{"id":263,"date":"2014-07-26T21:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T04:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.mykos.org\/?p=263"},"modified":"2014-07-31T18:09:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T01:09:57","slug":"fairing-the-stems-and-lots-of-sanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Fairing the stems and lots of sanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stem-chunky.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-254\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stem-chunky.png\" alt=\"stem chunky\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The stems are glued in place, and now it&#8217;s time to shape them into a fair curve with the rest of the hull. This is another spokeshave job, so I really had fun doing this. I did use my #4 smoothing plane to bring the bottom of the stem (on top of the inverted boat&#8230;) down to match the hull. But it could have all been done with the spokeshave.<\/p>\n<p>I left the leading edge 3\/8&#8243; thick for eventually adding a brass stem band. It comes out looking something like this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stem-fair.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-255\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/stem-fair.png\" alt=\"stem fair\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The circled patches on the hull are high spots.\u00a0 I had done one pass with the random orbital sander at this point.<\/p>\n<p>I really dislike sanding. When I first read Canoecraft and after having done some reading online I was pretty bummed by the amount of sanding that was described. Sanding is dusty and if you&#8217;re using a power sander it&#8217;s noisy as well. So wearing a respirator and earmuffs for hours wasn&#8217;t something I was looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>I did find that there wasn&#8217;t near as much sanding as people told me there would be. I ended up with about 3 hours of sanding for the exterior of the hull. Maybe I did more of my fairing with the spokeshave than some people ?\u00a0 I was able to get away with 60 grit for almost all of it followed by one quick pass with 120 grit.<\/p>\n<p>After the 60 grit I wiped the hull down with a wet rag to raise the grain. The neat part about this is that it shows you what the hull will look like after the epoxy goes on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/half-wetted-bottom.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-252\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/half-wetted-bottom.png\" alt=\"half wetted bottom\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/half-wetted-side.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-253\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/half-wetted-side.png\" alt=\"half wetted side\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stems are glued in place, and now it&#8217;s time to shape them into a fair curve with the rest of the hull. This is another spokeshave job, so I really had fun doing this. I did use my #4 smoothing plane to bring the bottom of the stem (on top of the inverted boat&#8230;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huron-cruiser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mykos.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}