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  1. KORTES
    Johann your handicraft is truly amazing! My best regards. Alexander.
  2. KORTES
    Here are some more elements, before final fitting and assembling. Topmast cross-trees and hoop heads, material - black hornbeam.
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    Tops of the masts, bowsprit and the end of the boom were painted with printer ink.
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    Basically I finished the spars. Material - pear tree and black hornbeam.
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    Keith your handicraft is truly amazing! My best regards.
  6. KORTES
    I finished the hatchway lids. As the size of the elements is small I had to make a pattern out of nail.
  7. KORTES
    Thank you very much Gary.
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    The ring has to be set tight on the toothpick, so it wouldnt turn around. In this case the tootpick plays a role of a "holder". In the end the thimble may be refined with a help of broaching file. The smallest elements were made out of a wire with the 0.7 diameter.
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    Greetings dear Michael. Concerning the making of the thimbles. The method is not much technological, it requires a certain skill. Firstly I made rings from the wire of the required diameter. After that, i put a ring on the toothpick and using the PROXXON, with this cap, I took away the excess. All the manipulation were made using a toothpick and a ring.
  10. KORTES
    Thank you very much, Carl.
  11. KORTES
    Test assembling. Macro-filming. As usually showed some defects, which will be eliminated before the final assembling.
  12. KORTES
    Voorstag.
  13. KORTES
    Rigging elements.
  14. KORTES
    Dear colleague. I'm very glad if my experinece would be of a help.
  15. KORTES
    The hull has dried. I started installing deck elements.
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    Regarding the snake, my friends pointed out several mismatches. "Brother, the eyes are in the front part of the head:) and the are on the sides. It cant look directly ahead. the face doesnt get thiner in the upper and lower part. In general its just a thick triangle triangle. But the mouth is till the neck :D" I had to remake.
  18. KORTES
    Thank you, my dear colleagues, for the evaluating my work.
  19. KORTES
    Aft end carving. It seems it looks ok in a life-size, but when substantially enlarged one can see faults that were made by the “carver”.
  20. KORTES
    I hope the carving work is done, being a dilettant - it was hard for me to carve at such a scale. Now I´ll have to oil-coat it, afterwards, probably cover it with bituminous varnish and install in place when the hull will have dried out.
  21. KORTES
    After critical remarks of my friends, experts in snakes - I have redone the head.
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    I decided to begin with what I considered the easiest element - the snake . I couldn’t find boxwood. I didn’t use lime tree due to its softness. So I have opted for a peartree, at least I’ll get some practice.I studied this part of work on the forum, of all my colleagues, found lots of useful information, for what I’m very grateful.
  23. KORTES
    While the hull is drying out, I got around to the carving. For quite some time, I have had a feeling I would have troubles in this field. Scale… I started by making the instrument, using broach files, drills, jigsaw saw and big needles.
  24. KORTES
    Thank you very much Bruce.
  25. KORTES
    And the last step. We fix the thick thread to our "chief" thread and pull it in in place of the pulled out threads. I had to skein the pulled-in thread, because I couldnt fing the thread of the required diameter. That's how I did it.

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