The pieces of 1/4″ plywood that I laminated together…weren’t. I had gaps and I had to consign the piece to the scrap heap. That will teach me for trying to stretch the epoxy and not screw/clamp it together properly as I only weighted it down with a toolbox and bucket full of clamps.
I spent a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Tools’
June 24, 2008
10/195 June 18-23/2008 Leeboard
June 18, 2008
2/185 Laminate Leeboard Guide, Splitter
Today, I laminated 4 pieces of 1/4 inch scraps large enough to fabricate the upper leeboard guide from. Pretty straightforward, paint with unthickened epoxy then slightly thicken and spread on thickened epoxy before lining up and placing weight on top.
I also installed a Micro-Jig Splitter from Lee Valley on the Zero Clearance Insert on my [...]
June 18, 2008
2/183 More Stem Work
Today after work I drove down to Lee Valley and picked up a big honking router bit..a straight template bit with cutters 1 1/2″ deep to trim the gunwales at the front and back using a template.
I also drove over to Windsor Plywood and picked up what should be enough lumber for me to finish [...]
June 13, 2008
3/167 Gunwales!!!
Today I picked up a new tool from Lee Valley….carbide blade scraper, a really ugly one…but does it ever scrape! WAY better than the steel one I have been using and filing to sharpen way too often. I am sure I will get to give it a pretty good workout tomorrow after the gunwales are [...]
May 25, 2008
Friday and Saturday, May 22 & 23, 2008
6/116
Friday night I taped the remaining three seams. Following a series of e-mails with Chuck I decided to only put one layer of tape on them. The taping went fairly quickly.
Saturday morning I got up early and planed the selvage edge off the tapes. Then I put another coat of epoxy on them. Saturday [...]
May 19, 2008
It’s Coming Along!
7/104
Today I planed down all the seams, filled the gaps where I had used plastic twist ties and crawled and contortioned under the back and filled the joint between the transom, bilge panels and bottom with epoxy and then thickened epoxy.
I started early after getting a phone call from an old friend in the morning. [...]
May 18, 2008
Lots of Goop
7/97
This morning I got up fairly early and started mixing epoxy to finish off all the seams…well except for the places where the plastic ties are…those spots will get done tomorrow morning early.
It took me a lot longer than I thought it would to mix the epoxy, paint the unthickened epoxy into all the seams, [...]
May 17, 2008
The Hardest Working Tool in Boatbuilding
10/90
There is no doubt that on my project it is my smallest hand plane, an old nondescript piece of metal that I inherited from my Dad and I suspect he got it from his Dad as well. I removed a ton of material with it today to make the bilge panels fit. The first panel [...]
May 17, 2008
Bottom Up
2/80
I spent a couple of hours Friday night getting the bottom on the bulkheads, lining it up with the centre lines, drilling holes and tying it all together with plastic zip ties.
I also planed the mess on the stem … getting rid of a ton of thickened hardened epoxy and the extra bit of [...]
May 7, 2008
April 28 to May 6, 2008
6/68
Mostly sanding the last few days.
I cut some Douglas Fir to size for the transom framing and glued them to the transom using Titebond III. I figure I am going to tape and epoxy these joints so using Titebond shouldn’t hurt anything. It’s so much nicer to use it than epoxy. I have to [...]
