Hy there - couldn`t believe it - my Freedom 17" looks like ready for varnishing. Fixed the hardware today (only have to wait for some long brass carriage bolts from Maine). The laminated deep thwart I build was so massive, that a elephant could sit on it, I made it a little to heavy I think - going to make a more elegant one after the paddling season .
So, what I did is build a bow slider seat like Swift Canoe corp. does it, I make some contour shaping to make the crossbar looking a little more nicer.
So I have to make a little wet sanding, and than start the varnsihing.
Have a nice weekend & thanks for all the great advice by Glen and all the others!
Chris
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Ready for varnish!!!
Ready for varnish!!!
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- Glen Smith
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Hi Glen,
the bending went fine, and teh result was very very very strong... I have done a little bit to much in using 6 strips of 3mm thickness and about 4 and a half cm wide. It took me abozt 300g resin to glue and the result was a absolut heavy thing with a weight of between 500 and 600 Gramm. We are planning to go to Sweden next month for about 12 weeks and I like to finish the canoe before, so I decided to build an easier and faster version to have the chance of coninuing the work. I like the idea of the lamnated thwart a lot, and I think that I will do a one later in the year. I will tell you about the results of varnishing the next week - but before I have to clean the workshop....
Best regards
Chris
the bending went fine, and teh result was very very very strong... I have done a little bit to much in using 6 strips of 3mm thickness and about 4 and a half cm wide. It took me abozt 300g resin to glue and the result was a absolut heavy thing with a weight of between 500 and 600 Gramm. We are planning to go to Sweden next month for about 12 weeks and I like to finish the canoe before, so I decided to build an easier and faster version to have the chance of coninuing the work. I like the idea of the lamnated thwart a lot, and I think that I will do a one later in the year. I will tell you about the results of varnishing the next week - but before I have to clean the workshop....
Best regards
Chris
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Wow! I am envious!
I await the day that I reach a successful milestone as you have. I too would like to thank all of the contributors to this BB. I have posted so few times, but I am a daily lurker! I have learned nearly as much from this forum as I have from the answer books (Canoecraft & Kayakcraft)!
If anyone is interested in my endeavour, you can find it at:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jgheebner ... /my_photos
I apologize for the plethora of pictures, but I am a first timer. I really have not had the time to cull the pictures for a chronological, concise visual story. My original intension was to post the photos mostly to convince my friends and family that I really was getting somewhere with my project that I spent so much time preparing for (in-between moves, family life, and work/travel). Plse ignore the family pictures. One day I will get around to sorting out the boat story book (probably not until my two little time machines grow up!)
I await the day that I reach a successful milestone as you have. I too would like to thank all of the contributors to this BB. I have posted so few times, but I am a daily lurker! I have learned nearly as much from this forum as I have from the answer books (Canoecraft & Kayakcraft)!
If anyone is interested in my endeavour, you can find it at:
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jgheebner ... /my_photos
I apologize for the plethora of pictures, but I am a first timer. I really have not had the time to cull the pictures for a chronological, concise visual story. My original intension was to post the photos mostly to convince my friends and family that I really was getting somewhere with my project that I spent so much time preparing for (in-between moves, family life, and work/travel). Plse ignore the family pictures. One day I will get around to sorting out the boat story book (probably not until my two little time machines grow up!)
Snowman back East