Hey Jerry,
Good suggestion and reminder. Yup that is the other way (or one of the other ways of doing it. Part of what makes this BBS great, is learning everyone else's great shop tips and best how-to's and the comparisons of different ways of doing things. For my own self, I have found that the little line down the seam caused by tape to be more eye catching then the wavy cut I put in bias strips. Its a little trick I learned from Rick Morgan. He actually uses pinking sheers in part to keep down fraying, and in part to chop up the visual line. The converse of course is, I get more seams across the sheer, and I guess they probably starts with the same observability I find in tape. In the end, it all comes out in the final sanding/planing. Both ways get sanded or planed into the surface of the boat. Truth is, while I use bias, I still start by knocking the tops of the seams with the finger plane and then sand everything in from there. Good reminder thanks.

Building more............. until I can shovel less snow
!RUSS