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Forestay

Now for the Forestay

Serving the splice

Thanks for all the likes and kudos guys. Next up was to complete the 5th deadeye and shroud, which is a single line with a spliced loop to go over the mast and down to the port side to complete the shrouds for the Foremast. Then the Forestay was made and attached over the top of the shroud loops and down to the Bowsprit and then siezed in 2 places one at the top and one at the bottom. It is attached at the top using 2 Bullseyes and lashed using a Lanyard. The flexibility of the serving machine really came in handy making the splice and then serving it into the line. Would really be hard to do this without it, and it has many adjustments.

Have 4 installed now

tightening up Lanyards

Have 4 installed now

I've been continuing with making shrouds and deadeyes so far, hope to get more today as time permits. Got Port side first shroud on and tightened things up now on to the rest for the foremast.
 
By the way, I ordered blocks and some line from Chuck. I now understand the fuss everyone has been making about his products. I have replaced all of the blocks that came with the kit with Chuck's....outstanding. I really didn't understand just how much of an improvement could be made by replacing the lines with Chuck's until I physically could see them. As funds permit I intend to completely replace the lines that came with the kit and only use Chuck's. Well worth the investment guys. I'm going to be posting all of these on my website shortly as well as letting my followers and customers know how to contact Chuck to purchase their own.

Have 4 installed now

I've been continuing with making shrouds and deadeyes so far, hope to get more today as time permits. Got Port side first shroud on and tightened things up now on to the rest for the foremast.
 
By the way, I ordered blocks and some line from Chuck. I now understand the fuss everyone has been making about his products. I have replaced all of the blocks that came with the kit with Chuck's....outstanding. I really didn't understand just how much of an improvement could be made by replacing the lines with Chuck's until I physically could see them. As funds permit I intend to completely replace the lines that came with the kit and only use Chuck's. Well worth the investment guys. I'm going to be posting all of these on my website shortly as well as letting my followers and customers know how to contact Chuck to purchase their own.

Nice serving job John! 
 
Cheers

Have 4 installed now

Have 4 installed now

I've been continuing with making shrouds and deadeyes so far, hope to get more today as time permits. Got Port side first shroud on and tightened things up now on to the rest for the foremast.
 
By the way, I ordered blocks and some line from Chuck. I now understand the fuss everyone has been making about his products. I have replaced all of the blocks that came with the kit with Chuck's....outstanding. I really didn't understand just how much of an improvement could be made by replacing the lines with Chuck's until I physically could see them. As funds permit I intend to completely replace the lines that came with the kit and only use Chuck's. Well worth the investment guys. I'm going to be posting all of these on my website shortly as well as letting my followers and customers know how to contact Chuck to purchase their own.

Have 4 installed now

I've been continuing with making shrouds and deadeyes so far, hope to get more today as time permits. Got Port side first shroud on and tightened things up now on to the rest for the foremast.
 
By the way, I ordered blocks and some line from Chuck. I now understand the fuss everyone has been making about his products. I have replaced all of the blocks that came with the kit with Chuck's....outstanding. I really didn't understand just how much of an improvement could be made by replacing the lines with Chuck's until I physically could see them. As funds permit I intend to completely replace the lines that came with the kit and only use Chuck's. Well worth the investment guys. I'm going to be posting all of these on my website shortly as well as letting my followers and customers know how to contact Chuck to purchase their own.

tightening up Lanyards

Today, I finished the first shroud, made the eye and added it to the stbd. foremast. Was real busy with the business today, so didn't get much done, but at least a little progress. The Lanyards are taught, but not finished, just tightened up for spacing. Now for Port.

I've been continuing with making shrouds and deadeyes so far, hope to get more today as time permits. Got Port side first shroud on and tightened things up now on to the rest for the foremast.
 
By the way, I ordered blocks and some line from Chuck. I now understand the fuss everyone has been making about his products. I have replaced all of the blocks that came with the kit with Chuck's....outstanding. I really didn't understand just how much of an improvement could be made by replacing the lines with Chuck's until I physically could see them. As funds permit I intend to completely replace the lines that came with the kit and only use Chuck's. Well worth the investment guys. I'm going to be posting all of these on my website shortly as well as letting my followers and customers know how to contact Chuck to purchase their own.

I've been continuing with making shrouds and deadeyes so far, hope to get more today as time permits. Got Port side first shroud on and tightened things up now on to the rest for the foremast.
 
By the way, I ordered blocks and some line from Chuck. I now understand the fuss everyone has been making about his products. I have replaced all of the blocks that came with the kit with Chuck's....outstanding. I really didn't understand just how much of an improvement could be made by replacing the lines with Chuck's until I physically could see them. As funds permit I intend to completely replace the lines that came with the kit and only use Chuck's. Well worth the investment guys. I'm going to be posting all of these on my website shortly as well as letting my followers and customers know how to contact Chuck to purchase their own.

I've been continuing with making shrouds and deadeyes so far, hope to get more today as time permits. Got Port side first shroud on and tightened things up now on to the rest for the foremast.
 
By the way, I ordered blocks and some line from Chuck. I now understand the fuss everyone has been making about his products. I have replaced all of the blocks that came with the kit with Chuck's....outstanding. I really didn't understand just how much of an improvement could be made by replacing the lines with Chuck's until I physically could see them. As funds permit I intend to completely replace the lines that came with the kit and only use Chuck's. Well worth the investment guys. I'm going to be posting all of these on my website shortly as well as letting my followers and customers know how to contact Chuck to purchase their own.

Hi guys, since I am new at this I hope that it has been set up properly, and I don't get Capn's Mast before I get started. I'll be trying to post some pictures later today as I get started. This will be a slow progress as I am in no hurry, I am also completing a Revell Constitution, I'm retired - and I do have a life besides model ship building...cooking and good cold beer do come first...life does have priorities you know. I'm not sure if shipbuilding causes me to drink my beer or drinking beer causes me to build ships....that one is still being investigated, but so far no results...gotta have my Grog....not much of a Rum drinker, so daily Rations won't help much, however a good Malt Whiskey never hurt....
 
Anyway, back to ships. This kit has been of interest for many years, and I now have the opportunity to do my first wood ship. I have scratch built models of oilfield production equipment from wood and have enjoyed doing that for many years, so the wood, being intimidating but not overwhelming should be fun - but slow, so bear with me guys, and I'll try to keep current.
 
Let the voyage begin....Bon Voyage and if I can get the pictures downloaded, I should be posting them soon....
 
Hello interested individuals, an update for this build log is that as of 10-10-2014 I have transferred my interest in building this log to my own website. If you are interested in following this please click on the link below to go to the website. There are quite a few pages of pictures in this log (MSW)that are missing due to a glitch that occurred earlier in the year. Therefore, I have committed my time to my own log, which has a lot of information for building this model in it. Sorry for any inconvenience, however, I think you'll like it better than this log. My site has a complete Build Log in it up to the point that I currently am at in the build. MSW is a wonderful site, and one can learn much from it. Please follow your friends and their logs here it will be rewarding.
 
the link is: http://www.charleswmorganmodel.com
 
Thanks,
John

I understood that it was a direct order from some Admiral sometime back and was never rescended....

Hi George, welcome aboard. Yes grab a barrel and some popcorn....only thing is you might want to grab an adult beverage to hang with this crew.....Thanks for the kind words, yeah getting to this stage is exciting and starting to get fun again.

Hi John:   Just happened upon your Morgan and she's looking mighty fine. I know it's a little late to join the party but, wouldn't mind pulling up a barrel and following along if you don't mind.
 
Cheers