KINDLING trys on her new frames-------pics

[Lowell Bernhardt]

Here are some pictures that I thought yall may want to see. The frames arn't the best and they were a nice exersice in futility. I'm going to rebuild them because of some problems that I had wi=hile building them. The bow frame, I noticed after I cut it out that one of the peices of wood are cupped. The stern frame had one too many dados cut into it. And might I add that it was in the wrong spot.

Here's a shot from the bow if you look closely you can see the cupping of the bottom (top) of the frame. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid46/p5076f45f7a072e4a4ce76e868532edf5/fcc9c729.jpg

Here is a profile shot of the bow frame. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid46/p83363897da839225a0950ff5edaa27f1/fcc9c726.jpg

Here is a profile shot of the stern frame. http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid46/p20bd55a0f4e6d5fac183ce82822d01ca/fcc9c725.jpg

Now on to my next delimna. I'm going to refasten the entire boat because alot of the fastenings are pulling out of the frames. As I started to work on this problem I'm now running into a different one. Where the wood was cut for the stringers to land on all of the frames the wood is pretty sad. Anywhere the end grain was exposed the wood is now pretty soft. I mean soft enough to not want to hold a new screw.

The little voice in the back of my head says rebuild all the frames that don't have enough wood to refasten. That would be the logical thing to do? Right? If I do that then the only part of the origional boat that would be left would be the stringers and the deck members. Then there is the woice that says, leave the frames as they are and just cut out the bad sections of them and put them back together using a good tight joint.

As usual, any help guidance or "CONSTRUCTIVE" criticism would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,
Lowell

[Paul Scheuer]

I'd replace (vs. repair) anything that looked suspicious. Much easier to do that now than when it's all back together. You're not talking about a lot of wood, or even a lot of additional work. The essence of the boat will remain, even if you replace all of the physical pieces. (There's my cosmic thought for the day).

One constructive caution - take a good look at how fair the stringers are. They may look good as a skeleton, but any lumps will surely show when the skin is on. (see my Folbot pic in the earlier thread)

[nedL]

Lowell, How are things coming on "Kindling"?