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Michael, Your block with the 'hard' eye strop is much better! Usually, the seizing went all the way around the thimble. John -
Kats, It's great to see the way that you're rebuilding the Lady's log! John
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Sarah, I've made that type of spurling pipe in the past from brass tube. Heat the tube to red heat and allow it to cool in order to anneal it; put a piece of wire of roughly the inside diameter of the tube up inside it to stop it from kinking and then bend it over 90 degrees and cut off to length. If you do it that way you can also leave a bit of length on one end of it to put into the deck. John
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Michael, Stropped blocks usually had a thimble in the eye, and the strop around the thimble was usually served, as well. Looking at your photo of the stropped block, it looks like the rope of the strop has become partially unlaid in the process, which is what's making it look odd. John
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Thanks folks. If we don't all get washed away in this latest East Coast rain depression, I'll try and get back to work! John
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Scratch build 1/12 Stern Trawler Shirley-Ann
Jim Lad replied to Sir Blue Henry's topic in RC Kits & Scratch building
Hey - it's nice to see you back, mate! Looking forward to seeing your trawler again! John -
Titanic by Ricky - Mantua
Jim Lad replied to ricky146's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day
Ricky, The lesson is: - use all the information you can lay your hands on, and not just the instruction book! John -
Come on, Håkan, pictures, man, pictures! John
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Sarah, I found some photos that might help you. 1. Bollards to the left of this photo of a preserved trawler in the U.K. 2. A coaling scuttle on the same trawler 3. A photo off the web of a small spurling pipe (for the anchor shain) of the type shown on your plan. John
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Beautiful work on that block, Michael! John
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All ready for the lobsters, Popeye! John
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Nice to see your build back, Sumner! John
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Dale, The Stag is actually carvel built. Although a lot of early cutters were clinker hulled, the plans for the Stag show her very clearly as being carvel. In theory, the difference between a cutter and a sloop (bearing in mind that in the 18th century a sloop could also be a small three masted ship) was that the cutter had a running bowsprit while the sloop had a fixed bowsprit, however in practice the terms seem to have been used rather loosely. Falconer (Marine Dictionary 1780) lists a cutter as a sloop rigged vessel used in the south of England by smugglers and by the customs service. John
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Thank you, gentlemen! John
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Great to see that your putting her back in her home, Lars! John
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Thank you, Carl! John
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Well, perhaps I'm mistaken, so I've sorted out a selection of files and will post them in the following few posts. Again, if anyone has any questions on what the heck I was doing up to now, please don't hesitate to ask. John
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Tim, It's nice to see that your build is alive and well in our new home! John
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Another very interesting looking build, Chris! John
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