If you did a good job the first time, you will do only better any consecutive times. Good luck!
My way of making beads out of telephone cable: I cut the brown insulation into little cylinders, burn them on wire and cool down, making beads around 1 mm in the colour of wood..
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Thanks, @Brian077 . I have learned an awful lot on this one. I still need to develop some skills with practice, but I'm quite proud of the rigging knowledge I have acquired so far.
Giving me some inspiration for sure. In your pics from the 15th I love the chair back too, but that vacuum sucks man... LOL
The other challenge is to determine between hawser and cable laid lines and the possible challenge of walking your own left hand cable laid. It seems that most commercially sold line is right hand hawser. Maybe I am wrong which would not be surprising. PT-2
You have a good looking build so far. Looking forward to your final with the rigging in place which is my greatest challenge in coordinating what to place on the deck/hull before stepping the masts while good access and working space are available. I can't find mini-riggers here to do it then. PT-2
It looks like you may do this without sails which avoids a lot of problems that I have had with my pilot boat build. I threaded the forestay sails through the stays before those were connected, along with downhauls, to the jibboom; had to thread the fore and main sails with their hoops onto the masts before stepping, and to the booms as well as tying on the upper sails to their gaff booms. All of which gets in the way of the following rigging. I will have to think about this before doing it again to not smash my thumb twice. I did serve my stays and shrouds though but have not walked all of the lines as you have for scale accuracy. Great determination and results. PT-2Peak halliards for both masts are all rigged, along with the throat halliards. As I said before I was experimenting with some different rigging methods, especially for the peak halliards. Close ups of both methods are shown here.
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Peak and throat halliards and the boom topping lift all set. Decided to go with a single topping lift on the main.View attachment 157907
Going back to look again it looks like your grates on the deck are very well done. Those are something that I can't get straight in my head how to produce. I also noticed your Serve-O behind the backdrop. I tricked my own with pushpins on the right turning arms for easier turning and added a wooden extension with a slot to guide long served stays/shrouds to two wooden spools where the nails are placed on the left. Those made the use for me of stays up to 24 inches long feasible without separating the serving on the line by bending it too sharply around those little nails. Your ship overall will turn out great. Rich (PT-2)
