just an update as the strips go pretty slow.



started to add strips to the other side

added a few mpre strips. using pieces of innertube to hold the wood strips tighter to the form.

Bri had friends down for the week so work has been slow

cutting beads and coves on the router table
Put the gang to work attaching the first few strips





brian adjusts the first strip which was screwed to the form. screw to be removed later

never sure what we are doing, looks a little rough but we will see if we can smooth it out later without sanding thru it. a lot more work than you would think.

trying to cut tapers (scarf joint) in the strips to make long strips. not happy with the way they are glueing together but we will keep trying

ripping strips

I had bought some cedar boards ( i thinks its cedar) from the potters house farm. random widths and lengths and was not clear but didn't have too many knots.
We tried to rip them into 5/16+ thick strips and having made a spacer for two thin kerf saw blades figured we could get two strips from every pass down the table saw. A fingerboard is used to hold the stock tight to the fence.


Even at two strips a pass seemed to take forever.

rainy weather is keeping the production slow. which means more tiger woods and call of duty. but we did manage to get the bent strips for the bow and stern glued together, one was a disaster so we re did that. We did manage to get all the glue scrubbed off ourselves in less than an hour so am proud of that.

we took one set of the glued up bow and got it attached to the strongback.

used a block and pencil to mark the centerline on it.

We ran a piece of fishline from end to end to establish centerline. Brian checks alignment and height as we screw them in.







covered for the night with a tarp, it almost looks like a canoe