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by Rabbit
Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:51 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Cool weather epoxy cure
Replies: 4
Views: 2170

Re: Cool weather epoxy cure

sand an inconspicuous spot. if it sands powdery and the paper is fairly clean, then you will need to key the whole surface and it will be a mechanical bond. if the paper clogs and gums up then it's still green enough to get a chemical bond. :safety glasses
by Rabbit
Fri Sep 13, 2013 5:14 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: CNC molds
Replies: 1
Views: 1208

Re: CNC molds

i had my molds cnc routerd by a sign shop. i don't know about converting into a specific language, but they just wanted the files in the form of a vector. in my case i used solidworks and exported it as a pdf because that was a format they were happy with.
by Rabbit
Sat Sep 07, 2013 6:12 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: splinters - the story thus far.....
Replies: 14
Views: 11632

Re: splinters - the story thus far.....

jim: it's a 15ft bob's special. the dark strips are western red cedar. the pale strips are paulownia. looks like balsa, and like balsa it's a hardwood despite it's softness. supposed to have the same strength as cedar, but it is considerably lighter. here it's a plantation timber used for blinds/shu...
by Rabbit
Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:44 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: splinters - the story thus far.....
Replies: 14
Views: 11632

splinters - the story thus far.....

well, it's been a while, but it's actually looking almost like a canoe! after a lot of scraping and sanding (i missed a lot of glue drips on the inside when i was stripping, especialy on either side of the stations), it looked like this: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/colective/Canoe%20Build/i...
by Rabbit
Sat Sep 07, 2013 4:16 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: a question of clearance
Replies: 3
Views: 2675

Re: a question of clearance

thanx guys :tu i sanded the blank board i lamed up for the thwart today. i had made it the length it should be if it was a snug fit, and when i shoved it under the inwales just to see if the hull was too wide or too narrow, it was a perfect fit. since i decided not to mess around with a rolling beve...
by Rabbit
Fri Sep 06, 2013 8:23 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: a question of clearance
Replies: 3
Views: 2675

a question of clearance

hi all :) well, inwales installed, so next is fitting thwart and seats. neither the build a boat article, canoe craft or the nick offerman dvd seems to be too clear as to whether the thwart and seats should be touching the hull or if there should be some clearance. i'm sure i had read in a few place...
by Rabbit
Tue Aug 20, 2013 5:19 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: inner stem and fibreglassing
Replies: 3
Views: 2094

Re: inner stem and fibreglassing

some people glass up to them. i didn't like that idea, so i taped the inner stems down to about 1/4 inch and then filleted along the sides and around the end with thickened epoxy. the fillets were shaped round and i also filleted along the stem all the way up so that it had curves between the stem a...
by Rabbit
Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:08 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: silicon bronze tube?
Replies: 3
Views: 2288

silicon bronze tube?

hi gang :) since my outer stems are nicely rounded and encased i don't plan and bolting a bunch of hardware like stem bands and rings to them. was thinking of using glens method of a tube through the hull and inner stem for running rope through. the only problem i see is that glen uses brass. most o...
by Rabbit
Tue Aug 13, 2013 2:18 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: question on inwale width and grain
Replies: 5
Views: 2244

Re: question on inwale width and grain

alick: erm, it's new guinea rosewood, botanicaly not a real rosewood. someone just looked at the timber and said "this looks like rosewood, lets call it that", much like tasmanian oak is also called mountain ash, but it's neither oak nor ash :wink i weighed the timber today and it works ou...
by Rabbit
Sat Aug 10, 2013 11:08 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: question on inwale width and grain
Replies: 5
Views: 2244

question on inwale width and grain

hi all :) i unwrapped the new guinea rosewood that i was planning on using for my inwales and possibly my seat frames. now i haven't looked at this timber since i wrapped it up to protect it from the weather a couple of years ago. i never gave any thought to the grain when i had originally ordered i...
by Rabbit
Fri Aug 09, 2013 7:00 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: repairs underway - a cautionary tale
Replies: 18
Views: 39189

Re: repairs underway - a cautionary tale

epilouge the inner hull is glassed. i had decided to make some supports to go at the location of station 0, and 4 at each end. basically a vertical piece of timber with a cross bar the thickness of the innals below the sheer line and another crossbar about 4 inches below that, about halfway down th...
by Rabbit
Fri Aug 09, 2013 6:39 am
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: How light could it be?
Replies: 11
Views: 8495

Re: How light could it be?

one thing i discovered is that you cant rely on things like timber density charts and the like. i just weighed my glassed hull. its a 15ft bob's. i worked out that the hull glassed with no trim except the stems should weigh in at 10kg... it was 14kg. while there was some western red cedar, the hull ...
by Rabbit
Sun Feb 03, 2013 9:33 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: Scaled Ranger
Replies: 8
Views: 8314

Re: Scaled Ranger

i had to look up "belly boat" to figure out what you guys were talking about... and it was what i was afraid it was. :crying you couldn't pay me to fish in one of those things where i fish... bull sharks go way up river into the fresh here. :wink i went with the bob's special in the standa...
by Rabbit
Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:28 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: some assembly required
Replies: 0
Views: 20577

some assembly required

hi all :)

i think it was probably aired some time ago, but while i was channel surfing, discovery science here aired an episode of "some assembly required" which showed the construction of canoe by the old town canoe company. just thought that was interesting. :)
by Rabbit
Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:40 pm
Forum: Builders' Forum
Topic: resin kicked off whilst I was applying it arggh!
Replies: 4
Views: 1804

Re: resin kicked off whilst I was applying it arggh!

alick burt wrote:Resin went on fine today with the heater turned right down and smaller batches.
Many thanks
that's great news alick :tu