Oh my, it's almost been a year since that black day in the shipyard when I stopped working on the Statenjacht so I think it's time to continue with the build.
Trying to remember where I was a year ago on the build was interesting. (Especially since I sometimes can't remember what I had for lunch the previous day)
Oh yes, now I remember, I was working on some of the fiddly parts.
As you well know the Dutch liked to embellish/beautify their ships with ornamentation and the Statenjacht certainly falls into that category. I guess that's one of the reasons I chose this ship.
I have Pietsan's build log on my computer and refer to it quite often. One of the items I'm working on Piet lists as a growl or growler. Not sure if that is the proper spelling so maybe Heinrich can enlighten me as to the correct name.
This is from Piet's log and shows the location.
The next step was to attempt to duplicate these. Thankfully Piet has a very comprehensive set of instructions on how to construct them.
This picture is just one of 15 showing how. It's basically a series of half hitches around a circular ring which
in this case, is a rubber O-ring of the appropriate size to match the hole in the resin piece.
This is my "Practice" piece using some waxed thread around a steel ring and my first attempt at scale.
My second attempt using the rubber O-ring. Other than my fingers being too large it isn't that difficult once you get into some sort
of rhythm. I just have to remember to alternate between one pass up the rabbit hole and the next pass down the rabbit hole.
I'll coat with diluted glue, snip off the ends and paint gold. Only 3 more to go.
Without Piets log I would certainly be at a loss on how to make these.
Trying to remember where I was a year ago on the build was interesting. (Especially since I sometimes can't remember what I had for lunch the previous day)
Oh yes, now I remember, I was working on some of the fiddly parts.
As you well know the Dutch liked to embellish/beautify their ships with ornamentation and the Statenjacht certainly falls into that category. I guess that's one of the reasons I chose this ship.
I have Pietsan's build log on my computer and refer to it quite often. One of the items I'm working on Piet lists as a growl or growler. Not sure if that is the proper spelling so maybe Heinrich can enlighten me as to the correct name.
This is from Piet's log and shows the location.
The next step was to attempt to duplicate these. Thankfully Piet has a very comprehensive set of instructions on how to construct them.
This picture is just one of 15 showing how. It's basically a series of half hitches around a circular ring which
in this case, is a rubber O-ring of the appropriate size to match the hole in the resin piece.
This is my "Practice" piece using some waxed thread around a steel ring and my first attempt at scale.
My second attempt using the rubber O-ring. Other than my fingers being too large it isn't that difficult once you get into some sort
of rhythm. I just have to remember to alternate between one pass up the rabbit hole and the next pass down the rabbit hole.
I'll coat with diluted glue, snip off the ends and paint gold. Only 3 more to go.
Without Piets log I would certainly be at a loss on how to make these.
 so I may grind a tool bit to shape and turn these from walnut. (Maybe)
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