Building Pg 2

The Building Process
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The planks for the sides have been cut and assembled, and I am getting used to working in these tight quarters. Made the drive to Edensaw Woods to pickup the spruce and mahogany for the solid wood pieces.

The 16 foot pieces are a bit long for this truck.

I made it the 80 miles back home without incident though.

Clamps, clamps, and more clamps
This view shows the chine strip clamped in position on the inner edge of one side.

The spruce and mahogany is stored in the void under the work surface.

Both sides are clamped together and shaped using a block plane to ensure the sides match.

The stem piece is used to transfer the shape of the bow to the side planks.

This project has had it's share of mishaps, one was when I got ahead of myself and mixed up some epoxy to glue the laps on the second set of planks only to discover I hadn't cut the gains on those pieces yet. Since the pot life of the mixed epoxy was less than it takes to cut the gains, I had to let the mixture harden in the cup. Epoxy cures by chemical action rather than evaporation like most glue.

Oops, forgot to cut the gains.

The curing epoxy got hot enough to distort the plastic mixing cup.

The transom is to be 3/4 inch thick when finished. After glueing up three pieces of spruce for the transom, I ran the piece through a planer down to 5/8 inch then epoxyed a piece of 4mm ply to the inside to bring it back to 3/4 inch and to provide additional strength to the spruce transom. This is not called for in the plans and is not needed, but because I had to remove more than I intended to get the piece straight and I was unsure of the finished strength and decided to add the 4mm ply on the inside surface.

Cutting the bevels on the transom to accept the sides and bottom

Transom frame pieces are glued to the transom to provide additional strength when attaching sides.

Below are shots of the 3/8 half round being glued to the outside of the side planks.

One side is completed and the second side is glueing.

Detail showing clamp extentions

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The 16 foot pieces are a bit long for this truck.	I made it the 80 miles back home without incident though.

Clamps, clamps, and more clamps This view shows the chine strip clamped in position on the inner edge of one side.	The spruce and mahogany is stored in the void under the work surface.

Both sides are clamped together and shaped using a block plane to ensure the sides match.	The stem piece is used to transfer the shape of the bow to the side planks.


Oops, forgot to cut the gains.	The curing epoxy got hot enough to distort the plastic mixing cup.


Cutting the bevels on the transom to accept the sides and bottom	Transom frame pieces are glued to the transom to provide additional strength when attaching sides.


One side is completed and the second side is glueing.	Detail showing clamp extentions