KORTES

Thank you Keith.

An outstanding masterpiece!

My best regards,

Alexander.

Johann your handicraft is truly amazing!

My best regards.

Alexander.

Here are some more elements, before final fitting and assembling.

Topmast cross-trees and hoop heads, material - black hornbeam.

Tops of the masts, bowsprit and the end of the boom were painted with printer ink.

Basically I finished the spars. Material - pear tree and black hornbeam.

Keith your handicraft is truly amazing!

My best regards. 

I finished the hatchway lids. As the size of the elements is small I had to make a pattern out of nail.

Thank you very much Gary.

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.

Thank you very much, Carl.

Voorstag.

Rigging elements.

Dear colleague. I'm very glad if my experinece would be of a help.

The hull has dried.

I started installing deck elements.

Thank you, my dear colleagues, for the evaluating my work.

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”.

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.

After critical remarks of my friends, experts in snakes - I have redone the head.

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.

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.