> I hope that I can help some with your question. I had the same
> type of cocern when stripping mine. First of all, my boat has internal
> stems, and I found that in order to correctly bevel both the strips
> and the stem to the proper angle and still have some stem left nearly
> impossible for my tiny mind. So this is what I did....you may or may
> not choose to try this at home...I beveled my internal stem and chose
> not to bevel my strips, after all my strips were attached I sanded
> them flat (perpendicular to the keel) I applied a steam bent black
> walnut external stem. Its all very nice to look at. For very good
> pictures of this check out Ted Moores' book "canoecraft".
> Seriously, I thought beveling the strips a terrible waste of time,
> the final radius of the stem of the boat should be around 1/2 inch
> anyways just be able to get the glass 'round it and also to avoid
> torpedoing someone, and if you attempt to round over the beveled strips
> you get garbage and have to attach an external stem anyways. my .02
>

> jim