First Milemarker on Canoe--Form done

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...

The Problem With Creativity

I keep coming up with clever little additional things to do in my arrangements.

And as a direct consequence, they keep getting harder to play.

That is all.