Cpt Jack Sparrow

Hate to hear that Steve, I enjoyed watching your progress. Sometimes you just gotta do it though...

Neat jig

What an incredible piece of craftsmanship.

Amazing work, beautiful craftsmanship. What an amazing build!

Love the pictures, hopefully I'll make it to see her one day...

Awesome job!

Looking good Tom. I'd say it's a pretty good feeling to finally start hanging the yards!

Nice work!

Amazing skills Ken!

Looking good

As this will be my next build, I think I'll watch how yours is coming along while I finish "The Black Pearl"

Coming along nicely. This kit was my first build back in the late 70's

Indeed a major milestone Geoff. I like the idea of stepping the masts, that's how it's done on a real ship. That's how I'm doing The Black Pearl. The kit instructions are terrible so I'm doing my best to rig it using references found on here along with several books I've purchased. Rigging Period Ship Models by Lennarth Peterson has been a great help!

I'm actually building The Black Pearl for my wife. When I told her I was wanting to get back into this hobby that's what she really wanted. I wanted to do the Constitution. So, in order to make her happy I agreed to do The Pearl first. I know the Connie will take a bit longer.

Nice work Angel! Love the viking ship. Was it a kit or scratch build. I hope to scratch build one of those some day...

What an awesome build Ken! Truly an inspiration for mine! I hope you don't mind if I borrow a few ideas...

Beautiful work Geoff, plan on starting mine soon. Probably borrow a few of your ideas along with some others...

Looking good CaptainSteve, hopefully I'll get to start mine after the new year, looking forward to it. I'll be following your build as well.

Nice work on the boats! I hope to start my Connie soon, I'll be following yours along with some others.

Beautiful build so far Tom, can't wait to start on mine with the help of your log and a few of the other Connie builders.

Looking good Tom. This is going to be my next build, looking forward to it. In the mean time, I'll watch how yours is coming along

Are you saying the kit is 77 years old? That should be interesting. Who made the kit (if you don't mind me asking)? The USS Constitution has always been a favorite ship of mine. With any luck I'll get to visit her next year. In case you haven't figured it out, I'm also a big fan of PotC. It's actually pretty hard to find a decent looking wooden Black Pearl kit. Amati makes one, but I wasn't too happy with the way it looked. I've changed a lot of the Black Pearl Kit I'm working on now simply because I didn't like the manufacturers design. I'm really pleased with the way it's turning out so far, since this is may first wooden POB build. Most importantly so is my wife. When I told her I was thinking picking up ship building, that's what she wanted. I of course wanted the Connie. I'm actually glad my wife was so insistent on The Black Pearl. I wanted to start into this hobby a few years back but it was real hard to find a wooden Black Pearl Kit. Revell has a plastic kit, but I've already done a plastic version of the Constitution. I wanted my next build to be a wooden kit. Then, earlier this year my mother passed away. After the funeral we got to talking about my Connie that Mom wouldn't let me take out of the house. That's when I decide this would be the year to get back into it and as a tribute to my mother, I would build the Connie again, this time in wood. I finally found a Black Pearl kit i thought was decent and found the Connie on sale. I got my wife to agree to let me do both. I can only hope my Connie turns out as good as some of the ones I've seen on here.

Thanks Kurt!

Ed,, I sent you a PM. Will gladly PM anyone interested on who NOT to buy from

Ed, I thought Chuck had written something up about which pirated companies are not allowed on this site, but I can't seem to find the post. Maybe Chuck can help out. It's from a company out of China. What that experience has taught me was to do a little more research on kits before considering the purchase. There's some folks out there that say this particular kit is not pirated but the fact that this company does pirating is enough for me not to do business with them again. I believe one of Chucks very own plans were pirated by this company.