Rigging tutorials

[bigcreekdad]

Rigging always gives me fits. One area I find myself re-doing the most frequently is getting the deadeyes even when attaching to the shrouds. Any tutorials to refer to re" this?

[Gregory]

Many use a jig of some sort.  Often it is a stiff wire between the deadeyes.

 

I can’t post a link right now, but if you look at #66 in my Resolution log, you will see the jig I used.

If the construction isn’t apparent, I will try to clarify later.

[dvm27]

Here's a jig that can be made out of heavy card or aircraft ply. It's not my design but solves the spacing problem between the deadeyes.

 

[druxey]

While the jig solves one problem, it creates another - that of making the throat and end seizings 'in the air'.

 

I use a jig simply to mark the underside of the line where it wraps around the deadeye. After removing the shroud or shroud pair, I can hold things using third hands while applying the seizings. Then I pop a deadeye into the bight (the line has sufficient stretch to do this) and reinstall the shroud over the masthead.

[Gregory]

For a second there Greg, I thought you looked at my jig and made a drawing of it..😁

 

I must have seen yours at some point and used the design.

 

P.S.

Here is the link I couldn't post earlier.

 

Edited 18 hours ago by Gregory

[Dan Poirier]

I'm just getting to this point in my Sherbourne build, and a part of me wonders if real life ships always had their deadeyes all lined up 🙂

[popeye2sea]

Shrouds were well stretched while preparing them for serving in the riggers loft, so I don't know if there would be a lot of movement in them after they are set up on the ship.

 

Regards,

 

Henry

[Thanasis]

Hi. I follow the  procedure where the upper deadyes are already attached on the edge of a shroud  

but the seizing knots are slidable. So I have the ability to align all of them.

See there 

"A way of seizing (my way)"

Thx

[wefalck]

5 hours ago, Dan Poirier said:

I'm just getting to this point in my Sherbourne build, and a part of me wonders if real life ships always had their deadeyes all lined up 🙂

I gather this is always the dilemma: in real life, things were not always as neat as one may wish, particularly in the merchant navy with few crew; then on the other hand, if one reproduces it on a model, it may look like shoddy workmanship ...