Rope walk machine

[Christership]

Anyone have tips on where to buy a good rope walk machine or a drawing of one? Have only seen half-baked attempts at constructions.

[Oldsalt1950]

Syren Ship Model Company

 

[Bob Cleek]

If you want a motorized ropewalk, Alexi Domanoff makes a good one: https://www.shipworkshop.com/  He's in Poland. No problem with shipping to the US from the EU. He provides great service and support. He has a range, from simple to complex machines.

[Hsae]

Byrnes ropewalk 

https://www.byrnesmodelmachines.com/ropewalk5.html

[europapete]

Second shout out for Alexi Dormanoff's rope machines. I have a couple and they work great 👍 Really good people to deal with too. Regards, Pete in RI

[Bill Tuttle]

Check the resources page of the Nautical Research Guild.  There is a wonderful article on building one written by Phil Krol.  I built this years ago and it turns out beautiful rope.  The motor I used was an old Enesco Dental Drill motor which you can always find on Ebay.  This is particularly good because most will reverse direction and you can control the speed with a rheostat.  Good luck.

[Gregory]

On 2/1/2023 at 9:19 PM, Hsae said:

Byrnes ropewalk 

https://www.byrnesmodelmachines.com/ropewalk5.html

From the link:

 

"The Ropewalk Machine itself is no longer available"

[Chuck Seiler]

I second Syren Ship Model Company 

[hornet]

This is mine. May give you some ideas. 

 

[DennisL]

I now make all of the rope I need using the Rocket found on the Syren Models website.  It is easy to use and there are several tutorials on YouTube to help.  I use 100 per cent cotton thread by Gutterman found on the Wawak website.  No frizzies either!