Re: To Build a Boat (any boat)
JasonB congrats on the new JasonB. That might be the result of spending extra time with the family?
We want pics of the croc boat and the new Jasonb when they are both finished
<br /><br />Calico - That could work as long as the shape holds when its removed after pre bending... there's a lot of stress to it during the bend so I'm a lil aprehensive about removing it. Strongly considering this expenading glue. It should expand into any voids there should be and being 100% waterproof seems like the good deal. I used this stuff on the canoe and it worked decent to hold some broken pieces in place. This is NailPower power urethane glue... says its 100$ polyurethane glue, 3x the sticking power over oridnary glues, recommended for every kind of material I could consider using it with, and the water proof thing helps. Its the stuff you need a lil moisture on the surface to help it cure and when it does it expands into a very dense foam. I've used it in a couple of other places on this thing to try it out, and it takes a lot longer to cure than resin but its strong enough that when you pry the two pieces of wood apart when they are fully cured, it pulls wood apart, does not seperate the wood from the glue. After much deliberation with myself, I'm probably gonna go with this as I can take as much time as I need getting the wood in place before the glue dries. I'm also thinking that I might only come up 2/3 of the way with the next piece. If you look at the pics there are 4 "stringers" across the nose that this is bent around.. I may only come up to the third one with this second sheet as there's not really going to be any water force on the top one and the from the second one down to the top one is the funkiest part of the curve and puts the most stress on the wood.<br /><br /><br />CPJ the plywood on the nose is doubled up 1/4" I think even shallow kerfs would cause trouble for me in the bend as thats getting way too thin. The first sheet would have been ok to do that but this second sheet needs to sit as flat as possible against the first sheet.
I shyed away from the half inch ply on the nose cause I would have had to cut close to 70 reliefs into it before I was done and laminating 2 sheets of 1/4 seemed soo much easier
