In order to proceed with the planking I first had to do a few hours of jiggery. That is, making the fixtures and wedges needed to hold the planks tight to the molds and each other while gluing them up. I’ve elected to build my canoe without staples which means a lot more clamps and […]
Archives for June 2014
The First Strips
To put the strips on the inner stems need to be profiled with a rolling bevel. The sides are very acutely angled at the top of the stem and change to being almost flat where the stem turns into the bottom of the boat. It’s best to tune this bevel as the strips go on […]
Installing the Molds
Now that my strongback is setup I got to install all the station molds. This was a pretty exciting and rewarding day, since you get to see the shape of your canoe in 3D for the first time. It took all day to get things set up since there is a lot of checking, clamping, […]
Strongback Assembly
Now that the Strongback halves have done their duty as support for machining the strips it’s time to assemble them into their proper form. In the photo above I’ve got the halves laying on their sides with the middle section clamped in place. You can see there’s a 1/4″ drill bit taped to the corners […]
Edge Profiling
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 […]
Re-ripping Strips
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 […]
Ripping Strips
Many hours on the table saw and several garbage cans full of sawdust later, all the boards are now strips. This was a pretty tedious part of the process and I imagine that doing the edge profiling is going to be similar. The good thing is that I have more than enough strips. Without knowing […]