Re: [bolger] Re: Handmade Blocks?
Unlike ferrous metals, hot copper isn't easier to form. What you do is heat
the copper red hot, then drop it into a bucket of water. This softens the
copper so you can form it, but it will harden again as you bang on it, so
you repeat the "annealing" often while working with it.
Here's a good article on making blocks out of plywood (not as strange as it
seems if you stop and think about it):
http://catalog.com/bobpone/plywoodblocks.htm
the copper red hot, then drop it into a bucket of water. This softens the
copper so you can form it, but it will harden again as you bang on it, so
you repeat the "annealing" often while working with it.
Here's a good article on making blocks out of plywood (not as strange as it
seems if you stop and think about it):
http://catalog.com/bobpone/plywoodblocks.htm
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 23:58:28 -0000, dickb_bolger wrote:
> ...
> About the only thimble you'll be able to buy will be the
> tear-shaped ones. But some builders have done this: cut about 1" off
> a 3/4" dia. copper pipe, set in on peen end of hammer (in vise), heat
> it, set another peen atop and whack the flat end of that hammer until
> (I think this'll take a few hands maybe with visegrips?) a thimble
> sort of emerges at which time it is "handcraft" time to shape it.
> One reported using these for some time on a 40' ketch and nothing
> amiss yet. Yet another solution for the thimble would be none and a
> seized and wrapped rope.
> ...
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--- dickb_bolger wrote:
These are going to look sooooo nice on my scooner!
Thanks!
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> The site I've most enjoyed is this:<http://tinyurl.com/u8p9>http://tinyurl.com/u8p9
These are going to look sooooo nice on my scooner!
Thanks!
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--- dickb_bolger wrote:
I tried the method and yes,
it works great. More than
a few sheeves and blocks
on Micro Navigator, and I
am making them all this way.
> The site I've most enjoyed is this:http://tinyurl.com/u8p9
I tried the method and yes,
it works great. More than
a few sheeves and blocks
on Micro Navigator, and I
am making them all this way.
The site I've most enjoyed is this:
www.duckworksmagazine.com/articles/woodenblocks/ I'm not talented at
siting websites, but I'm hopeful you get the general directions.
Beyond that there's Hervey Garret Smith's books that have details as
well as Brion Toss's latest book on rigging. Moreover (ahem!)
there's a nifty piece somewhere that I picked up on the issue of
thimbles. About the only thimble you'll be able to buy will be the
tear-shaped ones. But some builders have done this: cut about 1" off
a 3/4" dia. copper pipe, set in on peen end of hammer (in vise), heat
it, set another peen atop and whack the flat end of that hammer until
(I think this'll take a few hands maybe with visegrips?) a thimble
sort of emerges at which time it is "handcraft" time to shape it.
One reported using these for some time on a 40' ketch and nothing
amiss yet. Yet another solution for the thimble would be none and a
seized and wrapped rope.
www.duckworksmagazine.com/articles/woodenblocks/ I'm not talented at
siting websites, but I'm hopeful you get the general directions.
Beyond that there's Hervey Garret Smith's books that have details as
well as Brion Toss's latest book on rigging. Moreover (ahem!)
there's a nifty piece somewhere that I picked up on the issue of
thimbles. About the only thimble you'll be able to buy will be the
tear-shaped ones. But some builders have done this: cut about 1" off
a 3/4" dia. copper pipe, set in on peen end of hammer (in vise), heat
it, set another peen atop and whack the flat end of that hammer until
(I think this'll take a few hands maybe with visegrips?) a thimble
sort of emerges at which time it is "handcraft" time to shape it.
One reported using these for some time on a 40' ketch and nothing
amiss yet. Yet another solution for the thimble would be none and a
seized and wrapped rope.
--- Inbolger@yahoogroups.com, David Ryan <david@c...> wrote:
> FBBB,
>
> A while ago someone posted a link to a nice article on making your
> own blocks. I'd like to replace the odd collection of stolen
hardware
> on the LSME with some nice homemade blocks (but I think I'll be
> pre-made shives.) I thought I bookmarked the link, but can't seem
to
> find it.
>
> Help?
>
> YIBB,
>
> David
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>
> C.E.P.
> 415 W.46th Street
> New York, New York 10036
>http://www.crumblingempire.com
> Mobile (646) 325-8325
> Office (212) 247-0296
Stolen Hardware, thats brave admitting that!
David Ryan <david@...> wrote:FBBB,
A while ago someone posted a link to a nice article on making your
own blocks. I'd like to replace the odd collection of stolen hardware
on the LSME with some nice homemade blocks (but I think I'll be
pre-made shives.(Thieves ?)) I thought I bookmarked the link, but can't seem to
find it.
Help?
YIBB,
David
--
C.E.P.
415 W.46th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.crumblingempire.com
Mobile (646) 325-8325
Office (212) 247-0296
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David Ryan <david@...> wrote:FBBB,
A while ago someone posted a link to a nice article on making your
own blocks. I'd like to replace the odd collection of stolen hardware
on the LSME with some nice homemade blocks (but I think I'll be
pre-made shives.(Thieves ?)) I thought I bookmarked the link, but can't seem to
find it.
Help?
YIBB,
David
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C.E.P.
415 W.46th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.crumblingempire.com
Mobile (646) 325-8325
Office (212) 247-0296
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FBBB,
A while ago someone posted a link to a nice article on making your
own blocks. I'd like to replace the odd collection of stolen hardware
on the LSME with some nice homemade blocks (but I think I'll be
pre-made shives.) I thought I bookmarked the link, but can't seem to
find it.
Help?
YIBB,
David
--
C.E.P.
415 W.46th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.crumblingempire.com
Mobile (646) 325-8325
Office (212) 247-0296
A while ago someone posted a link to a nice article on making your
own blocks. I'd like to replace the odd collection of stolen hardware
on the LSME with some nice homemade blocks (but I think I'll be
pre-made shives.) I thought I bookmarked the link, but can't seem to
find it.
Help?
YIBB,
David
--
C.E.P.
415 W.46th Street
New York, New York 10036
http://www.crumblingempire.com
Mobile (646) 325-8325
Office (212) 247-0296