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It seems the Peabody Museum is the fountainhead of Essex knowledge. Perhaps they may have collected some plans that might help.

Hi, Dgraham: You are certainly going to find the information and fellowship SOS provides. But did you know there's a group of ship modelers based in Denver? We are the Rocky Mountain Shipwrights. We meet monthly at Rockler Woodworking on Colorado Blvd. For more information, you can contact me at...

Hi, Hugh: The photo shows some tools that may be unorthodox, but I've used with some success. locking tweezers to hold blocks while finishing them. Plastic dental flossing gizmos for threading blocks. Home-made u-shape for manipulating line - "u" is a needle cut off through the eye and mounted...

Ditto, The Learner. Winston, thank you for your dedication and passion concerning modeling wooden ship models. Model Ship Builder has been a great resource. I am amongst a great number of modelers who will welcome its revitalization in the near future.

George Biddlecombe's The Art of Rigging also has definitions of terms and some illustrations. The book is a Dover soft cover and mine cost $11.This book, along with the others mentioned above, may be used to cross-reference any terms. I found having two or three different definitions can clarify...

About the two Lennarth Petersonbooks on rigging: Rigging Period Ship Models illustrates rigging a three-masted square rigged ship, the other, RiggingPeriod Fore-and-Aft Craft covers a single-masted cutter, a three-masted yawl, and a two-masted top-sail schooner. It may be that the former can be...

There is another book that may be what you are looking for. What's more, as a pdf it's free to download right from Ships of Scale. Just type in Patterson's Illustrated Nautical Dictionary into the search box. https://marine-cafe.com/download/pattersons-illustrated-nautical-dictionary-unabridged

Hi, What a nice start! You're turning a $12 kit into a really serious build. But you have probably agree with me about the plans/instructions . They leave a lot to be desired. Since I’m also building the original Harvey by Artisima Latina, I was able to second-guess some things. One problem...

This may sound morbid, but as a member of a ship modeling club mostly populated by older guys who die, and whose relatives want to get rid of their tools, kits, supplies and books, I've acquired lots of duplicate and triplicate stuff because they were cheap. I've acquired 9 sets of mini files, 7...

For strip wood, I have bundled together 16 cores from aluminum foil packages and stand them up in a closet. All other types of scrap wood goes in a couple of cardboard boxes.

Jeff: Have you found a modeling cub as yet? I think whoever you join up with will cherish your membership as we at Rocky Mountain Shipwrights did. All the best to you.

There are 54 of us Rocky Mountain Shipwrights meeting once a month at the Rockler Woodworking store in Denver (only a mile-high). seems like sea water can flow in the vain of mountaineers as well as in the vails of flat-landers! Read all about us at https://rockymountainshpwrights.org, and join...

I have a 14-page instruction set for the Harvey. I can scan them and send you the files. Each page is an individual jpeg. LLet me know your email address by emailing me at martinjelsema@gmail.com.

I have three kit boxes full of strips, boards and dowels. And being something of a hoarder, I also save scraps in no particular order. Here they are ready to rumage through whenever I need something. I rarely find what I need. But I still fil up small boxes with scraps 'cause you never know

Here are samples of my mini-clamp collection. The white and the red/clear one are found in a sewing accessory store. I find the blue-handed one too hard-gripping for most modeling. I only use them for "hanging" line. I'm of the opinion that you can't have too many clamps.

I, too, use these clips - But I glue in small strips of wood of various lengths instead of the odd"handles". There are times a short one works better and some times a longer one does.

Unless you want to read them more than once, you can do as I did - borrow them from our metropolitan (Denver) library system. I borrowed them three at a time. They were sent to my local library for convenience. At least four libraries were involved. These words from a guy who would spend my...

I've built the Charles B Morgan Scientific Model without sails.. I too purchased the Model Shipways plans and found them helpful. Without sails, and because of the small scale,I only rigged halyards, hauls, clews, lifts and braces. I found 2mm single blocks, 3mm double blocks. And I also...

I also use the long tips and snip occasionally. I also find that by banging the container on the workbench a couple of times after each application, the glue will retreat into the container. That helps.