| Creating Triangle Deadeyes |
| Thursday, 30 November 2006 | |||||||||||||
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 Triangle Deadeyes “All shrouds, some backstays and stays are setup by means of deadeyes. In ancient times the deadeyes were longish in shape and looked very similar to hearts. In the Middle Ages they were of similar shape, with an opening at the top for the shroud, and three holes at the bottom for the tackle lanyard. In 15th century deadeyes were triangular and rather flat and the shroud was laid in a groove called the score round the deadeye. From the middle of the 17th century round deadeyes came into use; they were also more curved in profile.”
Fragment from Historic Ship Models by Wolfram zu Mondfeld. I do not thinkI have to convince anyone to this book.
 Deadeyes by Mondfeld Anyway, Andrzej Stefanski who builds his model of 15th century documented with pictures how to create triangular deadeyes in few simple steps! Wood stock is pear painted with linseed oil with gives deep natural colour and an old look of wood. Tools used are Dremel standard drill with attached router table, round routing cutter, old small planer, hand fret saw, sanding paper on some stock of wood. Cut out required stock or plank of wood for example 4.4x5.5mm with length of around 20-25 cm. Using hand planer round the edges and plane the wood trying to get egg or pear type shape as shown on the picture.
Using bench router table with small round cutter make a groove around new deadeye. Note that router's back fence's hole is covered by extra wooden plank to have proper stopping point. Then sand paper on wooden stock round the edges, cut off the deadeye with fret saw, round other side.
Finally drill three holes and paint ready dead eyes. It took around an hour to produce 10 such deadeyes.
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