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 […]
Archives for March 2014
Lofting
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 […]
Planing the planks
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 […]
Back to work – Starting the Strongback
After giving the planks 8 months to dry out, they’re ready to get machined into strips. To do that the planks have to go through the thickness planer, the table saw, and a router table. Each of those operations requires an infeed and outfeed of about 18′ each. So the doors for the shop need […]