Ships In Bottles: A Step By Step Guide To A Venerable Nautical Craft Hardcover – January 1, 1971

Relatively "old" (1971) but lovely book which guides you to the building of your first ship in a bottle - the gloucester schooner - and gradually moves up to more difficult projects given as plans at the very end -the schooner Yacht America, Coastal schooner, the Baltimore clipper, a brigantine, the USS Constitution and a Galleon. In total, 12 chapters:1. tools and material, 2. selecting a model to build 3. selecting and preparing the bottle 4. Shaping the hull. 5. The deck, 6. The spars and rigging, 7. The sails, 8. Placing the ship into the bottle, 9. Sealing and finishing the bottle, 10. Building a display stand, 11. preparation of plans, 12 Plans for other ship models. B/W illustrations/drawings plus B/W pictures with enough detail. I am enjoying each single page that I read. Clearly written and simple to understand.

I purposely bought this first edition to get the plans for the ships which are different than the second edition which I already owned. The main teaching example (a Gloucester fishing schooner) is in both editions and is a good first model to start with. Second edition has updated and additional information in it as well as some different models. If you only get these two books on the subject for your collection, you'll be all set.

When starting this hobby, I bought this book and found it to be a wealth of knowledge. As this is an older publication, the pictures are in Black and White, but that does not detract from the amount of information available in this book. Overall a very complete book regarding the construction of Ships in Bottle's...

Good item, enjoyed met expectations

What a great book on models and model building definitely a must own

I bought this ingot my husband he waned to begin this hobby . Ashe began to use it he found that many of the recommended products are no longer available ( so,somewhat outdated) however I think it has been dry helpful for getting started with ideas. He says he would still recommend the book!

This is an excellent book to get you started if you ever thought you'd like to make one of those "Ships-In-Bottles".It tells you how to go about it,what materials ,tools and methods as well as "secrets"that are involved.You will see they can be made with skills ranging from very simple to the utmost expertise and precision.The book shows how to construct a simple ship and gives plans for more complicated ones.This would be a great gift for anyone ,young or old,who would like to start a hobby of model building. My interests are more along the line of puzzles, and that was more what drew my attention to this book; to learn how "it was done" . The basic concept is simple ,but once understood,can be applied to as difficult model as you wish. Just in case you are interested,placing things in bottles can be taken to very unusual levels. If you want to see some real challenges ,go search under Harry Eng Impossible Bottles,and you will be amazed at some of the things he has managed to put in bottles.Golf balls,baseballs,deck of cards in its case, a pair of sissors,sneekers, rubik's cube,etc.You'll be blown away when you see a gallon jug filled with objects all much larger than the opening. And yes,even some fancy ship models.

I bought this book for my comprehensive ship-in-bottle book collection. I learned from an earlier edition of this book and now the author is my friend and mentor. I started out knowing NOTHING about this craft and nowless than 10 years later I find myself the first LADY President of the Ships-in-Bottles Association of America! This is a great book and highly recommended!

Good deal

The book provided the detail I needed. Being new to the craft, I found the illustrations, although in black and white, were helpful.