Trying to take it easy today, but thought I would clean up and organize the garage to get ready for the next step. I picked up a couple of pieces of plywood for the station templates, previously I traced out the stations into paper and bristle board paper and today I stated to transfer this to the plywood. I started by ripping the plywood in half to create four 2 foot by 8 foot pieces. Then using the square to ensure that the center line of the templates would be the center I copied the station images onto plywood. Now I need to double them up before cutting to make them uniform. I tried to cut out station 1 and 11 when I screwed two pieces of plywood together using the jigsaw. This did not go as well as I hoped, I think that the speed on the saw was too high and I buggered it up. So I them proceeded to bugger up the center station number 6, which may come back to haunt me when I need to buy another piece of plywood to finance that mistake.
Now I have to test out the variable speed idea on the jigsaw before trying to ruin another perfectly good station. Let you know how this goes, if it appears problematic i will have to take the plywood somewhere that I can access a bandsaw. I am going to call it a day..
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
3rd Post Strong back has been built
Well it has been a hell of a long time since my last post. Finally I took the two planks that I made down from the shelf. Having decided that i would not be making anything longer that a 19 foot canoe the planks that I had made 18 feet long I shortened to 17 feet.
Gil suggested that a cross brace could be added to prevent warping. I decided to cut 15 3/16 inch cross braces out of a piece of 2x6 and inserted them at 34 inch intervals between the two planks. This allowed me to clamp the planks together as I went to make sure that they were 18 inches wide on the outside the entire length of the strong back. I had previously cut the supports for the forms at 18 inches wide, but when I measured them out at 18 inch spacing I did so from the end of the planks. This meant that I had very little end of which to mount one of the end pieces of the forms. Therefore, I unscrewed the 2x4s and then found the center of the planks and worked from there making sure that the 18 inch spacing was correct.
I will take a couple of pictures the next time I am out in the garage to show you the strong back. Then I will have to pick up some plywood to start drawing out the forms before getting them ready to cut.
Cheers until next time, hopefully not such a long delay between inspiration this time.
Gil suggested that a cross brace could be added to prevent warping. I decided to cut 15 3/16 inch cross braces out of a piece of 2x6 and inserted them at 34 inch intervals between the two planks. This allowed me to clamp the planks together as I went to make sure that they were 18 inches wide on the outside the entire length of the strong back. I had previously cut the supports for the forms at 18 inches wide, but when I measured them out at 18 inch spacing I did so from the end of the planks. This meant that I had very little end of which to mount one of the end pieces of the forms. Therefore, I unscrewed the 2x4s and then found the center of the planks and worked from there making sure that the 18 inch spacing was correct.
I will take a couple of pictures the next time I am out in the garage to show you the strong back. Then I will have to pick up some plywood to start drawing out the forms before getting them ready to cut.
Cheers until next time, hopefully not such a long delay between inspiration this time.
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