Sawing strips

 Today I started sawing the strips. I use  a hand-held circular saw with a fine-cut  thin blade and a homemade cutting support. Strips are 5.1 x 17.5 mm

Bought som planks

Were in the wood store and chosed and bought planks. Red cedar 145x17,5mm 7 pcs 4,90m
Will soon be transformed into 480m 5x17.5mm strips.
In addition, a plank of 145x45mm 4m to make paddles




Planks delivered to building site.

Templates ready

All 15 templates are now ready. First rough saw a few mm off the line. Then sanding to exact measurements



Rough sawing



Sanding



All templates ready

Templats under construction

Bought a 12mm board, so just draw the cardboard pieces on the board and cut it out.



The contour is transferred from the cardboard



The board template ready for cutting

Bought the plan

 

Bought drawing via Ashe's website  Downloaded the PDF and printed it. 4 sheets with 8 A3 prints each. 32st A3:s to be merged with 100% precision. It is important that the alignment of the templates is correct. Both in scale and that the joints are precise-

All lines are transferred using a needle to an underlying carton sheet. Approximately 150-300 sticks per template.

The points on the cardboard sheet are connected with pen and still hand. Then the clipping path is cut out.

This is repeated until all 13  templates + front and back template are cut and done.

Full-scale writing printed and taped together. Ready for transfer to cardboard sheet.

 

After a couple of hours and tired fingers, all templates are ready. The next step is to draw the templates on the 12mm board. After that, the templates are sawn and grinded to exact shape.

 

All cardboard templates are ready. Just transfer to the board.

New canoe...

Time to build a new canoe. Found a delicious minimalist design on Ashes Stillwater Boats. Ashes Solo Day. A nicesolo canoe for longer trips with some packing. 4.57x0.74m about 15kg. Line drawing and some pictures from Ashe's website.