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- Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:59 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Planks not level, help!!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2373
Your canoe will have a shape determined by the molds and where you cut the top, not the pattern of the strips. If your strips are uneven, the consequence will be in the way it looks. It is not often that anyone will see the canoe from the proper angle where it will be apparent that the strips don't ...
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Brass stem band vs. extra layers of fiberglass?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4229
- Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:42 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: staple holes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3855
I've made several boats using staples, and would definitely not fill the holes with white glue and sawdust. It is likely to make them far more noticeable. If you insist on filling them, use sawdust in the epoxy you will use for glassing. I've heard people advocate doing that with fast curing epoxy, ...
- Mon Dec 21, 2009 12:58 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: epoxy use in basement
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4769
I agree that polyester type resins are much bigger ventilation problems. Epoxy should not be a problem unless someone has already been exposed and become allergic, or if you have someone living in the house who has extremely bad allergies. Then I would not chance it, because while the likelihood of ...
- Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:37 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Redwood Strips
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7914
It's a little harder and heavier than the cedar I've used, but works very well for woodstrip canoes. In Minnesota in the early '70s it was the usual thing to use, partly because at that time it was cheap and readily available in 20' lengths. It took me a while to realize that there is no need to use...
- Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:44 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Laminated yoke
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6829
- Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:25 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Varnish without amber tint?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1539
I no longer worry about it, but a few years ago I looked around pretty extensively for a non-yellow varnish and wound up with system three wr-lpu clear gloss. http://www.systemthree.com/p_wr_lpu.asp It is as colorless as anything, very durable and UV protecting, and not cheap. It's only been a bit o...
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:41 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Fishing Line Method Question
- Replies: 4
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- Fri Aug 21, 2009 3:12 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Hiding Bolts?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4402
Yes I was referring to those. I am sorry if I gave the impression that I did not think it was a good solution -- I think it's an excellent one. I just thought it ironic that the particular photo used to show the lack of hardware had such an ugly (IMO) piece of hardware in it. His method without that...
- Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:01 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Hiding Bolts?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4402
Here's a link tyo a guy who embeds the hardware in the gunwales so it's invisible: http://www.greenval.com/FAQhidden.html He then adds some awful looking piece of hardware, but that does not hold on the seat or thwart. I used a different approach on one boat: I simply fit blocks of wood to the curve...
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:30 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Q about tying off caning on seats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6145
I think yours looks good, but another option is to simply leave off the binding as I did. My weave is different from usual: notice all the different sizes of 5-pointed stars. It's an aperiodic tiling that does not repeat, even if the pattern is extended to infinity. http://www.woodworking.org/photo/...
- Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:44 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Wood for Construction
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9867
The strength is mostly from the glass, with the wood providing a stable separation between layers of glass. Lighter wood is nice because it makes a lighter boat, but anything will work. I believe cottonwood is the lightest of those you mention, but the question is whether it will machine and bend sm...
- Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:47 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Stripping with mahogany
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2746
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:53 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Varnish seat frames prior to caning?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1899
- Wed Jun 03, 2009 5:48 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: precoat with epoxy?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5153
I've done it both ways. Both work fine and have advantages over the other method in some circumstances. It seems to me that many of the arguments about techniques like this come about because what we are doing really is different. Different types of epoxy at different temperatures behave very differ...