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Curved Planes
By:Mike Scarborough
Date: 2/4/2001, 10:40 am
In Response To: Re: Fear of Fairing (Eric Schade (shearwater boats))

Planing concave surfaces used to be significant problem in the old days of wooden boat building. They did it a lot when shaping the back of the planks on a carvel planked boat. The old time boatbuilders made all their own planes and typically used a wide variety. They carved them out of solid blocks of wood. The only metal in them was the plane iron its self. A good reference on this topic is "Building Classic Small Craft" by John Gardner. He has a whole chapter about boatbuilder's planes, including "backing-out" planes for shaping the concave backs of the planks. Sounds like a good winter project to me.

Messages In This Thread

Fear of Fairing
Richard Boyle -- 2/1/2001, 6:37 pm
Re: Fear of Fairing
Richard Boyle -- 2/4/2001, 3:31 pm
Re: Fear of Fairing
Eric Schade (shearwater boats) -- 2/2/2001, 6:28 pm
Curved Planes
Mike Scarborough -- 2/4/2001, 10:40 am
Re: Fear of Fairing
Dwight -- 2/1/2001, 9:14 pm
Re: Fear of Fairing
Ben Staley -- 2/1/2001, 8:43 pm
Re: Fear of Fairing
George Cushing -- 2/1/2001, 7:35 pm