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  1. Gahm
    Your rigging looks great! As you say after Essex the ratlines must have been just a little "warm up" exercise for you Thomas
  2. Gahm
    Your Syren looks beautiful! And your progress is amazing!! Thomas
  3. Gahm
    Excellent job on the rigging so far! Thomas
  4. Gahm
    Beautiful rigging, Bob! Very well done! Thomas
  5. Gahm
    Great work, Sal! Very well done! Thomas
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    Hope you are feeling better soon! I love your little "helper cat" Thomas
  7. Gahm
    That looks very good, Sal! I like your way of making the mouse. Thomas
  8. Gahm
    You have done a very nice job on those head rails! They are not the easiest part of the Syren build Where do you get your boxwood from? Thomas
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    Your head rail looks very good! Excellent job! Thomas
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    Wow! Super work, Bob! Thomas
  11. Gahm
    I agree with Dirk, that really looks very nice! Thomas
  12. Gahm
    You are on a very good track with that head rail! This is one of the most difficult parts of the whole Syren build! Thomas
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    Thank you, Dirk! Thomas
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    Hello Richard, Image 1a in the last sequence of images shows just one brass piece. I hope the images below make things a bit clearer. I selected a round brass dowel with diameter slightly larger than the largest diameter of the cannon barrel (image 1a). This dowel was then mounted on the lathe in a 4-jaw-chuck with individual jaw alignment (it allows for more precise centering than self-centering chucks) with a piece of the dowel about 1.3 times the cannon barrel length protruding out of the chuck. This piece was first turned to the largest cannon diameter (image 1b). By means of a cross sled I then tapered the piece by about 1.5˚ to give it its rough "cannon" shape (image 1c). This corresponds to what you have seen in my last image sequence as image 1a). After a lot of additional processing steps the major part of the barrel was finished but still part of the original brass dowel (image 2). As a final step it was cut off the dowel, turned around and mounted again in the lathe in order to finish the work on the front end of the cannon. Please don't hesitate to ask questions if the process is not clear. In any case it is a lot of fun to make your own cannon barrels Thomas Image 1 Image 2
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    Thank you so much for all your compliments and the likes! I would love to accept your cannon orders, but unfortunately without a CNC lathe I guess I must decline Thomas
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    After getting distracted by a lot of other (mostly business related) projects I finally found some time to resume work on my Syren. Now the long gun prototypes, which I have shown on my model during the last 2 years, need to be replaced with the final versions. As there are only 2 guns I decided to make the gun barrels myself based on Chuck’s Syren plans. Images 1a – 1d show the different steps of turning one of the gun barrels. In image 2e the trunnion holes are drilled. After a “sanity check” with one of the gun carriages from the Syren kit the barrel is separated from the raw metal piece and the gun muzzle finished (img 2g). Img 3a shows the barrel with trunnions in place, the locations for the breech ring and touch-hole parts milled out, and the parts lying beside the barrel. The assembled gun barrel and Chuck’s plans are depicted in images 3b and 3c. The final result after blackening can be seen in image 4. Thomas Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Image 4
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    Great looking masts, Sal! Very nice work! Thomas
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    These are great looking guns, Bob! What wood are the gun carriages made of? I am just fiddling with the Syren long guns myself, so your current pictures are a nice help for me Thomas
  19. Gahm
    Super work, Bob! It is an absolute pleasure to follow your progress! Thomas
  20. Gahm
    Your masts are looking very good! Thomas
  21. Gahm
    Wonderful work, Bob! Thomas
  22. Gahm
    Looking really good, Sal! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thomas
  23. Gahm
    Beautifully done, Sal! It really is a pleasure to watch your Syren build! Thomas
  24. Gahm
    That looks really good! Did you also make the three iron bands at the (thick) end of the bowsprit from a brass strip or did you use the pinstripe tape for it? Thomas
  25. Gahm
    Robbyn, I hope the 2 added images may answer your question. Thomas

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