soleil royal build

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started the rigging on the bowsprit mast , photo's not to good , can only use my phone , might take some more in the morning" />

see if this is a bit clearer" />

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Steve,

Nice rigging work. What kind of line are you using and are those ModelExpo blocks?

Also, you really did some nice graining on the bowsprit.

Steve

thank's docidle , the line is from syren , it is very nice line to use , also very expensive , when you convert to aus dollar's and add postage , the block's are from caldercraft . I learn't something though when I wood effect a ship , to do it all together , as a lot of my wood work's are slightly different to each other . I'm having fun though , especially watching dave , kpnuts  , and now don's build's . if I don't learn anything from those 3 , there's something wrong

" />I was told to try cuticle clipper's for cutting line after gluing , never seen this type before . boy do they get up close and personal , I think it was gmorrison , if so thankyou.

They're easy to find. You can pick one up at any drugstore; I've often seen them in little bins by the cash register. They usually cost less than $1.00. There's also a larger version, made for trimming toes.

Another use: trimming soft wire to a square end. Regular side-cutters leafe an angled end; nail trimmers don't.

Mine looks like this:

I paid about $ 5.00 for it. The jaws are straight side cutters. It works better when there is dried glue in the thread, perfect for the little nubs left after cutting the tail from a knot with sharp scissors.

sorry bigjake , no brand name . they must be the cheap kind . I just{ borrowed } them from my wife .

Big Jake,

Look here: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?poi=&adpos=1s4&ul_noapp=true&geo_id=10232&MT_ID=70&crlp=91551307467_877&keyword=cuticle+nippers&rlsatarget=kwd-91003736&_nkw=cuticle+nippers&device=c&crdt=0&treatment_id=7&clk_rvr_id=984276600614

Mike

my line has finally arrived , sorry jake I'll put them straight back lol" />

phew !" />, one lot of shroud's in

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Hey Steve--it looks good!

I tried davidk's trick with the paperclip's , with the 3 deadeye's on the right . not only was it a lot easier to do , but somehow I managed to be neater , thank's dave . the only trouble now is I am close to finishing the 7mm deadeye's  and I know I should redo them , but I'm nearly finished , sigh !!" />

This is my third and final attempt to reply to posts, I think you're doing a great job of this (hopefully you will get this, if not I've been banned and can no longer even show my appreciation of others builds)

thank's kpnuts , I hope it never comes to that , I'm loving your build too . please keep posting ,

steve5

Sorry mate no more posts on my builds, will continue to post on other builds,  but no more on mine, I don't want to post on a site where I'm thought of as a liar.

I would like to ask prof jtilley a question please , I am thinking of adding full sail's , if I do the yards are to be raised to their highest position's , is that correct sir ,

steve

I am not the Professor,

But, yes, the yards are raised up under sail.

Note, too, that the lifts--the lines spanning from mast to yardarms go slack when this is done.  Typically, they hang slack abaft of the yard.

If you want to rivet-count, the sling, haliyard, & jeer tackles ought to have great puddles of line where those have been hauled in.

thank's captmac82 , I think I get your drift ,

Great work on your deadeyes and shrouds Steve. Very clean and taut. What line are you using. I think I missed it earlier in the thread.

Steve

The short answer to steve5's question is - yes.

The trick lies in figuring out what "their highest positions" are. A number of fittings stop the yards from being hauled up right under the crosstrees. There's a "swelling" of the lower masts and topmasts a few feet below the tops (in the case of the lower yards) or topmast crosstrees (in the case of the topgallant yards). 

The lower yards and spritsail yard don't change positions when the sails are furled.

The topgallant yards and the spritsail topsail yard get hauled up just below the points where the shroud and stay collars are secured.

The lateen mizzen yard gets hoisted up a few feet below the square-rigged crossjack yard (which doesn't have a sail on it). The lateen yard is carried inside the lower shrouds.

I have to disagree, respectfully, with CapnMac on the subject of lifts. The lines he describes are "standing lifts," which came into use in the latter part of the nineteenth century. They were part of the standing rigging. In the seventeenth century the lifts were running gear, running through blocks to be belayed on deck. Quite a few old master paintings from the period show ships with their yards cocked at an angle.

I always recommend that anybody taking on a model like this get hold of a copy of R.C. Anderson's book, The Rigging of Ships In the Days of the Spritsail Topmast. It's an old classic, but just as useful now as it was in the 'twenties. And it's cheap. You can pick up a used paperback copy (try www.bookfinder.com) for practically nothing. I just found one for $5.00, including US shipping. (I'm sure shipping to Australia would cost more, but not too much.)

Hope that helps a little.

thankyou jtilley , I appreciate you response , I have downloaded andersen's book , unfortunately , I'm just having a little trouble deciphering it . pity it wasn't written more like lannart petersen's book , more pictorial , I'll keep trying though ,

to docidle , steve I'm using syren line ,it look's great , I find I'm having to put a little glue on the end's after cutting , as it tend's to start unraveling . I pinched davidk's line size  , he is using for his build , hope he dosen't mind . 1.14mm for the shroud's , .45mm for the lanyard's , .20mm for the ratlines .

steve....

this idea of dave's has made tying deadeye's , so easy , the trouble I went through before trying to tie these little sucker's ." />

Oops, sorrry about that.

Had been helping a buddy, by email no less, decipher HECPOB destructions.

Which included nifty things like showing lifts running from yard arm to mast head with the yards hoisted (sans sails).

I should not have conflating that, er, abomination of a kit with your excellent build.