{"id":18,"date":"2007-08-20T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/block-and-tackle\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T21:04:52","slug":"block-and-tackle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/block-and-tackle\/","title":{"rendered":"Block and Tackle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blocktackle.jpg\" alt=\"Homemade Block and Tackle\" \/>My late father, Jack Voisin, made a neat block and tackle pulley assembly.\u00a0 It is completely homemade of wood and it actually works.\u00a0 He used a scroll saw, router and sander to construct all pieces.\u00a0 He\u00a0crafted the pulleys, nuts, and even the threads on the bolts, all in wood.<\/p>\n<p>The links of chain all appear to be hand-carved out of one piece of wood stock.\u00a0 However each link was individually cut on the scroll saw and rounded over, probably with a router.\u00a0 The secret he said, was\u00a0to break each link in half, join them together and then glue each link back together again.\u00a0 The hair-line fracture from breaking the link all but disappears after gluing, sanding and staining.<\/p>\n<p>His attention to detail is amazing and it shows his planning and craftsmanship.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><embed flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2FTreeTraverser%2Falbumid%2F5100884658818449025%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\" height=\"96\" width=\"144\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My late father, Jack Voisin, made a neat block and tackle pulley assembly.\u00a0 It is completely homemade of wood and it actually works.\u00a0 He used a scroll saw, router and sander to construct all pieces.\u00a0 He\u00a0crafted the pulleys, nuts, and even the threads on the bolts, all in wood. The links of chain all appear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/block-and-tackle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Block and Tackle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.iseeancestors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}