Syren Ship Model Company News, Updates and Info.....(part 2)

[Chuck]

I am so close to having blocks...the best available in stock on my website once again.  I hope you will agree that the wait was well worth it.   It shouldnt be long...

 

I am going on vacation in a week or so but hopefully once I get back I can slowly start listing them as available.   A much needed break down to the beach with my extended family.  About 16 of us crammed into a house on the beach.

 

Thanks for your patience in waiting for these...a small batch of each size initially but then more will follow pretty quickly I hope.

 

Some sample photos.

 

 

 

 

 

[Canute]

Have fun down the shore, Chuck.

[Nirvana]

Chuck, you are teasing us to much..... I am on strict budget and now this.🙂

[dvm27]

Sixteen people in a beach house? You're going to need a vacation from your vacation!

[GGibson]

Thanks for the heads-up, Chuck!  Will begin creating my list of blocks needed for my Bluenose replacements from what was in the kit.

 

Enjoy your beach vacay! 

[scrubbyj427]

Great looking blocks! Wow! 

[reilly]

I wonder if there are any quarter inch triple blocks for the Syren project in that batch of blocks?

[Chuck]

Yes indeed there will be.

[Chuck]

I am still at the beach!!! But the store is now reopened.  All orders will be shipped on Monday. 
 

and from this deck with such a lovely view…been working on one of the new designs.  There is only so much UNO you can play with the family in one week!!

 

So a little design work on that Hudson River Sloop project seemed interesting while checking the crab traps every so often.  A little Jimmy Buffet and some libations.

 

 

 

 

[Mark P]

No boats at the jetty? Or are they all filled up with the other 15 and sailed away to give you a bit of peace?

 

Looks like a nice place for a bit of sailing. Interestingly, the sea is exactly the same colour as that which I was looking at here in England off our East coast at the weekend.

 

Have a good break!

 

Mark P

[Nirvana]

Chuck, enjoy the remaining days at the beach. Hope you won some of Duo games...

[Chuck]

Fishing is good right off the pier.  Bluefish, blowfish, and the occasional sand shark.  Playing cards but no sailing sadly.   Lots of reading and research.
 

 

 

[Jack12477]

Is that a Hudson River sloop or Jersey coastal sloop or ??? in those vintage photos.

[Chuck]

Hudson River Sloop 

 

I am working on plans for a model of the HRS Amelia.... I have several projects going at the moment.  Models from the Mystic Museum of various HR sloops for research and design purposes.  The last photo is Portias Victorine.  

 

 

[BobG]

Those sloops are very cool ships! Beautiful lines and a wonderful, open deck.

[Chuck]

Getting close now....

 

Check my site regularly as I start to package these up later in the week.  They have a bit of sawdust on them but I get them in bulk....so some dusting off before packaging them up is in order.  
 

A huge thank you goes out to Jack for his hard work these last six or seven months helping to make these a reality.  He is a super knowledgeable guy when it comes to cnc. 

 

[GGibson]

Will start making up my shopping list!! 👍

[Kusawa2000]

 

Chuck: I noticed you have the 3mm single, double and triple blocks in the sold out listing.. will there be 4mm available sometime down the road.. just curious.. 

 

Thanks for any info

 

Mike Draper

[Chuck]

I have them all.  I just have to update the site and get them all packaged up.  This includes a new larger size of 9/32” single double and triple blocks. Some sizes are in short supply for this initial batch but I have more on the way.
 

Probably today and tomorrow I will have the packages up.  I have lots of labels to stuff i to small bags for the packaging.  That takes a while.

 

chuck

[druxey]

You need a pharmacist's pill-counting machine!

[Chuck]

I have one LOL

 

But I want cull out any bad or chipped blocks so it will be slow going.   

 

Chuck

[Vladimir_Wairoa]

wau, Hudson river sloop is just gorgeous. 

Cant wait personally. it will be cracking model to take after some clipper totrure. 

thank you for making those. Vlad

 

[Chuck]

Less than 24 hours after placing thousands (seriously thousands) of rigging blocks for sale on my site....

 

Yupp,  you guessed it.

 

Nearly sold out.

 

Will be making more but seriously this was a lot of blocks.

 

Keep checking back to see when they are restocked.  It will take a while to get fully stocked at this level of demand.  But I will do my best.

 

[Trussben]

If you build it, they will come.

[druxey]

That is ridiculous! There can't be so many models being rigged simultaneously! It must be hoarders trying to corner the market....

[Chuck]

Its crazy stuff…i cant fathom it.

 

chuck

[Gregory]

Besides being very high quality, your blocks are very competitively priced.   Any chance they are being re-sold?

[Loracs]

Good evening, a quick question...  are you planning to release pearwood blocks later on?  just checking up, nothing urgent.

[gjdale]

8 hours ago, Gregory said:

Any chance they are being re-sold?

 

That was my thought too. I hope that is not the case though.

[Chuck]

I really dont know if they are being resold.  
 

yes I hope to also have pearwood blocks but first I have to get it so I am fully stocked with boxwood.  
 

So it will be a while before I have those.  The two on the right are a test in pear.  The second one is a different mystery wood that I liked and tested.  Its a beautiful lighter brown color.  The first is boxwood.

 

 

Chuck