First we made some saw horses you could park my truck on. They are going to be subject to some abuse over the course of the build process so need to be pretty rigid. They also need to be convertible for slings when the hull has been stripped and it is time for the deck stripping. We worked as a team running 8 of them off of our production line made from plywood and 2x6 scraps mostly from our house repairs last month.
Then came the strong-backs. A rigid box made from construction grade plywood about 6" square, mine 18' 6" long, Leslie's 16' long. The 2 of us sliced 6" strips of 1/2" ply, stapled them into box sections and then spliced them together to give us the required lengths.
One of the things these photos really don't show is the size of these things... 18' 6" pretty much fills the length of the garage...
You can also see from these photos that we have our stations/forms ready to go... Leslie wants to make alterations to hers so there may be a little more work involved for her yet.
What's next? We need to mount the forms/stations on the strong-back at the required spacing and heights. That will take a day or so for the 2 set-up and will need both of us working together I think.
We need to go get our cedar. I ordered some from a localish saw mill and should be able to pick it up next weekend. We'll then need to cut it into 1/4" and 3/16" thick strips which will be a big job... pushing 20' lengths of cedar through the table saw will not be fun. Then the 1/4" strips will be bead and cove cut on the router so that they 'lock' together. I need to build the router set-up for that yet so that we can feed the strips through and cut the profile in each edge with 1 pass... i have the 2 routers that will be needed for that, just need to build some simple mini router tables with feather boards etc to keep things running smoothly. According to our designer it is worth spending the time to get these set-up correctly, the strips really do need to be precision cut for them to work correctly.
- JVK
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