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GROOVY
06-07-2005, 10:29 AM
I thought I would ask here what is the best way to fit the plank ends into the rabbet in the stem.....
1/4"X6" vertical grain clear fir.
I will also need to locate the centers for a skarf to land on a 1/4" wide rib.
this is going to a Grant guideboat I hope
Thanks............
Mrleft8
06-07-2005, 10:48 AM
First, Do it the opposite way that I did it. I figured out after I did it the wrong way, that the wise thing to do is to leave your plank long, and cut the hood end to fit the rabbet nice and neat and snug, then fasten it with whatever you're fastening it with (don't forget your bedding compound). work your way aft from there. I started in the middle and worked my way forward, and had to cut the hood end to fit the rabbet... Not a pretty sight.
GROOVY
06-09-2005, 07:12 AM
hHHMMM, Maybe a picture http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/pe6a4ae930c1e8b2e140487f0c5415ec4/f3c6217e.jpg.orig.jpg
Mrleft8
06-09-2005, 08:05 AM
First things first! You gotta feed that poor thing more! It looks like a skeleton! :D
GROOVY
06-13-2005, 12:15 PM
perhaps a template marked with some colored chalk traced for outside curve indexed to stem? Any Tip for locating the skarf, need to land on 1/4"
frame?
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid173/pe9ba3264346cba77fd1fb92eed514500/f3b7d37f.jpg.orig

[ 06-13-2005, 01:57 PM: Message edited by: GROOVY ]
essaunders
06-14-2005, 01:07 PM
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid172/pe6a4ae930c1e8b2e140487f0c5415ec4/f3c6217e.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid173/pe9ba3264346cba77fd1fb92eed514500/f3b7d37f.jpg

[ 06-14-2005, 02:08 PM: Message edited by: essaunders ]
Tom Robb
06-17-2005, 02:59 PM
Small bevel gage (sp?) w/ one side resting on your previous plank or the keel rabbet, and the other end in the stem rabbet.
One of those nice brass pocket bevels (about as long as the width of the hood end or less) that www.sotherlandtool.com (http://www.sotherlandtool.com) sells in the back of our favorite magazine is handy. Or make one from the ends of an old hacksaw blade if you like.
Then refine the hood end shape on the hull before bedding-n-fastening.
A false stem would make all this easier of course, but where's the sport in that?