Sunday, March 30, 2008

It was freezing cold this morning. I went out in the garage for a few minutes, ran the leeboard & rudder pieces through the table saw to make them exactly the correct width and then came back into the house.
I finished gluing up the temporary form using Titebond III and then did some stuff with [...]

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Today was mostly a clean-up day. I did a bit of work. I framed the temporary form using 1X4 spruce that I cut into 1 1/2 wide pieces. I screwed the pieces to the form using some brass screws I’ve had for about ten years. I am going to take it apart and glue the [...]

Wednesday March 26, 2008

Tonight I finished drawing out the remaining pieces to be cut from the 1/2 plywood and I cut them all out just roughly. I still have a lot of work to get them to size. Then I cut out the bottom to within 1/4 to 1/2 inch from the edges. It feels great to have [...]

Tuesday March 25th

Decided to lay out the leeboards and rudder blades differently from the plans so that I would have more waste between the bottom and the leeboard pieces on the 1/2″ plywood. Due to the splintering and my less than steady cutting with the jigsaw I decided to do this. I asked Chuck Leinweber a couple [...]

Monday, March 24, 2008

Cut out temporary Form 8…can’t remember what else as I have let posting go for three days. I didn’t spend too much time working as I was at the office until late. Cleaned up and reorganized.
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Sunday March 23rd, 2008

Got quite a bit more accomplished today. I cut out the bilge panel and side panel from two sheets of 1/4″ and the transom from a sheet of 1/2″. I used the jigsaw for the bilge and side and then the handplanes to bring things down to the lines. I love those handplanes! In addition [...]

Saturday, March 22/08

I found a finer blade my jigsaw tonight and it was much better. Not as good as my Japanese
saw but much better!
Got all my bulkheads cut out and laid out one side panel and bilge panel tonight. I bought a flexible piece of hemlock molding this morning to use as a batten. I set [...]

First Bulkheads Cut Out

After putting in a long day at work getting my last partnership ready for tax filing I was ready to come home and mess about in the garage. I decided it was time to do some plywood cutting. I hauled up one piece of 1/4″ that I had marked out bulkhead 11 and 4.5 on. [...]

Japanese saw

I picked up a Japanese hand saw the other day from Lee Valley. I tried it out last night just cutting some scrap 2 x 4’s. What a great little saw! Very smooth cut face and easy to cut straight, better than I usually manage with a standard hand saw. Don’t know how much I’ll [...]

Sawhorses Finished

And what sawhorses they are! lol
Good project for me to get used to using tools, measuring, etc and they will be very handy for building Ladybug.
I did learn a few things: I don’t like the jigsaw for cutting bevels. I found the blade angle changed during the cut or the blade deflected. I [...]