Hi everyone, Just a tip for those building their boat stage:
Because my project is now 12 years old, I decided to start from scratch again. I built my complete boat less skins over the last 4 weeks (mostly after hours only). I've seen many suggestions for clamping the gusset blocks - here is how I did mine: Whilst building the side frames, I use a pressed wood board for a table. I fit everything together and then use small nails to keep everything in place. Not through the stringers, but next to them. I also install the gussets blocks and after applying glue, use these nails against their angled sides to keep them tightly in place. One thing that I've discovered is to use wax paper on top of every joint and then apply a block of scrap wood on top to clamp the joint flush with the pressed wood board. This aligns everything and ensure a flush joint when done. When assembling the boat, I use a staple gun parallel with the gusset block angled glue sides to keep in place. Once again not through the top, but rather through the corner of the 45 degree sides of the gusset blocks. This save a lot of time and gives me good glued joints. If the above sounds a bit vague, I have some recent pics if anyone interested. Happy building, Hennie [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail is confidential and is for the addressee only. Please refer to http://www.kumbaresources.com/email-disclaimer for important disclaimers. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
