And on the first day
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:00 am
the shed got tidied 
I went paddling on Sunday with a strange man I met on the internet...
Nothing epic, to be honest it was all of 15 minutes but it was enough. I then spent 8 hours tidying the shed and finding all my tools.
I'm going to pick up the ply and some resin at the weekend and start. DK tourer (maybe a bit big but it will be good when there's an adult and two kids in it).
As soon as I can find the camera (buried under all the stuff out of the shed) I'll start the log.
I did some learning too with some scrap bits of ply and some very dubious quality tubes of epoxy glue:
a butt joint - excellent and if I can stop the resin sagging the next lot will stay in the joint
and I tried a fillet which taught me that if you don't use wooden spacers make sure you don't tack too close to the spacer. I read somewhere (or thought I did) about using washers as spacers so I tried and it works a treat until you glue them into the hull. At least lolly sticks break off and can be coated over, now where's the angle grinder...
the only wood "filler" I have found so far is a 650micron sawdust, will this work?
Weather will be perfect for building over the next month or so, neither too hot nor too cold hope to finish by ANZAC day (25 April), we'll see...
Tor
I went paddling on Sunday with a strange man I met on the internet...
Nothing epic, to be honest it was all of 15 minutes but it was enough. I then spent 8 hours tidying the shed and finding all my tools.
I'm going to pick up the ply and some resin at the weekend and start. DK tourer (maybe a bit big but it will be good when there's an adult and two kids in it).
As soon as I can find the camera (buried under all the stuff out of the shed) I'll start the log.
I did some learning too with some scrap bits of ply and some very dubious quality tubes of epoxy glue:
a butt joint - excellent and if I can stop the resin sagging the next lot will stay in the joint
and I tried a fillet which taught me that if you don't use wooden spacers make sure you don't tack too close to the spacer. I read somewhere (or thought I did) about using washers as spacers so I tried and it works a treat until you glue them into the hull. At least lolly sticks break off and can be coated over, now where's the angle grinder...
the only wood "filler" I have found so far is a 650micron sawdust, will this work?
Weather will be perfect for building over the next month or so, neither too hot nor too cold hope to finish by ANZAC day (25 April), we'll see...
Tor