Tuesday, April 19, 2005

Double Diaganol




There is a fair amount of twist and shout happening up in the bow going from the V-bottom into a plumb bow. After a bit of thought, some research and a lot of head scratching, I decided to give the double diaganol planking method a go (this was actually planned for from the begining, thus the two layers throughout). The first layer went on pretty easily with a couple of the strips being a little ornery but aquiescing under duress (e.g. lot of screws). The second layer was a little harder, but also went on without much incident. All the edges were fitted using the router to trim both pieces at once and with rare exception, the joints came out reasonably close. Then I went back and trimmed down the excesss ply hanging off the edges--all of the sudden it's starting to look like a boat ehh?

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