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Re: Strip: kayak seat *PIC*
By:Etienne Muller - ireland
Date: 1/29/2011, 10:46 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: kayak seat (Al Edie)

: Hi Etienne,

: Did you make the fittings holding your shock cord/perimeter line?
: They look great. If you made them, did you document your
: process?

: Best regards,

: Allan

Hi Allan

The picture shows a piece before sanding the corners off. The one pictured is from an older batch. I make them a little lower profile these days.

I used mahogany in this case and just rout two grooves into a long strip, fill the grooves with thickened epoxy and plastic sleeves, round off with a radius bit, cut to length - and sand the corners off with a belt-sander.

Seeing it written down like that I realize it is quite a lot of work for a tiny object. they look good on the boat though.

I do something similar for my hatch hold-downs on one side and on top, but with only one groove, and hooks for the other side.

See next post

Et

Messages In This Thread

Strip: kayak seat
Nick Riccardi -- 1/27/2011, 6:39 pm
Re: Strip: kayak seat
Bill Hamm -- 1/27/2011, 6:46 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 1/27/2011, 7:04 pm
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Damian wentzel -- 1/27/2011, 7:32 pm
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george jung -- 1/28/2011, 12:10 am
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Charles Robinson -- 1/27/2011, 8:07 pm
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Phillip Taylor -- 1/28/2011, 11:39 am
Re: Strip: kayak seat *PIC*
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 1/28/2011, 5:40 am
Re: Strip: kayak seat
Al Edie -- 1/28/2011, 10:31 am
Re: Strip: kayak seat *PIC*
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 1/29/2011, 10:46 am
Re: Strip: kayak seat *NM* *PIC*
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 1/29/2011, 10:48 am
Re: Strip: kayak seat *NM* *PIC*
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 1/29/2011, 10:50 am
Re: Strip: And my paddle-park *NM* *PIC*
Etienne Muller - ireland -- 1/29/2011, 10:52 am
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Al Edie -- 1/29/2011, 12:57 pm
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Bryan Kapteyn -- 2/9/2011, 4:01 pm