capnharv2 Posted January 9 Share #1 Posted January 9 In several kit build logs and model reviews, I've read how awful some of the kit-supplied rigging line is. And, I'm thankful we have companies here that provide excellent quality rigging line to replace the bad stuff with. My question, though, is, what does everybody do with their old, crappy rigging line? The stuff that you'll never find a use for. I don't have an answer. The stuff just accumulates with almost every kit I buy. I don't want to just throw it out. I've seen what fish netting can do to wildlife and wouldn't want to let that happen. I guess I could burn it in the fireplace. . . I've heard people say, "Oh, just keep it. You'll find a use for it someday". I've got about 40 years' worth of "somedays" stored up to use, and it's not getting used. Just curious. Thanks for letting me whine . . . Harvey AJohnson, mtaylor and Keith Black 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Ensign Posted January 9 Share #2 Posted January 9 Mine just builds up, I could open a shop selling Amati and other kit line. 3205 I never use black thread in my builds, and kit provided thread rarely if ever provides sufficient sizes for proper scale rigging. These days I only use Syren, and Morope for very fine lines, useful for seizings. B.E. AJohnson, Keith Black, mtaylor and 1 other 4 Quote Current Build: HMS Indefatigable-1794-by-blue-ensign-vanguard-models-164-scale Medway-longboat-1742-by-blue-ensign-½”-scale Completed builds: HMS Sphinx 1775 by Blue Ensign. 1:64 scale - Vanguard Models Queen-Anne-Royal-Barge-circa-1700-by-Blue-Ensign Fifie fishing boat Lady Eleanor Muirneag-1903-–-a-scottish-zulu-fishing-boat-164-scale-based-on-the-vanguard-models-zulu-kit/ HM Cutter Alert 1777 HM Cutter Cheerful 1806 18th-century-English-longboat-by-Blue-Ensign-ms-148-scale/ finished 18thc English Pinnace by Blue Ensign-Model-Shipways-1:24 scale/ finished HMS-Pegasus-by-Blue-Ensign-finished-Victory-Models-1:64-scale/ Heller Seventy-four 1:150 scale - modified Le Superbe/Le Glorieux kit after Boudriot, waterline setting with sails. The schooner Pickle, Jotika pob kit 1:64 scale, my interpretation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wefalck Posted January 9 Share #3 Posted January 9 The most radical solution would be to stop buying kits 😉 Otherwise, it might be possible to turn the 'threads' supplied by kit manufacturers into 'rope' using a (home-made) ropewalk ... Keith Black, Roger Pellett, Bob Cleek and 1 other 4 Quote wefalck panta rhei - Everything is in flux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veszett Roka Posted January 9 Share #4 Posted January 9 I did this (thanks for Heller): mtaylor and Keith Black 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Ruy Posted January 9 Share #5 Posted January 9 (edited) eBay? You have a lot of less discerning builders out there. They would buy it up at half the price of the good stuff. I would if I didn’t have boxes full my self. 👍 Edited January 9 by John Ruy Roger Pellett, Bob Cleek, mtaylor and 2 others 5 Quote Gallery Photos of My Charles W Morgan Currently working on New Bedford Whale Boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wefalck Posted January 9 Share #6 Posted January 9 Shouldn't we rather promote the 'good' stuff or the making of it ? allanyed, mtaylor, John Ruy and 4 others 7 Quote wefalck panta rhei - Everything is in flux Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veszett Roka Posted January 10 Share #7 Posted January 10 16 hours ago, wefalck said: Shouldn't we rather promote the 'good' stuff or the making of it ? We're continously doing that in different topics. Anyway, our local modeler club has regular market weekends, where all your surplus stuff could be sell or donate to others. The threads which is not suitable for you could be fine for other modelers, and not just shipmodelers: those market weekends (called boerse) often visited by diorama makers looking for photoetch rails, threads, chains etc. because they would urgently need only 10cm of chain, and they could pick it up from the 'garbage' boxes. Keith Black, John Ruy and mtaylor 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allanyed Posted January 10 Share #8 Posted January 10 On 1/9/2024 at 3:20 AM, capnharv2 said: I've seen what fish netting can do to wildlife and wouldn't want to let that happen. I guess I could burn it in the fireplace. . . I would run a razor over as much as possible so there are only small pieces. I got in the habit of cutting fishing line as well as the rings on plastic six pack rings for soda and beer when garbage was hauled on barges back in the day and still do it to this day just in case. Turtles supposedly see the clear plastic as jelly fish and get hung up or choke on the stuff if it winds up in the water. Allan oakheart, capnharv2, mtaylor and 2 others 4 1 Quote PLEASE take 30 SECONDS and sign up for the epic Nelson/Trafalgar project if you would like to see it made into a TV series. Click on http://trafalgar.tv There is no cost other than the 30 seconds of your time. THANK YOU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerome Posted January 10 Share #9 Posted January 10 If it’s really crappy line I would toss it. or perhaps a resale shop could find a use for it. some crafter might be able to use it. Keith Black and mtaylor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnharv2 Posted January 23 Author Share #10 Posted January 23 On 1/9/2024 at 3:19 AM, wefalck said: The most radical solution would be to stop buying kits 😉 Otherwise, it might be possible to turn the 'threads' supplied by kit manufacturers into 'rope' using a (home-made) ropewalk ... I wish! I stopped buying kits 15-20 years ago. Nowdays, I get notes from families whose ship modelling father/grandfather/brother/etc have passed away, and they send me leftover rigging line ("string", as they call it) I get leftover ship model wood too (anybody want some 1" x 6" x 6' basswood?). At least I can find a use for wood. . . Keith Black 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnharv2 Posted January 23 Author Share #11 Posted January 23 On 1/10/2024 at 6:03 AM, jerome said: If it’s really crappy line I would toss it. or perhaps a resale shop could find a use for it. some crafter might be able to use it. I have a lot of old, used rigging line (for the real sailboat) lying around the house too. It's been suggested that I learn to make rope fenders and bow pudding. . . . Keith Black, bridgman and Bob Cleek 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul ron Posted January 24 Share #12 Posted January 24 im sure that line can be used by crafters. i can find a thousand uses for it... send it all to me, my grand kids would have a ball sewing clothes for their dolls and making macramey with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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