Okay. I’m a clipper ship. Built in 1846 in New York City. I’m called the Sea Witch. My crosstrees are wooden. My masts have lots of iron hardware. Do I have iron cheeks? Charles Davis does not say.
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Since most of the masthead was painted, including the cheeks, I would think in model form it wouldn’t make much difference the material, since painted wood and painted metal look so much alike unless you are modeling in a very large scale. My impression though is that in most cases the cheeks were wood.
I’d think iron checks would have a somewhat different shape. If they have the classic s-curved shape I’d think wood.
No, by any means they were not iron. Creeks were bolted to the mast wood to wood face.
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