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catsittingstillThe planks are cut, planed and shaped, sorted into piles (took advantage of the last of the sunlight as the clouds were closing in to sort them in our capacious driveway.)
The cedar gave 21 planks, of which one was all light, 8 were light-and-dark (sorted into four nearly-matching-pairs) and the remaining 12 all dark. My plan is to use four of the dark ones to give a 2-plank-wide stripe on each side, not too far from the gunwale. The rest I will save for another canoe (or canoes.) Cost wise they worked out to 3.25 a plank, not counting time for cutting and shaping.
The white pine gave about 60 planks (15 per board.) I would have gotten 17 per board but needed to cut each about 20 thousandths of an inch wider to give the planer something to work on. I don't expect to miss the extra 8 planks. I sorted them into mostly pink and cream, pink and mostly cream, strongly grained, and "seal marked" which have dark orange flecks on a lighter background. These are on the rack above the strongback. Cost-wise they worked out to 1.83 a plank, not counting time for cutting and shaping. So looking at it that way, the cedar stripe is only costing me $5.68 extra. The rest of the $70 dollar board is being saved for other boats.
Now I need to finish fixing the stations to the strongback, which I might be able to do this weekend if I can just focus long enough. Since Saturday looks like rain I won't be helping Martin tear down the remains of his burned woodshop. Sunday is still up in the air, though.
Also somewhere in there I need to find some time to experiment with the glue gun. If it turns out to be workable, I don't need to put screws in all around the edges of the stations, which would save me some time.
In other news I have finished _Late Eclipses_ so you can disregard the "no spoilers" part of that post.
The cedar gave 21 planks, of which one was all light, 8 were light-and-dark (sorted into four nearly-matching-pairs) and the remaining 12 all dark. My plan is to use four of the dark ones to give a 2-plank-wide stripe on each side, not too far from the gunwale. The rest I will save for another canoe (or canoes.) Cost wise they worked out to 3.25 a plank, not counting time for cutting and shaping.
The white pine gave about 60 planks (15 per board.) I would have gotten 17 per board but needed to cut each about 20 thousandths of an inch wider to give the planer something to work on. I don't expect to miss the extra 8 planks. I sorted them into mostly pink and cream, pink and mostly cream, strongly grained, and "seal marked" which have dark orange flecks on a lighter background. These are on the rack above the strongback. Cost-wise they worked out to 1.83 a plank, not counting time for cutting and shaping. So looking at it that way, the cedar stripe is only costing me $5.68 extra. The rest of the $70 dollar board is being saved for other boats.
Now I need to finish fixing the stations to the strongback, which I might be able to do this weekend if I can just focus long enough. Since Saturday looks like rain I won't be helping Martin tear down the remains of his burned woodshop. Sunday is still up in the air, though.
Also somewhere in there I need to find some time to experiment with the glue gun. If it turns out to be workable, I don't need to put screws in all around the edges of the stations, which would save me some time.
In other news I have finished _Late Eclipses_ so you can disregard the "no spoilers" part of that post.
