A Seil in California

[rgthom]

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Looking good! I have a set of those rounding planes, they were very useful but now I do not recall where I got them. I sharpen them with 600 grit sandpaper over a dowel.

[The Jeff]

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I went down a rabbit hole looking for them and found these: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop...t?item=05K5030

[Toxophilite]

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Ah yes of course they look like a Lee Valley item.

I went down a rabbit hole looking for them and found these: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop...t?item=05K5030

. Available locally too. Excellent and thanks

[pez_leon]

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I went down a rabbit hole looking for them and found these: https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop...t?item=05K5030

There they are! I used them here on the edges of the gunwales that couldn't be accessed by a trim router with a roundover bit. Fully recommended at that price. I do have some trouble sharpening them - I'm never quite sure I hit the edge right, but then again I haven't really devoted myself to sorting it out. They are fantastic for soft straight-grained wood. On hardwood or anything cross-grained you'll want to work sequentially through the sizes to reduce the depth of cut and pay close attention to make sure you're working with the grain.

How long before you put a kid on each oar and you sit in the back with a drum?

Swap the drum for a steaming cup a coffee and you have perfectly described the dream, which persists despite any amount of actual experience with these actual kids and their actual temerarious independent temperaments. One word from me and they do whatever they want. Maybe they'll discover a passion for rowing that exceeds even their passion for snacks, mischief, and fraternal conflict. Either way I'm sure we'll have fun.

- James

[Toxophilite]

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Use their snack passions to motivate your rowing dreams

[pez_leon]

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The transoms, which had three coats of varnish before they were even on the boat, got their seventh coat this morning.


This means that the gunwales, thwarts, and other bits are only on their fourth coat. This means I have more varnishing to do!

[WI-Tom]

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Very cool to see your progress. This is my favorite building thread going on right now.

Tom

[pez_leon]

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As of midnight:


Still a few more coats of everything to go.

- James

[rgthom]

Wow, its a boat! Looks fantastic.

[John Meachen]

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Nice job!

[The Jeff]

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Looking good!

[pez_leon]

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Motivated by a recent post on the wisdom of sealing screw holes I put down my paintbrush and got out a small syringe. Each screw hole was treated with epoxy before the screw was driven in. Most the screws got neat epoxy, save for a fraction which, for reasons not worth getting into, got the part of the batch into which I had mixed some colloidal silica.
When I went to pull the screws the next day, that silica made a difference! Just about all of the screws set in neat epoxy backed out neatly. Just about all of the screws in the silica'd batch broke:



leading to a lot of this:



As I cranked away on the pliers in tiny little half-turns I had some time to reflect on the wisdom of delaying jobs like this until one is absolutely certain one's schedule allows returning at just the right time to pull the screws. But: everything came out one way or another; the boat is now better protected from rot; and we're clean and ready for a third and probably final interior coat of paint. I'm already glad I put the time in to treating those holes.

[timo4352]

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Heat up the head of the screw with a soldering iron and they will back right out.

[pez_leon]

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Heat up the head of the screw with a soldering iron and they will back right out.

I did! At least after the first broken screw. And while it helped, I still broke quite a few more. I was amazed at how stuck they were after only 18 hours of curing in roughly 60 degree weather.

[rgthom]

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If you are doing more try toilet ring wax on the threads, keeps the epoxy from grabbing the screw.