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stumpy · Post by **stumpy** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:41 am

I buy the 2 1/2" for $7.99/ 36 from harbor freight all the time, seems to be an optimal size for me.

COPPERPOINT · Post by **COPPERPOINT** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:55 am

Nancy, I love that! As I have a yellow lab (that won't stay out of the water) I get it.

Rich

Griffin800 · Post by **Griffin800** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:31 pm

Sure you can have too many clamps, specially right after you move and they are stuffed into several boxes <g>.

Bill H.

Nancy · Post by **Nancy** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 6:31 pm

Finished stripping the hull tonight.

Now I ran out of the lighter WRC strips so I lined the opening with some thin strips of dark WRC and filled it in with some dark strips that have some interesting grain pattern. They should look pretty cool glassed.

Hope to get the external stems on this weekend and start fairing the hull.

Post by **Ross Leidy** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:22 pm

Looks good, Nancy. Best of luck on fairing the hull. Those flat cut grain strips can be a challenge to get smooth. A cabinet scraper can be handy.

Ross

stumpy · Post by **stumpy** » Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:45 pm

Beautiful job, Nancy! That Interesting Grain pattern is known as "spalting", which is fairly rare in cedar, more common in maple and birch, and is caused by moisture and trace infusion of minerals in the drying process... much sought after in furniture veneers for the uniqueness of the spalted patterns.
Can't wait to see what you do on the deck!

Nancy · Post by **Nancy** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:20 am

David - Thanks for the explanation on the reasons for the grain pattern. The board looked the same as the others until I started ripping strips. Should look interesting when glassed.
Not much time to work on the hull this week but I am still having fun with the veneer. I finished an onlay for the deck this week.

Set on a piece of pine veneer to see how it will look on the white cedar deck. This is the side that will be glued to the deck.

Blue masking tape holding everything together. Hope it will look OK when I peel it all off.

COPPERPOINT · Post by **COPPERPOINT** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 9:52 am

Very nice Nancy. That looks like the kind of thing that will motivate you to get the deck finished. I'm at a similar point on my own boat. How thick is the veneer you are using? What tools are you using to cut it out?

I can't wait to see the hull glassed. That red cedar should look spectacular.

Rich

Nancy · Post by **Nancy** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:53 am

Thanks Rich. It's been a lot of fun planning the deck design and working with the veneer. I bough a variety pack at a local Woodcraft store. http://www.woodcraft.com/Product/200575 ... -Pack.aspx
The thickness varies some with the species and is not specified on the package, but I would say it is all 1mm or less. The blue tape before cutting is a tip from George K on the CLC Forum. Check out pictures of his work on this post.
http://www.clcboats.com/forum/clcforum/thread/8820.html
Some of the pieces on the bulkhead I cut on my scroll saw. It is not a vaiable speed so I was getting too much breakage on the small pieces for the sun. That was cut mostly by hand with an X-acto knife or scissors.

stumpy · Post by **stumpy** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:15 am

Breakage on the scroll saw will be lessened, Nancy, if you run a piece of scrap 1/4" plywood, the size of the scrool saw table, halfway through the saw, making a zero gap auxillary table, then tape that to your scroll saw table. It won't cure all those problems, but it will help.
I bought a new sheetrock knife the other day, with twin blades, and am now trying to figure out how to bypass the safety that prevents you from extending both blades at the same time, so I can cut strips with it, that look like 1/4" wide. It's made by Bostich, and seems to be pretty well made, but is really designed for two different types of blades- one straight, and one hook-blade, but it would be really cool to be able to use it to cut nice even width strips... besides, it looks really cool, and it's taxi yellow and black, so it matches my tape measure... how could I resist? So what if I now have 8 times more knives than I have hands?

Love the inlay, Nancy! I always watch your builds to see what you're going to come up with next!

Nancy · Post by **Nancy** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 12:14 pm

Thanks for the tip David. I did make a replacement plate with a smaller opening and taped some hatch gasket to the feet to hold everything snugger to the table. It hepled some. I'll try the plywood when I work on my next piece.

Good luck with the knife. Sounds like a neat idea for cutting veneer strips. If you can not make it work, you might try to find a way to connect a couple of rotary fabric cutters. Back to back they should cut a strip about 3/8" wide. These are different sizes but you get the idea. Yellow and black too!

stumpy · Post by **stumpy** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 5:11 pm

Great idea, Nancy! They already know me by name at the local JoAnn, and, even if I do get the new knife working, this could give me another size strip!
I have a design for a stripper, but really want to wait 'til I can find a supplier of paulownia, before I go ahead with the build... I know they're out there...

defer · Post by **defer** » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:40 pm

Hey David, if you do find a North American distributor of paulownia, pls do let us know. I like the light of the color pine/spruce I have available locally , but am frustrated with the pull-out. Random orbit sander works fine, but I sure enjoy the making quieter curlies using the block plane.

Nancy · Post by **Nancy** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:06 pm

Hours & hours ....& hours of sanding this week. Stems attached and shaped.

Wet down to raise the grain

The seal coat went on last night.

The glass this morning. Feels like some real progress now.

defer · Post by **defer** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 9:24 pm

Nancy, that's looking great. The "curly " grain turned out very well.