Drawing the spars full-size. |
Cutting stock to size for foremast.
2/8/09 |
Marking angle set to mast rake. |
Marked up ready to taper.. |
Planing. |
Planing down to line. |
Tapered stick sitting in shooting board, marked for 8 siding. |
8 sided mast. |
Lower fore and lower main masts. |
All three lowers against the profile.
2/9/09 |
Main top mast being shaped. |
Can't wait to figure out making these things. |
Marking the tops'l yard's taper,
completed course yard above. |
Planing the taper. |
Roughed out bowsprit parts. |
Mizzen hounds, cross trees and trestle trees. |
Masts banded. |
Mainmasts cross-trees shaped and glued
with paper cut out of top
3/16/09. |
Masts as of 3/16/09. |
Cutting the notches for the
bands in the mast fish.
3/20/09
BTW: That blade was turning! |
Notches cut. |
Test fit. |
Perfect. |
Glued on with string clamping system. |
Foremast gets a coat of paint.
3/21/09 |
All three top masts done. |
Paint on all three lowers and new caps.
3/21/09 |
Bow sprit and job boom
3/29/09 |
Bowsprit step.
6/27/09 |
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Bowsprit step. |
Setting up to make the tops.
7/2/10 |
Piecing the top rim to use the grain.
7/3/10 |
The battens are glued to the rim. |
The aft bottom rim is glued on to help align the battens. |
Bottom rim trimmed to width. |
Sitting on the cross-trees. |
Top-cross-trees fitted. |
With the top-cross-trees attached, the short battens are glued on.
top view. |
Battens completed and trimmed - bottom view. |
With cross-trees & tresle-trees.
The top doesn't get glued to them, but held down with 4 screws |
Top view. |
Bottom rim going on.
7/4/10 |
Excess of the top rim trimmed off. |
Spokes and course yard sling hole done. |
The actual main top. |
On the mast. |
The actual main top. |
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On the mast. |
Chocks added.
7/8/10 |
Fore top started.
7/9/10 |
Mizzen cross-trees chocks installed.
7/13/10 |
Fore top nearing completion, and chocks installed in cross-trees. |
Framing the mizzen top.
7/16/10 |
First battens going on. |
Mizzen top. |
Bottom rim bent and glued on the fore and mizzen tops. |
All three tops primed. |
The three mast tops. |
Drilling the fid hole in the heel of the fore topmast
7/17/10. |
Fitting the brass tube sleeve. |
Cutting the sleeve to length. |
Roughed up the sleeve with sand paper, and CVA in place. |
The sleeves ends are flared ever so slightly. |
Rounding off the topmast heel on a vibrating sander clamped in a vise. |
Cut a fid of brass rod. |
All three topmasts fidded. |
Topmasts with some light oak stain and white paint.
7/18/10 |
Main topsail and course yards stained in ebony.
7/20/10 |
"Buddy Bear" at work
Attaching the tops to the cross-trees. |
The tops attached to the cross-trees with 4 brass screws. |
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New fore mast cap.
8/22/10 |
New main mast cap. |
New mizzen mast cap;
made from laminated aircraft ply. |
New bowsprit cap. |
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