Sumpter 250's 2014 Summer Scratchbuild Continuation:

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Besides, something that small always winds up someplace under your workbench anyway...

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Then again, "insanity has its place"....sometimes. :o
Remember, I did model approximately 7,500 individually hand cut, hand applied, simulated wood shingles, for the "Boat House". compared to that, :o a couple of shackles, and shackle pins isn't a major accomplishment.
I do have to get out to the Hobby Shop and get some blackened chain. The links are used as the rings that hold the Luff of the Head sails to the fore stays. Once they are in place, I can install the Jib, and Stays'l.

Whoa, enough with that sailor talk, you lost me after, "hobby shop".....

Somehow I was under the impression you made your own chain links forged from high-grade steel.