These failed because I could not separate them from their brass tube cores.

Wrapping masking tape sticky side out allowed the coil to separate from the core.

From many years ago I remembered rope coils bound by loops of small rope.

This photo shows rope coils bound in exactly that manner. Gary Kohler sent me this photo.

I took this photo when I visited the site.

This is what the same end of my model looks like today.

I've been using a craft cutter since the very beginning of this project.

I found the craft cutter does a good job cutting out hundreds of rafter parts from sheet stock.

A tea strainer is a good way to pre-stain those hundreds of rafter parts.

I built an assembly jig for each bit of framing in the building. Here is one of the rafter styles in process.

I used my craft cutter to scribe framing layouts onto 0.040" and 0.060" polystyrene sheets upon which I laid up my assembly jigs.

An ingesting feature here us the diagonal braces were added to the rafter assemblies and are not part of the building frame. They were sanded to a snug fit.

Seen here are numerous premeasured coils of standing and running rigging stored temporarily before being hauled tot he shipyard.