HMS Jalouse - Caldercraft by Ted

Most of the spars in this kit are 4 mm on the plans. The kit provided one 3 mm dowel. That is not enough to build the designated parts.
However, their are four 6 mm dowels.
Caldercraft clearly substituted 6 mm dowels for the 4 mm. This makes for hours of unnecessary sanding. I'm truly disappointed in Caldercraft.
So far they have not responded to my emails on materials or missing parts.
The only response being they don't have updated plans showing that I'm using the proper contact information.
I hope that their newer kits have improved.
 
Rob444 said:
Here is a wonderful video from Olha Batchvarov showing her rigging the cannons for a ship.
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Rigging the breech rope off the ship is really a great idea as it gives room to do a clean job.

What may be of interest to some is that in the video the rigging of the breech rope has no similarity to how guns were actually rigged on English ships. The breech rope was secured to a ring bolt, not an eye bolt for the bulwarks. Until 1811 the breech rope was never secured without a knot plus the seizing after which two seizings without a knot were used. (William Congreve, An Elementary Treatise on the Mounting of Naval Ordnance). Seizings usually not tarred rope. Prior to Blomefields from Steel's The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship, following the use of thimbles, the breech rope was secured to the pommilion with a cont splice, not a loop as in the video. For this model of Jalouse though there would have probably been Blomefield guns so the rope would pass through the loop.
Allan
 
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I'm going to use the fixture I made mill the 6mm dowels down to close to 4 mm to make the bowsprit spar.
If someone has a better solution please let me know.
Is it better to use a high or low speed when milling Walnut dowels?
Happy modeling IMG20250515100137.jpg
 
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