North Carolina Oyster Sharpie by Paul Le Wol - 1/24 - from plans drawn by Thomas Pratt

[Paul Le Wol]

1 hour ago, FriedClams said:

 

What Keith said.  Simply wonderful work, Paul!

 

Gary

‘Thank you Gary. I appreciate your Comments very much!

[Paul Le Wol]

Hi Everyone, I hope you’re all ready for the holidays. Thank you so much for the Comments and Likes. I started making shackles with a jig that was made for a previous build. The vertical bit is a #59 and the horizontal bit is a #70. I think the vertical bit should have been a little smaller. The copper wire is 22 gauge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The shackle was slid onto a 1/32” piece of brass and squeezed flat. The end of a wire was squeezed flat to make it appear to be a thumb screw and soldered to the shackle.

 

 

 

 

 

I’m not sure of how many shackles, rings, and turnbuckles were used on these boats as opposed to other types so I’m just going with the minimum amount. The blocks mounted on the gaffs for the peak halliards were seized to a loop of rope and the ends of the rope were threaded through a hole that was drilled in the gaffs. The rope was long enough to be able to loop the block around the end of the gaff although it could have been threaded through the hole in the opposite direction. 
 

 

 

CA was applied at each end of the hole. The gaffs were mounted and rigged.

 

 

 

 

The windlass was finished using some spare parts from Cheerful. It’s kind of rudimentary but I ran out of spare parts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right now I’m tying off and trimming excess rope and planning the fences that run each side of the cabin. Have a great Christmas and New Year’s.

 

[JacquesCousteau]

Excellent work, this is really looking phenomenal. You may have mentioned it earlier, but did you paint the shackles, or chemically blacken them?

[Glen McGuire]

Superb metal work.  The shackles are particularly well done!  

[Keith Black]

 Great work, Paul. Thank you for sharing the way you made the shackles, I've stored that bit of information away for the future. 

[Paul Le Wol]

12 minutes ago, JacquesCousteau said:

Excellent work, this is really looking phenomenal. You may have mentioned it earlier, but did you paint the shackles, or chemically blacken them?

Thank you Jacques, I have been airbrushing them and then touching them up with a brush after they are installed. For some reason these two ended up being different colours.

 

11 minutes ago, Glen McGuire said:

Superb metal work.  The shackles are particularly well done!  

Thank you Glen, I appreciate your comments very much.

 

9 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

 Great work, Paul. Thank you for sharing the way you made the shackles, I've stored that bit of information away for the future. 

Keith, thank you very much for your nice comments!