Cutting strips and routering beads and coves

Opps forgot to mention buying some white pine and then ripping it into 1/4 inch strips.  Then these were routered to have beads and coves on each strip.

 

Templates Completed

Well my thoughts about the oscillating speed of the jigsaw was correct.  I reset the oscillation to 1 and the speed to 1, only to slowly increase the speed to 3 and this allowed me to more accurately.  I cut slightly outside the line to ensure that I could later fair everything up with the rasp.  Here are some of the forms after being cut out.

Once cut I clamped the matching pairs together and then fared them up with the rasp, only later to clamp them all together a paired set at a time to ensure that they were all flush.

Once these were done to what I thought was as accurately as i could make them I double checked them to the original template printout and they were good.  So on to setting them up on the strongback.  I did this and did not have the camera with me, so what you see below is after I had them mounted and centered with a line from the 1st and 11th template I installed the others.  Then came the forming of the stems with the rasp, which took some elbow grease and liquid refreshments.  Then they too were installed on the strongback, and when they were I then leveled all the templates and ran a temporary wooden strip along the top.  What you see below is the forms taped and the first strip to get a idea of the sheer line of the canoe.

Then I started to add the first sheer strip that was screwed to the templates, with the new strips added being glued together and stapled to the templates.