More Canoe

[catsittingstill]

I put in about four hours of sanding today before it began to sprinkle and I had to move everything hastily back inside.   I did step up to 120 grit sandpaper for the random orbital sander, though.  And I found and sanded out most of the imperfections, I think.  I still need to do one side, near the sheer.  I also put in a lot of hand sanding near the bow and stern with the sandpaper lollipop and the sanding block.  If I do another boat I might give some thought to buying a lower profile sander that would fit closer to the ends of the boat.   However the hand sanding is faster than I feared it would be--but I have to keep stopping and using the shopvac to clear the sanding block and the hull of sawdust.  I'm pretty sure the sandpaper doesn't cut as well when it's riding on a layer of sawdust.  I think I am nearly ready to step up to 120 grit sandppaer for the hand sanding too.

When the sprinkles put a stop to working outdoors, I put in another hour or so laying out the spacers on the inwales.  I need another pair of spacers for the front.  I thought I would have enough but decided I liked a 3 1/2 inch spacing better than a 4 inch spacing.  I'm wondering how I should keep everything lined up when I epoxy them on the gunwales.  Walnut is fairly dark wood, so pencil lines don't show up well, and I'm a klutz with the epoxy so I expect I'll have thickened epoxy "peanut butter" all over everything, which would make pencil lines impossible to see anyway.

I suppose I could put together a temporary gluing jig; I have plenty of that old white pine 1 x 1 1/2.  I could add a stop on one end for the gunwale end to brace against and then just run the pencil lines on the white pine, which is nice and light colored.  I have plenty of the stuff so if I get the lines wrong I can just throw it away and take another piece.  I could even run a groove 2 gunwales wide down it, and wax the groove and not bother with flippy, slippery plastic.

Hmmm.

In other news I am thinking about what to post on tolerance.  It's a bit of a difficult question, as I'm wondering if I have been as tolerant as I should be, and where the line lies between criticizing harmful ideas and being bigoted against people.  It is not very comfortable territory.

Comments

[keris]

Chalk for marking on the dark wood? I've seen that used on other dark materials. We used to be able to get chalk pencils (with a relatively fine point compared to blackboard chalk), I have no idea where one would get them these days though.

[catsittingstill]

Hmm. That's a pretty good idea.

The only chalk I could find was sidewalk chalk, which is precisely as big and clumsy as you would imagine, but I could sharpen it to a finer point on a piece of sandpaper.

On the other hand I am a little worried that it would either come right off when the epoxy went on, or be permanently epoxied in. And the chalk I've been using is a virulent pink :-)

I should try a few different things.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

It's hard to be tolerant of intolerable behaviors.

I am willing to be just fine with people who believe that [Insert religious belief system here] is the "One, True, Way."

I am unwilling to be tolerant of those same people imposing that Way upon others.

I'm not certain that is bigotry, or if that is outrage against impoliteness and intolerance.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I'm thinking about where and how to draw the line.

And I'm trying to think about whether what I think I think is being affected by what I don't want to look stupid for having said in the past.

And if that looks a little opaque it's even more opaque to think.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

I prefer acceptance or embracing our differences to tolerance. To me, tolerance means "we don't really like you, but we'll put up with you."

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm trying to move away from "let's force members of Religion X to suck up to us in order to be able to build a YMCA" and "let's burn Religion X's holy book to show them we're top dog."

I realize tolerance isn't all the way to "I love you" but maybe it's both as far as is practical, and far enough to get along.

Obviously "I rejoice in our diversity" is even better, but ...baby steps. I aim to start with baby steps.

But, hey, if you want to write a piece on acceptance or embracing our difference or rejoicing in diversity--I rejoice in the diversity; by all means go ahead!

[mdlbear]

Given where a lot of people are coming from right now, mere tolerance from them would be an improvement. I'll embrace our differences if they will; but I'd settle for tolerance if it's the best they can manage.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not regaling with you stories of ill-formed surfaces. "Never trust foreign geometry."

"...as tolerant as I should be..." I don't think there is any "should." It is up to you. Tolerance, I think, has to include some idea of not appealing to some universal "should."