I probably wont post to much in the next month or so, as I have now fallen into a fairly repetitive routine of marking out, cutting out and fairing frame components. I'm not getting a lot of time at the moment, so I am only getting around 4 - 6 pieces a weekend done, less this weekend.
I have changed my method a bit. I was marking out each piece from the patterns. Now I mark out and cut one pieces, and then use that to trace around to make the corresponding piece. Its a bit easier, plus I tend to end up with two pieces that are more closely matches which makes fairing them a bit easier.
Sunday 17 July 2011
Sunday 10 July 2011
Opps - Small mistake
Was re-reading the instruction this afternoon and came across a note advising that the notches for the Keel, Chine and sheer were marked out when producing the frames but not cut out until it was time to install the sheer / Chine and Keel. Well......I have cut out pretty much all the keel notches, all the Chine notches, and a couple of the sheers....Opps. Never mind, nothing that some scraps on Mahogany and Epxoy glue wont cure.
I must have read the instruction at least a dozen times recently, but until you become really familiar with the parts, which only really comes when you start to manufacture them, its easy to miss the subtleties of it all.
I must have read the instruction at least a dozen times recently, but until you become really familiar with the parts, which only really comes when you start to manufacture them, its easy to miss the subtleties of it all.
Circular Plane
I was cleaning up a few more frames today, and up until now I had been clamping the two identical halves together and then using a belt sander to fair them off. Works fine, but a little slow. Then I remembered I had acquired from my late grandfathers tool collection a "Circular" plane. This great little plane has a flexible base plate that by means of an adjusting screw can form a convex or concave base. Following the curves is a simple as putting the plane on the surface, and then eyeballing it while you adjust it.
The only problem I had was that the way I had cut the parts meant that I was planing with the grain on one piece and against on the other, but as long as I took it gently it wasn't a problem. I was mostly just taking high spots off, so I would change directions depending on which piece I was taking the high spot off.
The only problem I had was that the way I had cut the parts meant that I was planing with the grain on one piece and against on the other, but as long as I took it gently it wasn't a problem. I was mostly just taking high spots off, so I would change directions depending on which piece I was taking the high spot off.
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