? I used to hang around in a boat building shop as a teenager, hoping to be ? allowed to sweep the floor. I did alot of watching from the side lines. ? The boatbuilders were generaly working on large yachts. The double/ Triple ? diagonal strip method was the prefered choice of construction. One of the ? tools used to make sure that the strip being fitted was exactly mated to ? the last strip, was a router fitted with a thin strip of formica on the ? sole glued parallel to the direction of travel that ensured that the bit ? was a set distance from the strip that the was to be fitted against. The ? new strip was tacked to the hull/ form about 2? away from the last ? piece laid down and the router was run down the inside of the gap, the ? strip was then unfastened and moved over to be permanently glued/fastened ? to the hull. The wastage was kept to a minimum. Thus the now fitted strip ? could be mated up to its neibour with a very close fit. The strips used ? were 1/4 inch thick and about 6? wide at a maximum. NZ Kauri. A ? variation of the dremel method. Some of these yachts were Epoxied and ? finished to a very high varnished standard. A bit of ingenuity might come ? up with a jig that could cut the Cove and Bead exactly on the boat. What ? do you reckon?? Regards Don. Don

Hi Don

You're talking abt fine wordworking by fine woodworkers - I'm sure someone like that could do something here but it would still take time to set up the top strip in a fixed location, etc, etc,. My comment about the dremel is more about the tool than the technique. I'm doing a bunch of routing using the dremel router base and it's a pc of shzt. Where it's possible I use a larger router but not for bevelling.

-mick