After weekend update

The build continues. Another few strips mounted. The stems aligned perfectly. Just the bottom part left. More measurements and adjusting as the strips must be aligned perfectly in both ends.

Just the bottom part left

Another weekend in the canoe workshop.

This weekend I spent most of the time helping my friend with his canoe and kayak. Still got time to add 4 more strips to my Solo day.



Most of the side ready. about half of the strips in place.

Another evening in the workshop

Ckecked the adustments from yesterday. Looks perfect. I had to put a crossbar between the hullsides to keep the hullside tight to the form. Also made a filler from fine cedar grind dust and tightbond III glue. Mix until it feels like peanut butter. Makes small gaps invisible. Finished the evening by glueing another strip to the hull.

Crossbar to keep the hullsides tight to the form

Cedar dust and glue makes a perfect filler

Another strip in place

Some adjustments

Found that the hull tended to be a bit convex at form 2-3 and 12-13. There was a 4mm play between hull and form. Made reinforcement cleats and glued into place. These will be removed once the hull is laminated on the outside.

Reinforcement cleats to strighten the hull side

Perfect fit to the form again

Looks nice after a light sanding

Another day with strips.

Just put some more strips in place. The strips fits nice with the cove and bead. No gaps and just some sanding to get a nice surface.

A couple of strips ready

Tested a light sanding. looks good.

Some more strips added

Glueing strips continued and some new tools

Today I added some more strips. As I am a lazy person I am more than happy to construct tools that helps in the building process.
Clamps to hold the strip tightly to the form and a clamp to keep the strips together. Simple design but works fine. Rubber cork for friction and elasticy. The strip clamp have an o-ring to protect the edges of the cove side of the strip. Rubber cork is usually made for gaskets.
Also made a change to the front form. As I make a stemless construction I decided to make the front and rear form i two pieces with a thin spacer running half way through. This way I get a nice guide for the saw when cutting exat angle of the strip.

Clamp to hold strip to the form

Clamp from below

Clamp to keep strips together between forms

Strip clamp with o-ring to protect edges of the strip. Rubber cork for
elasticy and friction

Another view. 

Clamp to hold the strip tightly against form. Again rubber cork for friction.
Note the rubber cork inlay in the center piece. That i to get movement
when tightend

Another angle

Slotted end forms to guide the saw

Add captionSaw in action. Easy to line up.

Perfect joint. Note the rubber cork on the plastic clamp. Sits firmly to about 45
degrees angle. Original plastic just snaps off.

First strips in place

Glued the first strips today. Also made a shelf ontop of the hull where i can have the strips ready.

Build of the hull started

After final adjustments of forms the two first strips are i place. just about 80 left to glue in place.

First two strips in place

Easy to line up with a string in the submerged slot

Stemless ends. Note the slot in center of form. This will allow for exact
alignment of the thin saw used for cutting the strips at exact angle.

All strips ready and all forms i place on the strongback.

Finally the arctic cold went away, and the temperature allowed us to finally grind the last stripes.
Also mounted and aligned all forms to the strongback. Next step is to start glueing strips on the hull :)

Forms mounted on strongback