Very nice work!

Mistakes???? Where 🧐??

Great work.

This model looks like a Golden Hind kit. Correct??

Nice work on the car.

Married 44 years, wow. We have been married 30 years this year.

Hello 

And 

Good work, keep going 👍

Deck planking in the 16th century (rules?? There are no rules)

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Short reply sorry, on holiday ⛱️

On 8/9/2021 at 4:25 PM, GrandpaPhil said:

Looking great!  Nice job with the sails!

On 8/9/2021 at 4:26 PM, Edwardkenway said:

Your trial sails look pretty darn (no pun intended) good to me, especially the mizzen. 

The hand stitching is very neat😲 , great job!!

On 8/10/2021 at 7:38 AM, G.L. said:

The stitching on the last photo is done very accurately. The leach also looks very well sewn.

On 8/10/2021 at 9:34 AM, Ab Hoving said:

Good project Backer!

Ab

Thanks the commentaar.

Backer is now on vacation. plenty of time to study about sails and sail making.

1 hour ago, bruce d said:

Hello Patrick, yes it is interesting but  ... see this thread to find what others think of it as a reliable source:

 

🤐

Indeed 🤐

Also interesting

http://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/2290

THE EVOLUTION OF DECORATIVE WORK ON
ENGLISH MEN-OF-WAR FROM THE 16th TO THE 19th CENTURIES

Steere-MA2004 versiering.pdf

The further sail making "adventures" 

All that follows are experiments. Which have probably already been done by others.

A first test with a piece the cotton cloth.

On this machine : the smaller the number the longer the stitching, the 0 goes backwards.  The smallest stitching (about 1mm) thus results in a line.

Results test 1 with a trial sail.
1 learn to stitch better and straighter(need to practice more)
2 Indeed too thick, but this can be camouflaged with the rope that is sewn around it.
3 the texture of the fabric is indeed quite rough.

Test 2 with the mizzen sail.

Looks pretty decent. But the silcspan will also deserves a chance after this.

Thanks for folowing, comments and likes

As always
Very nice work Rodolfo

useful ??

https://www.hismodel.com/articles-category-28

22 hours ago, G.L. said:

Patrick,

As a reward for your restoration work on the sewing machine you will receive this Tribute to Singer from me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQfq1GcYzu0

 

  Geweldig...   Awesome

17 hours ago, allanyed said:

First of all your model is gorgeous and I love the old Singer machine!!! 

Thank you very much, much appreciated

17 hours ago, allanyed said:

If it is not too late,

No, 

The stitching was a test whether the machine works properly. 
This will be trying and testing first. To see which stitching will look good.

The cotton sheet looks ok. And somewhere I hope to be able to use it. I actually like this work with a sewing machine (makes me relax)
The cotton  is of course too thick (in a real  it is about half an inch thick) But with a rope sewn around it hopefully it won't be noticeable.

All options are still open

Once I found this on MSW and printed it. But I can't find this on the site anymore. Only through google search

https://modelshipworldforum.com/resources/Rigging_and_Sails/ScaleSails.pdf