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Looks good there "Honey Buns" I'm watching to see if I make any mistakes on my builds.
Bob
Bob
Well great, now the “Founder” is watching. My first mistake was not having you build it!Looks good there "Honey Buns" I'm watching to see if I make any mistakes on my builds.
Bob
Thanks Chuck! Keep plugging away! Ask questions if needed.I have been watching closely to the build and it is looking more impressive each post.
I fear dentists almost as much as doing taxes.
Back to my build I go. CAM
Lookin Vary classic Fast. Cant wait till she reaches the water.Starting to resemble a vintage GP Lauterbach hull.
Yeah Frank I like working with wood or I wouldn’t go this route for sure. Building definitely requires patience, and whether you build from scratch, build from a kit, or build from a pre made fiberglass hull, its all cool. I’ve done all of it, but the wood boats are the most rewarding, My girlfriend, whom I’m building this for, mentioned that the boat was being built from scratch. I told her that I’d normally call it building from scratch when you start from slabs of plywood and sticks and set about to cutting out your own parts, so I was trying to get her to see the difference. She said, “To me, it’s building from scratch”. I thought that was kind of amusing. However you want to look at it, it’s fun and all the work is worth it.I gained a lot of experience building RC planes before the ARF craze hit. Building light is a must with aircraft, so I learned all I could about CA glues.
Thin Zap is great for building tight joints with
good penetration as the glue is like water and wicks into the wood fibers. I used it a lot for fabric hinges on control surfaces, it worked great for those.
I don't use "kicker" with thin CA as it is too "hot" and can swell up the glue joint and make sharp inside corners hard to fit the next piece into place.
I can see on these wood boat builds that it would be very useful to Zap the frame together and then use thinned epoxy to seal and strengthen it prior to sheeting.
30 minute epoxy mixed with sanded sawdust or micro balloons for critical and wide gap joints.
I've been wanting to build a wood boat kit, as I miss the "building from scratch" part of the hobby... when I was flying planes, I really liked building kits, it was a very rewarding part of the hobby. I also built several cut/plan kits from magazines articles etc... those were fun to build !!
No I’ll do strategic clamping. I’ve got veneer applied to my top decks and I don’t want to put holes in that. I put both decks on a once on my Backlash by taking some time to plan out the clamping and doing a trial run. That worked out well.Rich, I see some people either nail or screw down the decks when they glue them on, and then pull out the hardware and fill the holes.
Any plans to do this ?
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