Marc's Miscellanea

With the strips all cut to the same width I spent this weekend putting the bead and cove edges on them. By adjusting the outfeed setup a bit I was able to put the router table I’d made right on the box beam from the strongback. The router just fit down into one of the […]

So the less than stellar rip fence on the table saw doesn’t hold its setting apparently. I found after checking some of my strips that throughout the day the fence had slipped away from the blade and some bundles of strips were thicker than others. So I had to re-rip several bundles of strips to […]

I threw a pin cherry log on the mill today. I’m hoping to get the gunwhales and thwarts out of this if it isn’t too badly checked. The log was cut almost two years ago but it has been up off the ground. The ends were very checked but after cutting off as much as […]

Today I made the stem molds. This was the first time I’ve gotten to turn points on paper into a three dimensional object made of wood. The plans that I’d lofted earlier get taped to a scrap board (to save the workbench from holes and cuts). A tiny finishing nail is driven through each point […]

Canoe building this week has taken place on our kitchen table with the drafting supplies. I’m using the table of offsets in Canoecraft to make the plans for the station molds. Not super thrilling work, but it is exciting seeing the shapes of the canoe coming out on the paper. Plotting the points requires a […]

Good weather has finally struck for a few days in a row. I’ve moved the thickness planer into the covered bay outside and set up some sawhorses with the plywood from the strongback as the infeed and outfeed tables. I took two afternoons to slowly bring all my planks to a uniform thickness.   It’s […]