classiccat
"Captain" + Starmada Splash Of The Year 2020
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Re: My First StarCraft; 1975 18' SuperSport
It would be in poor taste to wish you happy Friday if you're Catholic...so, hello!
My excitement was short-lived when I discovered that I didn't remove the twist from my PLY. Spring-back and/or I was simply on a favorable spot on my concrete floor? :noidea:
So I decided to cut my losses and reserve a portion of transom #1 for the Bluefin; smaller footprint that can be taken from the sweet spot that isn't twisted.
I paid my local lumber yard another visit on the way home from work yesterday, grabbed another sheet of PLY. Top-veneer looked gorgeous.
Unloaded it from the truck directly onto the sawhorses, transferred the pattern and started cutting...and noticed the sawdust collecting in the center of the board
Stopped cutting, flipped it and discovered that it has a nice deep cup to it
I checked the large scraps from the 1st transom and they also are warped. :mad2:
I'll call the lumber yard to complain and maybe they'll throw me a discount on the deck ply.
I'm fairly certain that the freshly cut pieces can be salvaged by flipping them so that the convex surfaces face each other since the warpage from each 1/2 will counteract one another. The curves will naturally meet at the kneebrace. I'll also use about 1,000,000 drywall screws.
I didn't do that on the transom #1; the warpage from each 1/2 was cumulative.
Hard Lesson: Check your plywood BEFORE cutting AND before laminating. Most of you probably already know this...but if you didn't, maybe you still don't because I'm not sure what I said above makes 1-bit of sense :lol:
It would be in poor taste to wish you happy Friday if you're Catholic...so, hello!
My excitement was short-lived when I discovered that I didn't remove the twist from my PLY. Spring-back and/or I was simply on a favorable spot on my concrete floor? :noidea:
So I decided to cut my losses and reserve a portion of transom #1 for the Bluefin; smaller footprint that can be taken from the sweet spot that isn't twisted.
I paid my local lumber yard another visit on the way home from work yesterday, grabbed another sheet of PLY. Top-veneer looked gorgeous.
Unloaded it from the truck directly onto the sawhorses, transferred the pattern and started cutting...and noticed the sawdust collecting in the center of the board
Stopped cutting, flipped it and discovered that it has a nice deep cup to it
I checked the large scraps from the 1st transom and they also are warped. :mad2:
I'll call the lumber yard to complain and maybe they'll throw me a discount on the deck ply.
I'm fairly certain that the freshly cut pieces can be salvaged by flipping them so that the convex surfaces face each other since the warpage from each 1/2 will counteract one another. The curves will naturally meet at the kneebrace. I'll also use about 1,000,000 drywall screws.
I didn't do that on the transom #1; the warpage from each 1/2 was cumulative.
Hard Lesson: Check your plywood BEFORE cutting AND before laminating. Most of you probably already know this...but if you didn't, maybe you still don't because I'm not sure what I said above makes 1-bit of sense :lol:
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