Planing and Forming

We spent a day last weekend cleaning up the forms and getting all of the little bits together for mounting the forms/stations to the strongback. We also had to mark accurate center-lines on everything... it all takes time.

I got all of mine set-up and we got a few of Leslies done. It is kinda nice to have them setup because I can see the final shape of the kayak now, and like what I see. For those who are actually awake at this point, the forms are meant to be upside down... you build the hull first and then the deck.

 One 'warm' [above freezing, just!] evening I decided to do the planing of the cedar. It took me a couple of hours to get everything down to 3/4 thick. This is just the Atlantic 'white' cedar... you can see some variation in color from white to yellow to pinkish. I guess i'd hoped for a little more uniformity but it is what it is...

 And I generated a little sawdust!

A little clean-up to do yet... did I mention that I really hate the smell of cedar! I made a few cigar humidors out of spanish cedar last year and have not been able to stand the smell since.

Until the next update... John