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Tapered Yardarms
If you are a paper pureist then forget this but for those kits that don't provide yardarms like digital Navy, here is a suggestion.
Take a common cooking skewer and cut to length. Mark midpoint and insert in a power drill to the center and tighten, turn on. Take some rough sandpaper sandwich it between two pieces and begin sanding until the taper is what you want. Reverse and do the other side. Walla! a perfect yardarm. It is quick too. The skewers are strong enough to not break during the process. Dowels would also work but they can break when working with really small ones.
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