I used a router to take the majority of wood out and also use a power file to tidy it up.
Then simply glue them in place. I will sand them as I go around the hull double checking everything is fair.
Wednesday 18 April 2012
Planking Prep
With most of the stringer fairing done, a few more jobs need to be done before planking begins. One of them is butt blocks for joining the panels. I will scarf the keel and inner wing but I have decided against scarfing the large side panels due to the size as I am building this all by myself so full length side panels would be too hard to manage. The butt blocks are made from the same 6mm Okume as the panels which I cut on the table saw which allowed me to quickly make a lot of them straight and identical in width.
I used a router to take the majority of wood out and also use a power file to tidy it up.
Then simply glue them in place. I will sand them as I go around the hull double checking everything is fair.
I used a router to take the majority of wood out and also use a power file to tidy it up.
Then simply glue them in place. I will sand them as I go around the hull double checking everything is fair.
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looking good Rodney. Is letting the butt blocks into the stringers the usual method- seems like a good idea. Most of the examples I have seen on line seem to be located between the stringers. Just wondering, your method seems the tidiest. Keep up the good work
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Thanks Bryan. I'm not actually sure which is the usual method but what I have done makes sense to me, as it makes it easy to keep the side fair with one continuous piece of ply as opposed to multiple pieces which could be hard to keep aligned.
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