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catsittingstillThe seat is made, and painted with epoxy as of Sunday, so it has a few days to go before I can varnish and cane. Plus I have to call the cane place again and make sure the artificial cane really was ordered, or it won't come in time. I have cut the ends of the seat to length, and partially angled them so the seat will sit lower in the bottom of the boat.
I have cut and shaped and sanded the knees (a cabinet scraper works great for the last bit of shaping/sanding, by the way), drilled the holes and fastened them to the thwarts with temporary screws (with a piece of heavy plastic between) and epoxied the knees to the hull-and-underside-of-the-gunwales. (Which is why the heavy plastic, so the squeezeout doesn't fasten the thwarts permanently to the knees or the gunwales.)
I have finished chamfering the top and bottom of the outwales and chamfered (like rounding over but not really round--the corner is just eased by a little 45 degree flat) the top of one inwale, which I couldn't do until the thwarts were in because you want the chamfer to stop where the thwart meets the inwale.
I still need to chamfer the top of the other inwale (it is highly unlikely I will mess with the bottoms of the inwales--it would pretty much require turning the canoe upside down and crawling under there with a chisel and a headlamp to do twenty six odd feet of inwale on my knees and it just doesn't seem very worth it. I could turn the canoe 90 degrees (on its side, and bend over 26 feet of inwale, but---ow. If I'd *really* been planning ahead and knew exactly where the thwarts were going before I put the inwales in, I could have pre-chamfered the undersides before I epoxied them in the boat.
But really, it doesn't seem that important. I don't need perfection; I need a boat. By--two and a half weeks from now. Aaaagh!
Anyway once I'm done chamfering I sand with 220 grit (bought a whole new package because it fills up/wears out pretty fast) then tape up and paint the gunwales with epoxy. Maybe I'll get to that today.
I also need to make and fit the rails that will hold the seat ever so slightly off the bottom. I would get some suitable hardwood for them but Jeffries is closed for the Fourth of July week and won't reopen until Tuesday of next week. Everybody needs a vacation sometime and I hope they enjoy theirs and in the meantime, softwood will have to do. Structurally it worked fine in Constance, but it looks a bit funny. But I don't need perfection; I need a boat. By two and a half weeks from now. Aaaagh!
And next time I put thwarts in with knees, it would really be smarter not to shape the undersides of the thwarts until they're fastened to the knees. That way I could have the shapes flow into each other better. I don't know why I didn't think of that before, but there it is.
I have cut and shaped and sanded the knees (a cabinet scraper works great for the last bit of shaping/sanding, by the way), drilled the holes and fastened them to the thwarts with temporary screws (with a piece of heavy plastic between) and epoxied the knees to the hull-and-underside-of-the-gunwales. (Which is why the heavy plastic, so the squeezeout doesn't fasten the thwarts permanently to the knees or the gunwales.)
I have finished chamfering the top and bottom of the outwales and chamfered (like rounding over but not really round--the corner is just eased by a little 45 degree flat) the top of one inwale, which I couldn't do until the thwarts were in because you want the chamfer to stop where the thwart meets the inwale.
I still need to chamfer the top of the other inwale (it is highly unlikely I will mess with the bottoms of the inwales--it would pretty much require turning the canoe upside down and crawling under there with a chisel and a headlamp to do twenty six odd feet of inwale on my knees and it just doesn't seem very worth it. I could turn the canoe 90 degrees (on its side, and bend over 26 feet of inwale, but---ow. If I'd *really* been planning ahead and knew exactly where the thwarts were going before I put the inwales in, I could have pre-chamfered the undersides before I epoxied them in the boat.
But really, it doesn't seem that important. I don't need perfection; I need a boat. By--two and a half weeks from now. Aaaagh!
Anyway once I'm done chamfering I sand with 220 grit (bought a whole new package because it fills up/wears out pretty fast) then tape up and paint the gunwales with epoxy. Maybe I'll get to that today.
I also need to make and fit the rails that will hold the seat ever so slightly off the bottom. I would get some suitable hardwood for them but Jeffries is closed for the Fourth of July week and won't reopen until Tuesday of next week. Everybody needs a vacation sometime and I hope they enjoy theirs and in the meantime, softwood will have to do. Structurally it worked fine in Constance, but it looks a bit funny. But I don't need perfection; I need a boat. By two and a half weeks from now. Aaaagh!
And next time I put thwarts in with knees, it would really be smarter not to shape the undersides of the thwarts until they're fastened to the knees. That way I could have the shapes flow into each other better. I don't know why I didn't think of that before, but there it is.
