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by Charles Davis
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ISBN: 0486251705 Dover Publications Price: $9.95 |
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Complete, step-by-step instructions for building schooners, galleons, clipper ships, more. Includes scale plans for 1846 clipper ship Sea Witch. Excellent guide for both the novice and the practiced woodworker — from the first steps in selecting proper materials to final task of painting the model. Over 150 photographs.
Table of Contents for Ship Models: How to Build Them
| PREFACE | |||||||
| "MODEL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP "SEA WITCH" Frontispiece" | |||||||
| INTRODUCTION | |||||||
| MODELS OF VESSELS: SIXTEEN PLATES ILLUSTRATING MODELS OF DIFFERENT PERIODS | |||||||
| I. TYPES OF SHIPS | |||||||
| II. KINDS OF MODELS | |||||||
| III. PREPARING THE BLOCK | |||||||
| IV. THE DECK | |||||||
| V. THE HULL | |||||||
| VI. THE RUDDER AND TRANSOM | |||||||
| VII. THE DECK FURNITURE | |||||||
| VIII. THE ANCHORS | |||||||
| IX. "BITT-HEADS, CHANNELS, DEADEYES, ETC." | |||||||
| X. THE SPARS | |||||||
| XI. TOOLS FOR MODEL MAKING | |||||||
| XII. GLOSSARY | |||||||
| "BELAYING PIN LAYOUT ON THE "SEA WITCH" | |||||||
| "TABLE OF OFFSETS FOR THE "SEA WITCH" | |||||||
| INDEX | |||||||
| "WORKING PLANS FOR A MODEL OF THE CLIPPER SHIP "SEA WITCH," In pocket on the inside of the back cover" |