Glued up my first real piece of boat today, for the record it was one of the bottom laminations of the transom frame. Didn't go too bad, I pre-drilled the nail holes, then plastered the glue on and stuck it together and bashed the nails in. I ended up also clamping lightly as the ends seemed to have a bigger gap. I didn't quite get glue squirting out all the way around. So obviously I need to stick a bit more glue on. Pity to as I had some left over but once the nails were driven there was no going back.
I practiced the nailing on some scrap pieces and determined that a 2.5mm drill bit seemed to be the best. I tried to find a suggested size but the only thing I could find was that you need to Pre drill the full length of the nail. Anyway that seemed to go off without a hitch.
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