SPERWER by KORTES - FINISHED - 1:30 scale - Friescheboeier Yacht

[KORTES]

 

In the period of going from carpentry to rigging work  - I built  a stand, while it's still easy to manipulate the hull. 

[KeithAug]

A really pretty little tub - excellent work.

[KORTES]

Dear Keith, thank you very much.

[KORTES]

Before starting to work on the rigging, I had to make some preparatives, for example temporary dust prtoction.

[KORTES]

Greetings my dear colleagues,

Let me please present some of the results of my experiments on making the sails. I have tried two technologies, one  by Shevelev, which I already used while working on the "La Jacinthe",  and the other one by Bikov. After the studying the results, I opted for using the last one. I have been practicing on making the mainsail.

Edited March 24, 2019 by KORTES

[KORTES]

The first version is glued.

 

Edited March 26, 2019 by KORTES

[KORTES]

The second version.

I had to redo it several times. The first time the material wasnt right - when I madeeverything and dyed it, the batiste turned out to be too transparent. I had to redo using a more dense one.

[KORTES]

Once the cloth is ready, it's all down the hill from there.

The boltrope was glued.

[KORTES]

The perfoartion was made with the re'sharpened medical needle.

[KORTES]

 

Test assembling.

[KeithAug]

Kortes

 

Please tell me more about your sail cloth. Did you pull threads out of the material and then weave in thicker treads to create the impression of seams?

[KORTES]

Greetings  Keith. Taking into the consideration the gained experience, the technology is the following. Mark the width of the cloth. And draw out several threads. In my case I had to pull out five threads. It depends on the width of the tread you want to put in in place of the taken out ones, and , of course of the size of the sail. We need to pull 5 threads out, leave in place 2, one of them will be used to put in place the "chief" thread, and the second will be left as a backup - in case the first one will break. If you manage to pull the thread in without tearing it, this second one will have to be pullled out.

[KORTES]

The next step. Since the threads in batiste are packless and not strong I couldn't manage to put in the threads with their help all at once. So I had to make a transit step - put in the "chief" thread, with the help of which i pulled in the pulled-in  threads.

[KORTES]

And the last step. We fix the thick thread to our "chief" thread and pull it in in place of the pulled out threads. I had to skein the pulled-in  thread, because I couldnt fing the thread of the required diameter. 

That's how I did it. 

[druxey]

Interesting and tricky technique! Thank you for sharing this, Kortes.

[michael mott]

Kortes, Thank you for the tutorial on the sail making, I really like the results.

 

Michael

[KeithAug]

Kortes - thank you - excellent - must try that.

[KORTES]

Dear colleague. I'm very glad if my experinece would be of a help.

[KORTES]

Rigging elements.

[KORTES]

Voorstag.

[KORTES]

Test assembling.

Macro-filming. As usually showed some defects, which will be eliminated before the final assembling.

[cog]

I am still looking for the minor defects. Marvelous detail as we have come to expect of you

[michael mott]

Kortes, very nice work on the rigging elements. How did you make the thimbles in the second picture?

 

Michael

[KORTES]

Thank you very much, Carl.

[KORTES]

Greetings dear Michael. Concerning the making of the thimbles. The method is not much technological, it requires a certain skill. Firstly I made rings from the wire of the required diameter. After that, i put a ring on the toothpick and using the PROXXON, with this cap, I took away the excess. All the manipulation were made using a toothpick and a ring.

[KORTES]

The ring has to be set tight on the toothpick, so it wouldnt turn around. In this case the tootpick plays a role of a "holder". In the end  the thimble may be refined with a help of broaching file. The smallest elements were made out of a wire with the 0.7 diameter.

[KeithAug]

Kortes

 

Impressive but I don't think my eyes are up to it. With a little modification I might be able to make it work on the lathe.

[wefalck]

That is some artisanal talent  👍  I also would have thought of how to do this on the lathe.

 

BTW, I had seen the 'pulling threads' somewhere before and think it gives better results than sewing on the sails. I was wondering, whether one couldn't splice the thick thread to the end of one to be pulled or to twist them together with some CA glue to make them easier to pull through, than the double thickness of the thicker thread

[michael mott]

Now that is thinking outside of the box....amazing, thank you Kortes, I would never have thought of doing it that way. Your hand is a steady one for sure.

 

Michael

[cog]

Wefalk

You might, but the CA will most probably create sharp edges or protrusions