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  1. druxey
    Usually 'Waldos' are attached to the top timber beside them with a long scarph. I've not seen an independent one such as your illustration shows. Very interesting!
  2. druxey
    Bonne chance, mon ami! I'm finding your thread fascinating.
  3. druxey
    Yes, John, it's all about projection, but not in the psychological sense of the word!
  4. druxey
    This way madness lies.... It begs the question, why make things simple if you can make them complicated? Good luck with this partial square/partial cant frame (if I'm seeing this correctly, that is),
  5. druxey
    Sweet! And a happy Thanksgiving.
  6. druxey
    Looking lovely, Greg!
  7. druxey
    There's always ordering on the Internet if the drive is too iffy!
  8. druxey
    Good progress, Fam!
  9. druxey
    Good to read of Judy recovering. Making hinges on a snowy day is good therapy as well. They look terrific. I have some miniature burrs that I use as countersinks. Do you have such things?
  10. druxey
    No pins in the bitts, in my opinion, Siggi. The rails at the bulwarks are where lines were belayed at that time period. Other lines tied off at the bitts around the crosspiece and standard timberheads.
  11. druxey
    A most graphic description of a magazine explosion!
  12. druxey
    There is only one woolding on the mizzen mast, at the bottom of the hounds, Sigge. If there were more, the gaff would not be able to slide up and down without catching. Clearly, the mizen mast is not a made mast. Your furniture - especially the table, Windsor chairs and cabinetry - is lovely. I imagine books were all leather-bound back then. Somehow the yellow book jumps out at me. The large number of belaying pins in racks and on the cross-pieces began to appear once the open rails along the quarter deck and poop were closed in. It was then no longer possible to belay along the rails. So you would not see many belaying pins in 1760, as all the rails were open then. The partners at poop level would be very light, so just the circle of wedges around the mast would be visible, as in your last photo.
  13. druxey
    Another book that may assist: The Fireship Comet of 1783, SeaWatchBooks. This has an extensive section on the stern and quarter galleries as well as the headwork and carved works.
  14. druxey
    A one-piece deck is only realistic if there is no tumblehome on the topsides. If there is, one can't get a wide deck through a narrower space!
  15. druxey
    Very neat tabled scarph joints as well!
  16. druxey
    I know that in British practice, the merchant ships were plated from above to the the keel, but it was from keel to wale in Navy yards! This explains Edwin Fox, a merchant ship. Then there are the French.... It now appears to me that the illustration posted (Planche VII) that the overlap is such that one starts at the wale and works down. (I clicked the illustration to enlarge it this time.) Sorry if I created confusion in your mind, Mark!
  17. druxey
    With all due respect, the drawing shows the overlaps in such a way so one needs to start at the keel aft and work forward, strake by strake upward.
  18. druxey
    Delightful miniature engineering, as we've come to expect from you, Glenn!
  19. druxey
    I'm glad that things are on course again for you, Bob. That's good to hear. For those that are thinking of getting this volume - do. It's a full colour production with first and second-rate ships and eye-candy galore from the Rogers' Collection.
  20. druxey
    Oooh - the potential!
  21. druxey
    Draft marks were 6" high and 6" apart, so one could estimate the number of inches between feet that the ship drew. Nice example of lead over copper, jbshan.
  22. druxey
    I suspect tarred felt may have been used as 'insulator' between copper and lead. I believe it was an 18th century feature, Jason. The draught marks were usually of lead also. Before copper sheathing, the draught marks appear to have been incised into stem and stern posts. The marks were often filled with red paint, judging by contemporary models that show this feature.
  23. druxey
    Looks like you've both become unhinged.... Seriously, those are terrific looking miniature hinges that actually work.
  24. druxey
    Also, see Gaetan Bordeleau's Le Fleuron latest posting for a good alternative lo-tech solution.
  25. druxey
    In the lower diagram the shroud is right hand lay. If the twist in your own shrouds runs mirror image to this, you have a left hand lay. Also, look at the orientation of the lower deadeye, Captain Al. It is opposite to the upper one. Looks like your photos show the lower ones oriented incorrectly.

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