Making your own Ropes

[kuba91nt]

I don’t understand where you got that info from.

I needed larger ropes first because I’m building large scale ship models. My current build has been on hold for 2 months because I needed good quality rope suitable.

I could have purchased from Rope of Scale. As I had been. Buts it’s costing $200 per model by the time I buy the ropes and pay freight.

I can’t afford to keep paying that per model build.

So I looked into options and have to be honest that first option you mentioned did not work for me. I can give many reasons why. I will not get into them here. Probably never will, because the PL4-4 does have a place if you want to only make smaller ropes and use the appropriate threads.

This rope walk is awesome. Does everything I need and with some practice is very easy to make great looking rope.

It’s a huge learning curve. Making rope. And I’m finally there. With the help of this awesome rope walk.

I’ll be selling the PL4-4

That's why i'm asking because you're still making thin ropes, others have successfully used and making them on the Domanoff Planetary Ropewalk. A 2-3mm rope isn't thick, it's the normal size for working with the planetary Ropewalk. 2mm is not a thick rope...

 

[Phillipsart]

First rope made with a distance of 6.2 meters between Bok and Wein.

Weight 750 grams at 10% in first wind.

Gutermann E151 3x15 1.3mm rope

Finished rope measured at 4.83 meters. Which has surprised me. I thought I would have gotten at least 5 meters.

Maybe too much weight. I will try a bit less weight tomorrow.

The rope looks great. Just need an additional 20cm

 

[Dubz Modelling World]

Don't lessen the weight. It looks good. I would even use a bit more weight though But that is a matter of taste I go from 1.75 cm to 1.45 cm approx ;-)

 

[kuba91nt]

That's the problem.
It's unclear what's going on.

You're still showing tiny ropes that don't have any problems on Domanoff's Planetary Ropewalk, and plenty of people do it, so where's the success?

This rope is 1.3mm, which is less than most 1/48 scale models use for basic rigging.