JesseLee
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Thats some pretty good brass work!
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Enjoy your vacation. Looking forward to your return!
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Rigged the bowsprit bobstay then jumped over to some yards. My plans didn't show jackstays on the yards but I decided to put them anyway. Made my wire eyes. Drilled holes, glued them in & added jackstays. I will take the liberty to add some other things like stuns'l booms as well.
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Steve, I was a bench jeweler for 21 years till chronic lyme disabled me & I lost my career.
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Been away from the shipyard the last few days. Helping some friends out. Stayed at their house with their 3 kids while they were at the hospital having their 4th one! Got to be one of the first few people to hold her. So precious!
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Yes real thread huge difference! Keith, we've started to get bills in for the first one & realized we have to wait a while for the second one because of the cost. Don't know how long it will be now.
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Thanks everyone. My hand has pretty much healed other than some normal pain from being cut & some weakness that can be dealt with by using it.
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When I got my new thread in I didn't want to leave what little rigging I had already done on the bowsprit with the old stuff. I cut it all off & started over with the new. Much better looking rigging now.
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Thanks guys, didn't think about that. Just deleted it
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My build has been on hold first from carpal tunnel release recovery, second from my lyme flaring up & third I wanted to replace the line supplied in the kit with something better. Got a package in the other day I have been waiting for from Syren Ship Model Co. Got my new rigging line in. This stuff is so much better quality! A side by side shot shows the difference! Rolled them up on some spools & was so ready to start back to building but Murphy's law rules around here. It's 95+ degrees & the fire ants fried our air conditioner. Another delay....
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Love the pump. Wish mine looked that good!
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Keith, my AL string looks like uneven poor quality string. Doesn't look like mini-rope at all. Grant, I plan on getting 4 maybe 5 sizes & of course 2 colors- 2 are out of stock but Chuck tells me they will be available by the weekend.... Really hoping I can get the better rope John, I did it the hard way. I used mini files to cut down the thickness & fingernail emery sticks to shape it up & finish it up. This is very difficult. They are so small & hard to hold (especially with one hand still with bad carpal tunnel , the other one still recovering from surgery, & severe nerve damage from late stage lyme disease). The emery boards are great sanding tools for small work. They are cheap, you can get them just about anywhere & they come in all different grits.
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Thanks everyone! Not much work getting done, here are a few pics of progress on some of the yards. I have been doing a lot of thinking & planning. Doing some stalling because I am at the beginning of the rigging stages & I am not liking the rigging thread supplied in the kit. Trying to get the Admiral to let me order new rope from Chuck. Been looking his stuff over & it looks much better than what I have now. I guess I'll be shaping the rest of the yards, doing some weathering & other things in the meantime.
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Jumping around a bit. Shaped a few of the yards & started on some of the trusses. The foreyard truss is wood attached with metal pins & CA glue. Will add bands later. The lower fore topsail yard truss I made out of metal wire. Banded it onto the yard with flattened metal wire wrapped around & hooked into notches in the yard. CA glued them, filled in the area where the wire notched into the yard, filed it down to match the rest of the band & painted them. This was a little complicated, wrapping CA coated paper would have done & looked just as good but wouldn't have held the truss very strong.
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Always learning something new. Thanks for showing how to make the extra long yards. I've never seen that before.
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here are some shots that show how the supplied pins looked & fitted & how they look & fit now after making them thinner...
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Thank you Vivian, Keith, Keith, Dee Dee, Mark Yamsterman, Jason, & F for the kind words & all the likes. Been busy sanding/filing belaying pins thinner. They are so fat they almost look like upside down bowling pins. Will try to get some pics up soon.
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