Date: 1/14/2003, 6:53 pm
: My teenage son and I are each building a kayak. I am building a Great Awk and
: he is building a Guillemot. I am a little further than he is, but progress
: is being made. Or, I should say, progress was being made. I screwed up and
: we must start over on his boat.
: We are using half-width strips to work our way around the chines of the
: Guillemot. We have 5 regular strips leading up from the shear line to the
: chines and then switch to narrow strips. They work great at working across
: the chine. However, the problem I had was in using these strips at the bow
: and stern. I need to bend the strips to follow the curve of the boat and
: twist the strips to line them up with the previous strip and the stem. The
: twisting is the problem. The narrow strips don't clamp very well and there
: is little width to staple. In my screw-up, the strips un-twisted while the
: glue was drying. This caused the strips to be grossly out of alignment.
: Since relatively little work had been invested so far, I didn't want to
: "work around" my error. We made the collective decision to strip
: off the strips already put on the boat and start over.
Are you absolutely sure you "have" to? All is _not_ lost.
Stick with what is already working well around the turn of the chine. For the ends, use some soaked rags and a household iron or heat gun to loosen the glue. Use the heat gun or rags and iron and "steam" in the desired amount of twist. Reglue. If you use a heat gun, it will even reset the glue quickly when you reglue.
: The problem is this. I don't know how to avoid the problem again. I sure
: could use some wise counsel from the members.
Use heat to soften the lignins in the wood, when they reset (cool), you should have most of your twist or bending established. Don't try to make the glue joint or staples hold all those twisting forces.
Don't fret, there are plenty of workarounds, and no need to throw away your efforts to this point. Also consider using "cheater strips" as Nick describes. Not dealing with curvature and twist at the same time is of great benefit.
Shawn
Messages In This Thread
- Strip: A screw-up with narrow strips--help needed
C Clark -- 1/14/2003, 6:08 pm- Re: Strip: A screw-up with narrow strips--help nee
Wes Ostertag -- 1/15/2003, 9:45 pm- Re: Strip: A screw-up with narrow strips--help nee
Malcolm Schweizer -- 1/15/2003, 12:13 pm- Re: Strip: A screw-up with narrow strips--help nee *Pic*
Lennie Hawkins -- 1/15/2003, 12:23 am- Re: Strip: I bought lots of those clamps!!! *NM*
Steve Frederick -- 1/15/2003, 5:08 pm
- Re: Strip: An opportunity with narrow strips
Shawn Baker -- 1/14/2003, 6:53 pm- Re: Strip: A screw-up with narrow strips--help nee
Dave McKinney -- 1/14/2003, 6:51 pm - Re: Strip: A screw-up with narrow strips--help nee
- Re: Strip: A screw-up with narrow strips--help nee