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  1. wefalck
    Well, personally I would not spend my precious time on something of which I know that it is historically incorrect, but this is my personal choice.
  2. wefalck
    Then do as you please ...
  3. wefalck
    There are various kits for 'staten jachten' on the market ... some of the kits are/were made in the same regions that produced the 'decorator' pieces. Good quality kits don't come from there anymore. Not sure, what you are up to. Do you want to identify a kit on which your specimen may have been based on ? I gather you would have to clear your mind, what you want to do with your 'wreck': do you want to restore to what it may have been once, namele a 'decorator' piece or something like that, or do you want to use it as a basis for a better rendering of such type of ship (I would recommend against that option).
  4. wefalck
    Interestingly, these 'decorator' pieces often seem to use massive wood, rather than plywood for structural parts as typically in kits. They reason may be that their centres of manufacture are or were around the Indian Ocean, say on Mauritius, where they had access to sawn tropical wood.
  5. wefalck
    Most of them look pretty 'home-grown' to me and bits and pieces can be sourced here and there. Whoever made the model, seems to have had certain artisanal capability, but evidently did not know too much about ships in general and this type in particular. The model is a bit incongruent in the sense that there are well-executed details, say the cabin-roof, the rails and so on, while others are pretty crude, such as the windlass or the anchors.
  6. wefalck
    I don't think this is kit-build model, doesn't quite look like it.
  7. wefalck
    I was wondering about those hinge-pins ... ;} But would have been a waste of time, indeed.
  8. wefalck
    I gather this applies when handling wire coming off a winch drum or situations like that. No gloves when working with machinery.
  9. wefalck
    My preferred containers are film-bottles. Lucky me, who always kept them, particularly the clear ones, as they are now a rare commodity.
  10. wefalck
    It's always difficult to make recommendations, particularly for products, when people don't state the country they are living in. 'Pore-filling lacquer' may actually be a poor translation. In German we call the stuff 'Porenfüller', the correct term in English would be 'sanding-sealer'. Essentially, this is a fast-drying nitrocellulose lacquer filled with some pumice dust. It fills the wood-pores with a mixture of lacquer and pumice and gives a smooth and tight surface very quickly. I often use it also as the final finish, because after sanding and/or rubbing down with steel-wool it preserves the natural appearance of the wood. Depending on the kind of wood used, it can also be polished to nice even sheen without having the appearance of a thick layer of varnish.
  11. wefalck
    IP ? ... and I always tried to find a use idea for those 'pizza-savers' - thanks for the tip, Bob. Tha'ts a modeller's mind: whenever he comes across 'something', he thinks, how it could be used in the workshop.
  12. wefalck
    I am years away from this ... at about the same time I made some sketches according to my ideas, Johann came up with his solution. Just think of Johann's solution, but rather hanging from the rope being served, I though of guiding/suporting it on a rail. Both ideas have their advantages and disadvantages. Johann's solution is light enough to move along the rope by itself, but requires that rope it stretched quite tightly. In my case, one would need to guide the steady manually, because the friction on the rail would be too big. One could go, however, to the trouble of installing change-gears (or stepper-motors) the couple the progress with the rotation of the rope, as noted earlier.
  13. wefalck
    Probably the most comprehensive source on rigging the last large sea-going ships is this (albeit in German): MIDDENDORF, F.L. (1903): Bemastung und Takelung der Schiffe.- 401 p., Kassel (reprint 1977 by Horst Hamecher). Middendorf did design the rigging for some Flying-P-Liners, notably the five-masted ship PREUSSEN. I believe this book as also used by ship-designers and riggers in other countries. I am not aware of any contemporary English-language book (Kipping was reprinted then, but the contents is much older). Indeed, every piece of rope to be man-handled would be natural fibre. Otherwise wire would be used, or chain. Chain was used in halliards, sheets of square sails and many other places. As the quality of wire became better, chains were often replaced by wire. However, whenever it had to go through tight bends, chain would be preferred. Sailing-ship seamen did not use gloves or mittens in general, because the grip in the rig would be less secure. However, Dana describes in his book how they made themselves mittens from raw-hide diverted from their cargo in order to better survive the icy conditions around Cape Hoorn. Leather gloves or mittens would be essential to handle wire-rope.
  14. wefalck
    What country, what period, what type of ship ?
  15. wefalck
    Obviously, whoever built the model spent quite a bit of effort on it. However, there are couple of features that are strange: - these side-gallerie I have never seen on such a small ship like a staten-jacht - the row of fire-buckets get in the way of the helm that normally ran in a kind of double floor underneath the cabin - the figure-head sits on the stem and not in front / on top of the galion (it may been displaced actually, when damaged) - the anchor arms are not right, the flat should be vertical, not horizontal
  16. wefalck
    I still think that a kind of travelling steady would be better, that supports the rope being served left and right of the point being served, without pulling on the rope overall. This could travel along a bar underneath the rope being served to support its weight. I don't have a need for served rope at the moment, but have already collated most of the material I will need for the construction of a serving machine. I have a design along the ideas outlined above in mind ...
  17. wefalck
    He really did it - at not just a finger-hole, as most of us would have done ...
  18. wefalck
    That's why I at least understood, how the machine works ...
  19. wefalck
    How on earth could I have missed out on this superb project and all the tool-making so far ... ? And not a flick of sawdust anywere, as clean as an operating theatre 😮 Keep it coming !
  20. wefalck
    Check out Johann's LA CREOLE building log: he has there a little device to suspend the bobbin with the serving thread from the rope that is being served. This avoids pulling the rope out of shape and advances by itself ...
  21. wefalck
    I don't know anything about these machines, but the problem is how to hold tight a section of rope, where the serving has been completed. One way is to wind it up onto a spool or bobbin. The same of course applies for the yet unserved part. An alternative would be to wedge the served and unserved part with some sort of collet or similar, but this could damage the serving and squash the the rope. I don't know, of course, how long your masts will be, but certainly the best option would be to stretch out the rope over the full required length, if at all possible. A completely different design would be probably more appropriate for an 'endless' serving machine: the rope should be stretched between two spools, keeping enough pull on it and the bobbin with the serving rope would rotate around the rope to be served. This is the principle used in full-size practice. One would need to advance the rope to be served between the two spools just by the thickness of the serving rope for each turn the bobbin makes. This can be effected by sets of change gears that connect the two spools with the part that spins the bobbin around the rope. Or, today this could be done CNC-fashion with three stepper motors.
  22. wefalck
    Yes, MAY, E.W. (1999): The Boats of Men-of-War.- 128 p., London (Chatham Publishing). is a useful reference book to have ...
  23. wefalck
    Looks like a 1st yacht out-fitting job !
  24. wefalck
    This guys must have devised another way of lifting up the floor boards then. They fit indeed very snuggly. From the few sailing trips I did with friends around the Mediterranean and the Carribean (I am only holding an inland waterways certificate), I remember that filled the bilge with conserves and bottles (not only water ) and that boards usually had finger hole.
  25. wefalck
    Looking very nice indeed. Actually, a few years ago I bought a 'deep-buttoned' chair for my desk and found that the deep-buttoning on the seat is not so comfortable - but looking nice definetely.

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