Ships-In-Bottles: A Step-By-Step Guide to a Venerable Nautical Craft

by Don Hubbard

A thoroughly modern text on the traditional nautical art of building ships-in-bottles. Comprehensive instructions guide beginning/advanced modelers in the creation of a bottled ship. Over 150 self-explanatory photographic & line illustrations. Discusses tools, bottle selection, modeling the ship, display stands, plan creation. Loaded with helpful hints on alternative techniques, plus photography, selling, packing & shipping. Extensive bibliography. Considered the bible of ship bottling. Author founded & served as first president of the Ships-in-Bottles Association of America.

133 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1971

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[Don Gubler · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you have ever wondered exactly how it is done or better yet wanted to do it yourself, here it is.