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Re: Semi-tortured ply option
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/5/2010, 12:40 am
In Response To: Re: Semi-tortured ply option (Alex Ferguson)

: Once the parts are glued to length, yes, two instead of 4.

: I recommend using a simple jig to build in so alignment has to be
: right. The rocker and shape is forced to be what it should be
: so.... ?? I also recommend that the sides be cut longer than
: necessary so they don't get into the situation often seen with
: CLC boat questions forum, "My sides are too short, what do
: I do?" The length datum is taken from the stern.

: Ply is ply. Do you mean chine all the way to the ends like CLC
: kayaks vs the chine merging? If so, that's how mine go anyway.
: The chine vanishes about the same place as this Glen-L method. I
: always use a "rolled" deck (tortured? Not really, just
: curved all the way, bow to just about the stern where I put a
: short flat deck for the rudder to land on and makes it neater
: for the cables to emerge.

: ???

: Sounds about the dimensions of the kayak I'm paddling at present -
: 5 metres x 0.51 metres.

: Alex

Plywood will "easily" bend in one direction at a time, torturing plywood is making it curve in two or more directions at once.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 9/1/2010, 4:41 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Brian Scarborough -- 9/2/2010, 8:54 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 9/3/2010, 4:32 pm
more harshly interrogated plywood *PIC*
Will Clarke -- 9/3/2010, 8:21 pm
Re: more harshly interrogated plywood
Bill Hamm -- 9/4/2010, 12:57 am
Re: more harshly interrogated plywood *NM* *PIC*
Will Clarke -- 9/3/2010, 8:22 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2010, 5:21 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Alex Ferguson -- 9/4/2010, 11:37 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Niven Paine -- 9/5/2010, 3:59 am
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Bill Hamm -- 9/5/2010, 12:44 am
Semi-tortured ply option
Brian Nystrom -- 9/2/2010, 12:33 pm
Re: Semi-tortured ply option
Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2010, 12:46 am
Re: Semi-tortured ply option
Alex Ferguson -- 9/2/2010, 6:16 pm
Re: Semi-tortured ply option
Brian Nystrom -- 9/3/2010, 10:40 am
Re: Semi-tortured ply option
Alex Ferguson -- 9/4/2010, 11:29 pm
Re: Semi-tortured ply option
Bill Hamm -- 9/5/2010, 12:40 am
Re: Semi-tortured ply option
Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2010, 12:50 am
Re: Semi-tortured ply option
Charlie -- 9/2/2010, 1:46 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Alex Ferguson -- 9/2/2010, 4:46 am
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Charlie -- 9/2/2010, 1:39 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 9/1/2010, 4:42 pm
Re: S&G: Old tortured ply measurements uploaded
Bill Hamm -- 9/2/2010, 2:04 am