Monday, 16 July 2012

Still working on the layout board and frames

Spent a good portion of today working on the boat again. It doesnt look like a whole lot from the pictures but it was quite a few hours of cutting and fine trimming the frame pieces to fit.

I got frame 3 copied to the layout board and all of the pieces cut to shape, just needs some sanding and then this frame will be waiting on plywood for the gussets and epoxy which I will get once all of the frames are ready for assembly.



It is hard to see in the picture but I now have all 4 of the frames copied to the layout board (Transom will be put together seperately).



Here is frame 4, it is now all cut to the correct shape as well just needs to be sanded.



Here is frame 2 layed out, same thing as the others above it is cut to shape and just needs sanding.




This took a lot longer than it looks, next time I hope to get frame 1 cut to shape and then I will start sanding all of the frames to get them ready. I picked up a new belt sander today so that should make fairly quick work of it but we will see.

It seemed a bit rough a few days ago and I thought I was going to have to start a few of the frames over from scratch but now I am getting the hang of it and think everything should work out, atleast for these 3 frames. We will see about frame 1 next time.

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