Description

SCW926 is similar in form and size to SCW187 with a length of 150mm and a width of 110mm.  This block was found complete with its strop. The strop consists of a 18mm diameter (2 ¼ inch circumference) rope, seized with a throat seizing and a round seizing, the short end is whipped. This rope is 3 strand, Z laid, each strand has 6 yarns.  The throat seizing and the round seizing are both made with a 2 ply, S laid line, about 2.5mm in diameter, the plain whipping is made with a single Z twist yarn. There was a piece of the 10-12mm diameter (1 ¼ – 1 ½ inch circumference) rope reeved through the block.

At the base of the block there is a smaller rope [SCW929], 10-12mm diameter (1 ¼ – 1 ½ inch circumference), eye spliced with 2 tucks round the larger rope to create a becket, this tail measured 590mm long, but could originally have been longer.