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    I will definitely try this approach, never thought about it.. Appreciated, Cheers
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    No, thanks for a link, appreciated. I think i got the idea how to do it to save wood, saw and fingers..
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    Thanks, appreciated. I will try to do it with my saw but most likely will try to find someone local with more powerful saw... Thanks again.
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    Thank you very much for detailed replay, really appreciated. I think i will try to find some local woodworker, dont want to overuse my saw.. I believe it is a Sweet Cherry judging by your explanation. Thanks again, much appreciated.
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    Hello, apologies if this is not correct forum for this type of question. I have a pile of cherry logs, app 3in in diameter and about foot long. I would like to mill it so i can use it in model building. I do have a 9in wood band saw, mini table saw, a planer and "normal" table saw. Logs still have a bark on it and they went thru some "drying" process laying on the floor in my shop. I am not sure how to attack it to get the most of it for ship building so any suggestion/how-tos will be much appreciated. Also, any recommendation in which stage of ship modelling i can use this type of wood (deck planking, deck furniture, etc) would be appreciated. Thanks...
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    Work on fore gaff continues... To stiffen the line and to have it look tighten, i diluted white glue 1 part glue 8 part water, using a brush i put some amount of watered glue to the line. Home made weight was connected with a piece of rope (tiny black line at the top of fore gaff) to make sure gaff stays tighten while glue dries.. Happy modeling.
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    Few pictures during installation... Happy modeling...
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    Parral beads were simulated in the same way as for the boom. The beads were cut from the toothpick, the hole was drilled thru the center, the line was put thru and they were painted flat black.. The beads were also sanded close to rounded shape... The tackles were made for throat halliard and for throat downhaul... Peak halliard line was made starting with a eye.... The main gaff was mounted and the lines were covered with a white glue, diluted heavily with water, to stiffen the lines and to make them straight.. To help with straightening, the home made alligator clip was used... The fore gaff waiting for installation... Happy modeling..
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    The work continues... The rigged 2mm block.. This picture reminds me of a MG-42 machine gun... Happy modeling
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    Fore gaff construction completed; well at least building part. Now blocks, rope, etc have to be installed. First the shape of a jaws was traced on piece of wood, cut and sanded.. Attached to the giff, iron band installed and hole drilled. The eye bolt mounted as well. This time no snap effect.. Painted in flat black... Ready for next step. Happy modeling.
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    Next step was to cut a small grove for a jaws by positioning the gaff into wise and cutting the grove in very slowly pace. To make it a bit stronger i wrapped around gaff a small piece of scotch tape. If anyone has more efficient idea of how to cut this grove pls share it... I have one more to make... The jaws were slide in the grove and glued. A little bit of sanding was applied on the whole construction to make it smoother.. Then an "iron" bands made out of electrical tape, were cut and positioned. I also added small amount of glue to make sure those "iron" band will stay put. Then i made a small hook, drilled a hole for it in the gaff, started to push hook in, and ..... snap. A bit too much pressure to install the hook not realizing that small amount of glue applied on both ends of the hole, started to stiffen already... OK, well, trying to glue a jaws back on the gaff was not quite an option in this case. Before I already made few extra gaffs on lathe in longer length so used one of spares. The jaw was refurbished by removing all traces of old gaff, sanded it a bit and mounted on the new gaff. The iron band was next, and hook making sure that glue does not cure before hook is mounted. That extra wire was sanded on opposite side of a jaws. The layer of flat black was added afterwards.. Small holes for the parral beads were also drilled through the jaw ends.. Happy modeling.
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    The construction of main and fore gaff has started. First the measurements were taken from the plan... Then the gaffs were made on the lathe... The gaffs were colored before cutting them from the lathe... Then the making of giff end (not sure what is the correct term) was started by tracing its shape to the scotch tape... Then, the scotch tape was put on the piece of wood, and the shape was cut. The final adjustments and mounting yet to come.. More to come...
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    The foot rope has been completed and installed. The knots are done separately by knotting thinner rope over the main rope. I was unable to make all knots in the correct distance by just making knots with the main rope. Had to resize the holes that foot rope goes thru since both ropes have to use the same opening... Happy modeling..
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    Thanks, i will check it out. Appreciated.
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    I' am just saying THANK YOU, THANK YOU A LOT. I will definitely start with a first book " The Persians" and will continue with "A history of Greece" and will follow the reading path these two books will make for me.. I am all set for long winter 🙂 Now i remember while in highschool, the mandatory reading was Odyssey and Iliad. Now just need to find those books and to refresh my memory. Time permitting will also make another Greek ship and these two books about trireme will be on my shelves, for sure.. Again, i much appreciate your time and effort you have put in this reading suggestions. I based all my figures on this design i located on the net:
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    Thanks for your comments. If this will not cause you too much of a trouble, i would definitely not mind getting a hand of your wall of resources. And will very much appreciate it.. I might just stick with Lambda design as all these above are be a bit too hard to reproduce unless i find a way to resize it and print on correct paper. But i will definitely save it for future references. Thanks again..
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    Much appreciated all your comments; keep them coming. That is very interesting part of world history, most of the time not covered correctly, depending on history writer... Do you mind sharing some resource info about shield designs? I still have several uncompleted figures i can paint in different design that overall makes sense. And still have some space on the vessel for them...
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    Hi Nikiforos, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately there was no way for me to find correct soldiers for my ship so i ended up with a bit of a mess between warriors and ship origins but hopefully not too far apart. These little dudes are very hard to find anywhere on the net; if you know better place to get correct warriors for the ship pls let me know.... I will replace them gladly... The rest of them are making me a company on my current build - Sultana... Definitely a not historically correct match 🙂... Thanks for following, Cheers,
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    The topping lift was next. First i seized a 3mm single block to the end of not that long black rigging line. I am running out of this rigging line so have to plan every single cm... The place where i purchased these from are not making them in black anymore. The other end of the rope was seized to the eye bolt on the cap. The length of the topping lift was adjusted according to the plan and it should be app 4cm from the boom. The tackle for the topping lift was rigged with tan rigging line (.008). After running the rope end thru the boom it was belayed to the cleat on the boom. The complete assembly included a rope coil.. The running end was belayed to the pin on the double block which was seized to the traveler. It took me some time to do this task as the work area is not that generous in space but freezing the end of the rope and use of the small tweezers did the trick. The small rope coil was hung on the pin after all is assembled. Then the footrope was attacked. I was not able to tight the knots on the same distance apart so i decided to use a smaller rope diameter to make knots. The footrope was stretched to make knotting job a bit easier. End i noticed that tomorrow is a working day so had to stop this exercise... More to come.. Happy modeling.
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    Thanks Imagna, very much appreciated. Cheers
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    Almost there, almost there.. The challenge will be what next.. Thank you, appreciated. Cheers
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    Thanks Jaager, i will check it out. Appreciated.
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    Hello vaddoc, thanks. I have a handful of broken bits waiting for some other usage than drilling 🙂 Appreciated.
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    I put myself on their email list so i can get their flyers.. Appreciated. Cheers
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    Thanks, will check them out. Cheers

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