I just finished shaping the slots on my inwales a task I found particularly satisfying. A quick test run with some scrap on the router table was ugly and scary so I went to plan B.
I clamped the inwales together with the faces to be machined facing each other. I bored holes with a 1/2" forstner bit at each end of the layout for the slots, unclamped the inwales and went to work with a coarse rasp. It was very easy to hog out the waste between the forstner half holes and finish with a file and sandpaper. Any time I can use a hand tool instead of a machine and get better results I am happy. There is something about the symmetry of the slots I find very pleasing to the eye AND it beats the hell out of sanding epoxy.
S
Inwale shaping
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