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I shove the canoe some more
May. 3rd, 2011 08:46 pmTwenty minutes at a time. One of the useful apps my iPod came with is a timer. I set it for twenty minutes and use the scraper or the random orbital sander on the inside of the canoe until it starts blatting. Then I set it for twenty minutes again and do something else to let my back and hands rest. Lather, rinse, repeat. This keeps me from bending over the canoe so long I hurt my back, or strain my wrists. The in-between times I lay out the strips I cut for the gunwales. At least one of them will have to have a bad part scarfed out. I also sanded some of the saw marks out of the gunwale strips, in hopes that would let me see any damaged bits more clearly.
Seriously, if I keep progressing this way--well, there's all the dookie-schmutzing of cracks to do, as well as the dookie schmutz stems, so I probably won't be ready to fiberglass the inside at the end of this week. The stems, in particular, tend to take at least a couple of days.
I also spent some in-between times working on music. Cedarglass now has a mandolin counterpoint. I need to learn to play it well enough to be sure what I think of it, but it sounds nice in PrintMusic, and I have sort of sung/played it a few times, finding areas where I wanted to make changes. Somehow I have to alternate between the computer and real music several times before I get it right. Also, what I set the voices to be in PrintMusic makes a huge difference in how the finished piece sounds. For example if, in my counter point, I'm singing G D and playing D G, it sounds completely different voice-against-guitar (PrintMusic does not have a "mandolin" option--a serious oversight, really) than it does voice-against-violin. In the former arrangement I can hear the parts moving quite clearly, in the latter arrangement it just sounds like a repeated chord.
Not that it matters all that much as I don't plan to record the computer--played version, but it makes it easier to keep straight which part is doing what as I make changes to both.
Still enjoying Flight of the Godkin Griffin. This is darn good; I wish I had it in e-book or paper book form. I'm planning to try Spots the Space Marine next, but want to finish one story before starting the next.
Seriously, if I keep progressing this way--well, there's all the dookie-schmutzing of cracks to do, as well as the dookie schmutz stems, so I probably won't be ready to fiberglass the inside at the end of this week. The stems, in particular, tend to take at least a couple of days.
I also spent some in-between times working on music. Cedarglass now has a mandolin counterpoint. I need to learn to play it well enough to be sure what I think of it, but it sounds nice in PrintMusic, and I have sort of sung/played it a few times, finding areas where I wanted to make changes. Somehow I have to alternate between the computer and real music several times before I get it right. Also, what I set the voices to be in PrintMusic makes a huge difference in how the finished piece sounds. For example if, in my counter point, I'm singing G D and playing D G, it sounds completely different voice-against-guitar (PrintMusic does not have a "mandolin" option--a serious oversight, really) than it does voice-against-violin. In the former arrangement I can hear the parts moving quite clearly, in the latter arrangement it just sounds like a repeated chord.
Not that it matters all that much as I don't plan to record the computer--played version, but it makes it easier to keep straight which part is doing what as I make changes to both.
Still enjoying Flight of the Godkin Griffin. This is darn good; I wish I had it in e-book or paper book form. I'm planning to try Spots the Space Marine next, but want to finish one story before starting the next.
