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. |
Sleepers fitted. |
With the sleepers 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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Bowsprit bees.
1/17/2011 |
Bowsprit bees drilled for pinning & jib-boom heel chock installed.
1/20/2011 |
Flying jib-boom.
1/22/11 |
Flying jib-boom heel strap on cap.
1/24/11 |
Front of bowsprit cap.
1/25/11 |
Bowsprit primed. |
Headsails set. |
Copper banding on caps. |
Making a Wythe.
1/31/11 |
The Flying jib-boom iron (wythe). |
Banding for jib-boom heel and bob-stays. |
Dolphin Striker.
2/1/11 |
Dolphin striker, eyes for the spreaders, and the bowsprit shrouds. |
Last banding installed, bees peranently attached, sheave installed in t'gallant-stay holes.
2/4/11 |
Painted up. Spreaders hanging down and white dolphin striker.
2/5/11 |
Mast caps painted.
2/11/11 |
Painting done at tops and doublings. |
Chocks in place for trys'l masts.
2/21/11 |
pins installed in bottoms of trys'l masts.
2/22/11 |
Constellation's iron yard truss. |
Patterns glued to and cut from 1/8" aluminum plate.
2/26/11 |
Nearly complete main truss next to unstarted fore truss.
2/27/11 |
Yard bows rough cut with main bow (right) shaped.
3/04/11 |
Heating the end prior to twisting it 90°. |
Ends twisted. |
Filing and shaping. |
Bent into bow shape. |
Trusses and bows:
L-R:fore, main, and rough cut mizzen. |
All three trusses and bows made.
3/5/11 |
Main truss & bow with clevis.
3/8/11 |
Eyebolts and mast band made and fitted to mast.
3/25/11 |
Another angle. |
Jig for laminating top mast cross trees.
3/27/11 |
Laminated cross trees will be stronger than cut ones. |
Fore and main cross trees made
mizzen cross trees in jig. |
Main cross trees and trestle trees put together on top mast. |
All three topmast cross trees.
4/1/11 |
Main cross trees notched and siezed to prevent splitting, and topmast caps ready to cut out.
4/2/11 |
Chain tops'l halyard through a sheave in the topmast with cross trees and cap in place. |
Bands hold yard truss to yard.
4/23/11 |
Strap for topping lift blocks. |
Step for spanker mast begun. |
Straps for topping lift blocks installed.
4/24/11 |
Top masts unship through the truss.
This should help with transport. |
Fore and mizzen trusses.
5/15/11. |
T-B:Mizzen tops'l yard, cross-jack, fore tops'l yard, fore cource, main tops'l yard. |
Eyebolts attached.
5/28/11. |
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Truss banded to yard.
5/29/11. |
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