USS Constitution 1:70 Scratch

GrantTyler · Thursday at 10:13 PM

mtbediz1 said:
Dear friends, thank you so much for the likes and nice comments.

I am fabricating the triple and double blocks for the stays with tackle.

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Wow Mustafa. So realistic. Throw a little rope on your channel and we wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from the real ship to your replica. Cheers Grant

Peter Gutterman · Friday at 11:39 AM

All of the above. Proper words fail me. Masterful! Thumbsup

mtbediz1 · Saturday at 5:09 PM

I mounted the tackle equipped stay on the port side of the main mast. By the way, I call this rope a stay, but I'm not sure if that's the correct name.

mtbediz1 · Monday at 8:59 AM

All the lower mast shrouds and mast tackles are complete. I used 1mm rope for the shrouds and 0.3mm rope for the lanyards. The next task will be making the main stays.

dockattner · Monday at 9:20 AM

Brilliant! Everything looks really cool in black!

mtbediz1 · Monday at 10:26 PM

dockattner said:
Brilliant! Everything looks really cool in black!

Thank you so much Paul!

Jack Jäger · Monday at 11:22 PM

Looks very good Mustafa you have really captured 'Old Ironsides'.

All the best Jack.

mtbediz1 · Monday at 11:45 PM

Jack Jäger said:
Looks very good Mustafa you have really captured 'Old Ironsides'.

All the best Jack.

Thanks, Jack. Having countless pictures of the ship online is really helpful.

Kurt Konrath · 2025-12-23T00:14:30-0600

Love the work and evenness' of all the shroud lines.

mtbediz1 · 2025-12-23T12:38:55-0600

Kurt Konrath said:
Love the work and evenness' of all the shroud lines.

Thank you Kurt.

mtbediz1 · 2025-12-24T09:30:19-0600

I prepared the main stays. To make the mice, I first drilled a 1.5 mm hole through the center of a 5 mm diameter dowel, then turned the dowel on my lathe. After that, I threaded a 1.2 mm rope through the hole in the mouse and seized it using my seizing machine. Next, I attached the 5mm bulleyes I had made to the ends of the ropes and connected the lanyards to the bulleyes.