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catsittingstillNo crack-puttying yesterday--I let a threatening sky talk me out of it.
No crawl-space clearing out either.
I did make the program for the LWV Candidates forum, and (with Kip's help) make fifty copies of it. I don't know if this will be enough, but it's what I can afford.
But--I did cut out the second thwart, smooth the convex edges of the thwarts with the Shopsmith sander, smooth the concave edges of the thwarts by hand (diagonal scrapes with the curved scraper I made for shaping the inside of the boat worked best, though I also use a rasp and a file and my little rat tail file--Shopsmith makes a drum sander attachment, sigh.) I also drilled all the holes for the caning of the seat, chamfered the edges of the holes with a chisel (minimum four cuts per hole because of the way the chisel and the wood grain work, or don't, together) and used the router on everything. I will be picking shavings out of the light fixtures for three days, and a router can make mistakes in the blink of an eye that would take hours to make by hand, but it went okay.
But sanding everything to the point where I could seal it with epoxy was out of the question. Maybe today.
No crawl-space clearing out either.
I did make the program for the LWV Candidates forum, and (with Kip's help) make fifty copies of it. I don't know if this will be enough, but it's what I can afford.
But--I did cut out the second thwart, smooth the convex edges of the thwarts with the Shopsmith sander, smooth the concave edges of the thwarts by hand (diagonal scrapes with the curved scraper I made for shaping the inside of the boat worked best, though I also use a rasp and a file and my little rat tail file--Shopsmith makes a drum sander attachment, sigh.) I also drilled all the holes for the caning of the seat, chamfered the edges of the holes with a chisel (minimum four cuts per hole because of the way the chisel and the wood grain work, or don't, together) and used the router on everything. I will be picking shavings out of the light fixtures for three days, and a router can make mistakes in the blink of an eye that would take hours to make by hand, but it went okay.
But sanding everything to the point where I could seal it with epoxy was out of the question. Maybe today.
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Date: 2010-10-13 05:52 pm (UTC)I expected to have to revarnish every two or three years, and it has held up well enough to meet my expectations (four years, actually, on Patience, but I definitely need to revarnish the inside.)
It tends to wear off the trim (gunwales, thwarts) before anything else.
The major irritation with revarnishing was that I didn't scratch up the old coat enough the first time (I had hand polished it, and the scotchbrite I tried to scratch it with was old and not harsh enough anymore) and the new varnish peeled off in chips. So be sure and scratch the old varnish up well.
I wouldn't mind something more durable if it came a long, but it would have to have a pretty good track record before I would use it on my boats that were so much effort to build.