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Re: Stapleless Stripping book info?
By:Bob Marr
Date: 3/12/1999, 8:00 am
In Response To: Stapleless Stripping book info? (Paul Jacobson)

Amazon.com has it for $27.97 (30% discount). For some reason I couldn't locate it with their search engine using the author's name, but it came right up using a title search. It's published by Schiffer Publishing, 1998 ISBN 0764305379

Bob

> Can you post the contact information on this book for those who may be
> interested in getting a copy (like me): Publisher, their address if
> available, copyright date, etc. would help. ISBN number would be nice,
> too. Do you know a supplier who would sell this through mailorder?

> Why bother with the extra wood strip? Seems to me there are a few options
> that would work as well.

> A) Drill holes about 1/2 inch in from the outside edge of the forms. Plug
> a hole with a dowel rod wherever needed and clamp to that. When the strip
> is securely glued, remove the clamp and reposition the dowel rod in the
> next hole. Tap it out with a hammer if any glue has dripped on it.

> B) for get the holes and dowel rods. Get some small cheap 'c' clamps and
> tighten them on your forms where necessary, then clamp to them with the
> spring clamps to hold the strips in place. If you use webbing rope you
> thread it through the big 'c' opening in the clamp. If you need additional
> side pressure you can rotate the 'c' clamp to push against the edge of the
> strip (CAREFULLY so you don't mash the bead or cove face) You can use
> webbing, rope or bungie cord to maintain that edge pressuure by looping
> the cord through the 'c' part of the clamp and pulling it to some anchor
> point.

> C) use 'c' clamps to hold short waste strips to the forms to create those
> lips that you want to clamp to. You can move them around to wherever they
> may be needed. They can be reused, and it is faster and cheaper than
> cutting the full length lip from a large sheet of plywood.

> On the other hand, staples are still fast, easy and cheap. I've never had
> a person complain about the rows of specks from the staple holes, and in
> fact it was an easy way to show the curious throngs how I'd built the
> boat. People can understand that the boat was stapled together. It is a
> simple concept that works well.

> Of all the *MANY* passionate discussions on this board about relative
> strengths of various processesI can not recal everhearing one suggestion
> that using staples compromised strength to the slightest degree. That in
> itself is amazing, particularly considering the heat that topics like this
> frequently generate. Hopefully I have not opened a can of worms by
> mentioning this.

> Hope these ideas help.

> Paul Jacobson

Messages In This Thread

Stapleless Stripping
Mac Buhler -- 3/9/1999, 3:09 am
Re: Stapleless Stripping
eric schade (shearwater-boats) -- 3/25/1999, 3:02 pm
Stapleless Stripping book info?
Paul Jacobson -- 3/12/1999, 6:44 am
Re: Stapleless Stripping book info?
Bob Marr -- 3/12/1999, 8:00 am
Re: Stapleless Stripping
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 3/9/1999, 2:48 pm