My masterpiece woodwork -- Levant Schooner

Many thanks to all for an assessment of my work! It is very good!

Boatbuilding at full scale is the most complicated branch of woodworking
- nothing flat, no square corners, tight angles. Trying to do a scaled
version must be even more challenging - just hell finding tiny slicks
would be task,

Even more impressive are the knots!

Got an estimate of the time you put into this one?

charlie b

Alexander Blokhin wrote:

> http://modelshipsworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/levant-schooner_11.html
>
> Please see & enjoy!

That is very neat. How long do such models take to construct?

--
If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough

Alexander Blokhin wrote:
> http://modelshipsworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/levant-schooner_11.html
>
> Please see & enjoy!

Very nice work and incredible detail!

It's too nice to try, but do you think it would actually float? Looks
like it would.

Jason Buckler
Marietta, GA

On Jun 11, 10:28 am, Alexander Blokhin <[email protected]>
wrote:
> http://modelshipsworld.blogspot.com/2008/06/levant-schooner_11.html
>
> Please see & enjoy!

Nice work. You should burn off the stray fibers on your rigging with
a lighter - they destroy the scale illusion in the closeup
photographs,

R

charlieb <[email protected]> wrote:

> Boatbuilding at full scale is the most complicated branch of woodworking
> - nothing flat, no square corners, tight angles. Trying to do a scaled
> version must be even more challenging - just hell finding tiny slicks
> would be task,

You can buy scale lumber. Here's one source:

<http://www.northeasternscalelumber.com/>

What you can't buy can be made using appropriate tools such as these:

<http://www.byrnesmodelmachines.com/>