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Thanks for the likes. 
 
#cog. 
Besides the plans for this mill that you have, what other ones do you have? What is the difficulty level of them? You mentioned way back that you purchased from penterbak. 
Marcus 

Created the metal work for the deadeyes. Tried several ways of attaching the deadeyes to metal links and came up with a simple way of doing it. They are a bit crude looking. 
The picture in the book shows a simple method and I somewhat followed that as well. 

Main mast channels and deadeyes 
 

Mizen mast and deadeyes. 
 
Been making some more blocks, just a couple everytime. Will start on the masts and yards next. 
Marcus 

Excellent metal work. Clean looking as well 
Marcus 

Created the metal work for the deadeyes. Tried several ways of attaching the deadeyes to metal links and came up with a simple way of doing it. They are a bit crude looking. 
The picture in the book shows a simple method and I somewhat followed that as well. 

Main mast channels and deadeyes 
 

Mizen mast and deadeyes. 
 
Been making some more blocks, just a couple everytime. Will start on the masts and yards next. 
Marcus 

Have been spending several weeks making different types of blocks. Very time consuming assembly work. Several hours everyday.
After looking at prices of the different types of blocks I need for the Boyer, it made sense to me to make them myself and save some money. Compared to what is on the market, my blocks are not as nice looking...... Yet. But with time, they will become better looking. 
 
Once I start building a Fluit and a war yacht I may just cave and purchase the blocks as I need lots of them. 
 
Tried out different type of stock to see for myself what works. Walnut (easy, sands well, will use this for the Boyer), cherry (breaks easily), pear (sands well, no breakage), birch (splinters), and maple (too light in color). 
 
I created my own method from the combination of several articles I have on file. 
 
Stock is measured in 4, 5, 6, and 7mm width and thickness. Length of dowel is 30cm. With a slithing blade on the saw, 2 slits, 2mm apart, 1mm deep are cut the length of the dowel as well as the opposite side of the dowel. 



 
Here I will measure and mark with pencil the different sizes of the blocks. Ever block has a 5mm boundary area between it. 

 
Sheave openings are drilled. 

Now comes the tedious part of the exercise. 
Boundary cuts are made as we as removing the rest of the stock between the blocks. 
 


 
Top if the picture shows the isolated blocks. 
Close to the bottom of the picture is where I am sanding the edges to create an elliptical form. 
The bottom of the picture shows the blocks. The final part of the exercise is the filling in of the stropping grooves and giving the blocks a final sanding. 

Hope this made some sense. 
Marcus 

That is a serious looking rudder. Beautifully executed. 
Marcus 

I inherited a dremel Moto 700 lathe from the secretary of the North West Indiana Woodworkers club and with that item I've made grooves in various size dowels (birch, walnut and cherry) in about 2 hours.

 
When filling a straight groove by hand this is the most difficult part of making a deadeye. With the lathe it is faster and straight. 
Got 19 dowels which will be about 450 deadeyes. Enough for a few ships. 

 
Drilling holes and cutting them off with the saw is easy. 
Marcus 

Created the windlass and the windlass pawl which will be positioned in the midline on the inboard stem. I added four sticks in a rack in front of the windlass. In real life these are used to turn the windlass. 


 
Created and installed the upper and lower brass pieces which are pinned to the upper stem to house the tie down for the main stay. Forged brass loop which has been attached to the stem and will be used to hold the gammoning ropes to support and fix the bowsprit in place. 


Marcus 

Created more deadeyes. 
1: Take a dowel and put it upright in a vise. Use a drill press and a dremel with a 0.061 bit and drill three holes. 

 
2: Remove the dowel from the vise and carefully file a groove all around.

 
3: Use saw to cut the deadeye of the dowel.

 
4: Put the deadeye in the drum sander which consists of the following: plastic jar lined with sandpaper (gritt 120) with screw lid, quarter inch dowel which have 2 pieces of sand paper (gritt 120) glued to it
I either roll the dowel by hand or attach drill to it running the drill at 3 second bursts. 

 
Marcus 

Worked on the channels and created some deadeyes from both cherry and birch. 


Pictures will follow from the crude looking deadeyes. 
Marcus 

Kortes, 
The Sperwer is coming along nicely. Everything of the pilot house (kajuit) is beautifully executed. 
At the scale you are building all the details come out really well. 
Marcus 

Wonderful metal work. 
Marcus 

She is starting to look great. Nice sanding job. 
Marcus 

Thanks for the likes. 
 
#cog. 
Besides the plans for this mill that you have, what other ones do you have? What is the difficulty level of them? You mentioned way back that you purchased from penterbak. 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus 

Created the metal work for the deadeyes. Tried several ways of attaching the deadeyes to metal links and came up with a simple way of doing it. They are a bit crude looking. 
The picture in the book shows a simple method and I somewhat followed that as well. 

Main mast channels and deadeyes 
 

Mizen mast and deadeyes. 
 
Been making some more blocks, just a couple everytime. Will start on the masts and yards next. 
Marcus 

Wonderful metal work. 
Marcus 

Thanks for the likes. 
 
#cog. 
Besides the plans for this mill that you have, what other ones do you have? What is the difficulty level of them? You mentioned way back that you purchased from penterbak. 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus 

Finished the mill, except for the sails which I still need to dye dark brown. Once the weather is warm (several months from now) I will revisit this build with outside pictures. For now, here are some shots of the finished mill. 

Crooked brick work.  Will be improved with me next mill. 
 


Shutters and window.  Another window with shutters on the opposite side. 
 

Door and step. There is another door and steps on the opposite side. 
 

Four small windows. The imitated gray thatch has some yellow ochre painted on to give it some contrast. 
 


Wheel with rope.



The flag is painted with acrylic. I think it will deteriorate after the first rain. Need to make something with linnen. 
 
 

The beard.
Letters were carved out and painted red. It says "Anno 1992" "Stichting Molens". Not all the text fitted on the 'beard'. Did not have a template for smaller letters. 
 
 

Color coded vanes. It is not visible, except if you look closely. It is coded so I know which vane goes where on the copper tubing. 


Copper tubing without the vanes. 
 

My nosey cat. 
 


That completes the build. Thank you all for following, giving advice and uploading various beautiful pictures of the different mills the Netherlands has to offer 
Marcus