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Question Sherboune 1763 Inventory Rigging and blocks
druxey replied to cotrecerf's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Source, Mark, is Ch10/65 or CHN 0105 RMG (Royal Museums Greenwich). -
Um.. why not painted paper or card strips instead of brass?
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Question Sherboune 1763 Inventory Rigging and blocks
druxey replied to cotrecerf's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
The 'fishhooks' are the numeral 1, as are the green circled numerals. -
I only woke up to the benefits of parallel pliers a few years ago when I took a jewelry making course. Wish I'd had a pair decades ago! They are indispensable for miniature 'smithing'. Lovely work there. BTW, my capsquares were built up, not cast. Mind you, I didn't need the quantity of them that you require.
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SeaWatch is the sole distributor, Brian.
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It's probably water content in rubbing alcohol that softens the wood.
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Some wood springs back more than other species. Basswood has very little spring-back in thin pieces.
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It's amazing how, with the planksheer and timberheads, the model suddenly looks more finished - even if it isn't! Lovely work there, Alex.
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Ad infinitum or ad nauseam, HH? Example of capsquare attached to a 12lb carronade carriage. Admittedly it is at 1:48 scale, but on a carriage that size they are pretty small!
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OK, oh OCD one: what about the hinge on one end and the square hole at the other?
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Morgan: I would agree with your assessment of the 'stand-off' effect of the cleats, as well as preventing the breeching from hanging up on top of the front of the cheek.
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Gee, that's the Rolls Royce version, Mark. Mine was a Ford: just a half-round the diameter of the trunnion glued to a flat surface. The strip of copper was pressed down using a suitable pair of tweezers on edge each side of the half-round. Worked fine. I am definitely not my father's son! (See previous comment).
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Ah yes, the good old (literally) 'thorn' that looks like a 'y' ( as in ye olde). I suppose, Steven, that the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf is your bed-time reading? I like Seamus Heaney's translation, although I hear that a new really good version has just been published. But I digress!
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Para Handy - I love your 'handle' and reference to those Neil Munro stories! - I agree completely with your assessment of the various tool brands. Some are "Chust sublime!"
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Swan-Class Sloop by Stuglo - FINISHED - 1:48
druxey replied to stuglo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
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Sometimes explosive effects are very strange.
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Yes, there was a move to run the breeching line through the large ring bolts in order to control a gun 'jumping' on recoil.
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Let's hope it doesn't go rancid, then! That look pretty deep for its length.
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Was the pigtail of L'Orient's conductor bent by the explosion?
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No, Jim, you are thinking of formal dessert! Welcome to the silliness that is MSW, jdowney.
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No, Tom, the shaped moldings are parallel (when seen from the side) to the ship's sheer (the upward curve). Also, the timberheads 'lean in' according to the tumblehome at the top of the ship's side, so their tops are horizontal as seen from ahead or astern. Complex geometry, varying for each timberhead, that many modelers avoid - but not Alex!
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For anyone interested in learning to read old 'hands' such as the sample posted by Allan, there is an excellent free self-tutorial course from the British National Archives. Start here! https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/reading-old-documents/ The perfect way to educate yourself while waiting for the pandemic to pass....
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Each timberhead top has a slightly different angle to it, depending on the ship's sheer. Therefore one has to cut the tops by hand for the best result.
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And, of course, the double-s at the end of words like 'exprefs'. In English typesetting the long 's' was used at the beginning of word. One unfortunate example I came across referred to brake pumps as 'sucking pumps', except that the first 's' looked like an 'f'!
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