Downeaster Yachts.com - Topic: Hand made blocks http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/hand-made-blocks Simple:Press Version 5.6.7 Scott Carle on Hand made blocks http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/hand-made-blocks#p1079 Sails and Rigging- Standing and Running http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/hand-made-blocks#p1079 Hah.... lol.. I just saw that a couple days ago and copied the entire article and all pictures to my hard drive for use later.. 🙂 Pretty cool huh 🙂

It is almost as easy or maybe easier to build stainless blocks with the wood cheeks on them like the ones that came on many of our boats. You just take a length of stainless flatbar and bend it into a U shape.  Insert block and pin and then cover the outsides with wood 🙂

 

I will have to find some pictures of how it is done sometime. I have heard it described many times. even how to turn your own sheaves out of delrin or nylon blocks.

]]> Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:06:23 -0400 Jonathan Oasis on Hand made blocks http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/hand-made-blocks#p1073 Sails and Rigging- Standing and Running http://downeasteryachts.com/forums/sails-and-rigging-standing-and-running/hand-made-blocks#p1073 Ran across this beautiful how-to on making amazing wooden blocks.

 

http://www.duckworksmagazine.c.....blocks.htm

 

Rope Stropped Blocks
by Derek Waters  dgw@direct.ca  Block with thimbleImage Enlarger

Building a small gaff-rigged yawl, we needed lots of blocks. I was able to find good ones, or cheap ones. Cost was an incentive, but the 'plasticy' look of the commercial products was as big a factor for me.

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