First Milemarker on Canoe--Form done

[catsittingstill]

Or arguably the second, if we count designing and drawing up the plans as the first.

Today I finished carving the ends to sharp ridges, I finished gluing clamping ridges to the crosswise stations, I re-aligned the truing string and checked all the stations to make sure they were properly positioned on the strongback and all aligned to the same vertical.

My canoe form; let me show you it:



After taking this photo I put duct tape on the bow and stern stem stations, but not anywhere else.  Unlike previous builds where I used staples or fishing line to hold the planks in place while the carpenters glue dried, this time I will be using hot glue, and that means the strips have to touch the actual plywood of the molds.  Which means I will need to be a bit sparing of the carpenters glue if I don't want the plywood to become a permanent part of the hull (which believe me, I don't.)

And tomorrow I start planking.

Plus I now need to go practice...

Comments

[keris]

It looks like a boat! I guess that's the point, but I've never seen it at this stage.

BTW, what happened with the ankle? If you are back doing canoe stuff I guess the ankle isn't as bad as it was, but I only just read about it so to me it's only a minute ago...

[catsittingstill]

Saturday was the day it was really bad--I worked on carving the ends of the forms for maybe an hour and then I had to go lie down and prop it up and have tylenol and an ace bandage and a cane.

Sunday I wrapped it in an ace bandage and scootched my sock and boot on very carefully and limped gently around the shop finishing the forms. I skipped my daily walk.

Today I skipped my daily walk, decided to try going without the ace bandage, limped gently around the shop and gradually forgot to limp. My foot feels a little more tired than usual but I don't usually get so excited that I work in the shop until 9:30 at night either.

Tomorrow I may try going for my walk again. No jogging for a while, though.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I like the way this photo doubles as a contour map of the hull.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

:-) It is kind of cool. I'm glad you like it.

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

And now that the formalities are done, you can get to work?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Oh, boo!

But yes, I put on eight strips today.

[filkferengi]

I don't know about your planking, but possess pronounced partiality for your plinking.

;)

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I have been doing a reasonably good job of keeping up on that too, I think. :-)