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The Nautical Research Guild's Ship Modeler's Shop Notes is a popular and insightful book which discusses the construction of ship models in numerous articles written by marine historians and ship model builders.

Edited by Merit Edson and assisted by Ben Lankford, Edward Mueller and Norman Rubin, it is a compilation of shop notes and articles from out-of-print material from Nautical Research Journals. This book has been a standard for ship model building in the states, and is highly acclaimed by professionals and beginners alike.

The articles are by notables such as Howard Chapelle, Harold M. Hahn, Michael Costagliola, Ben Lankford, Merritt Edson, Dana McCalip, and many others. There are nearly 170 articles, 9 plans of hull lines and many drawings contained in 216 pages.

Topics include:

RESEARCH
TOOLS
MATERIALS
PROCESSES
HULL CONSTRUCTION
DETAILS & FITTINGS
FINISHES
RIGGING

The articles contained in the book come from some of the most talented shipmodelers in the states.
Shipmodeler's Shopnotes is a compilation of articles from Nautical Research Journal over the years. Contains articles about choosing a model, tools, workshop setups, hull construction, wood selection, masting, rigging, block making, color schemes, small boats & fittings.

The book is available in two versions, ring or hard bound.