Ready to begin

[huisjen]

I pick up the lumber for the skin-on-frame peapod tomorrow. Today I was shopping at my favorite second hand place (the local transfer station) and found three mostly good by dinged up 4x8 sheets of luaan ply, good for station molds. I also got a pallet big enough to set up as a jig for bending the stems.

I could actually get this thing started soon.

More to follow.

Dan

[Harry Miller]

You bought the lumber today and you're going to start soon - you need some help - in the art of procrastination [img]smile.gif[/img] . I've had the lumber for my little lapstrake dink since the summer and hardly any work done. How? Well a bad back helps but I don't wish that on anyone. What I had going for me was an almost dead white oak. I got the city to approve its removal and it's been taken to a local sawmill, a nice farmer with a woodmiser and now it's in my garage waiting to dry to 20%. Not much of that going on with the temp supposed to peak at minus 18C (0F) for the next couple of days. Surely you can think of something.

[huisjen]

Harry, if it's dry, it doesn't steam bend well. Turn to! Get to work! Life's a-wastin'!

Got my lumber. I then managed to build a jig (out of a pallet and some plywood from the dump) for bending my stems. I checked it with a spline, and one point needed to be moved, but otherwise, I now need to rip some oak and fire up the steam box.

Our high was -5°F, but I managed to burn enough accumulated scraps to get it up to 40° in the shop for the couple hours I worked at it.

Dan

[ 01-14-2004, 09:04 PM: Message edited by: huisjen ]

[Harry Miller]

I need a keel and two transoms before I need the frames. But more than anything else I need a kick in the right place. Just let me turn my back.
But I'm glad somebody's making progress.