GS' garboards

[gert]

Template is made of two 1/2X1 plywood battens pinned exactly at panel location, "truss" parts are 1/8 X 1 1/2 plywood hotmelt glued and stapled; the tighter these are the less movement there will be when its taken off the frames. The lower (upper) batten is the same one that was used to bevel the keelson using the Tom Hill block on power and hand plane method; the second batten was added after beveling; this "should" work for all the planks.
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Template is clamped to the garboard blank (which was rough shaped with a skill saw prior to scarfing using the template) and a pattern bit in the router is used directly against the template. The soup can cointains 14lbs of lead and functions as a counter balance.
(tight quarters)
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The opposite plank is cut using the first one as a guide; the garboards fit beautifuly and only require a little fiting at their tips

[Dave Gray]

Ingenious way to fit a plank. Won't be long now till the whole boat is planked out....

[StevenBauer]

Wow. I gotta get me some of those lead filled soup cans! :)

Nice work, Gert.

Steven

[gert]

Yea; I've got 14 of them, only 66 more to go

[Bill Perkins]

Oh; cool Gert ! I knew this was going to be good . I'll be watching your build with great interest.

[Jay Greer]

I see no evidence of the planking being "lined off"? Have you made those considerations? No criticism intended, just curiosity. Nice spiling concept you have come up with!
JG

[gert]

I had applied battens at all the plank lands including the sheer but they were in the way; I wanted to get on with the garboard because I was anxious to discover if my spiling concept would work. It is only the garboard afterall and I have yet to fair the hull; there is a lot of work to be done to the garboards that you need easy access to. I have also discovered what I beleive to be a mistake on my part; I thought I understood where the rabit line was but now I'm not so sure.:confused:

is this 1" gap correct? Nope! I just checked my lofting; unbelievably it's correct on my lofting but I was relying on my memory. O well, nothing that can't be cheated
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scarfs after planing flat, no keelson material has been removed
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underside, I am cutting away parts of the moulds as they become redundant, this helps in the clean up
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