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Re: Strip: Keel Strip *PIC*
By:Etienne Muller
Date: 4/30/2012, 2:58 am
In Response To: Strip: Keel Strip (Mike)

: OK I am onto the bottom of the boat now. I want to put a keel strip
: down each side of the keel. So when these strips come to the bow
: stem should they lay straight? I would have to trim both edges.
: The lower edge to join the last strip on the side and then trim
: what is sticking out past the stem. Or make a bend right at the
: end so the Keel strip follows the stem? And just trim the lower
: edge to match last strip.

: I better go watch that video again.

: Mike

I bevel the strips until I get to the last four or five feet of the hull and then I just butt them corner to corner as the angle goes from obtuse to acute at the ends.

When they are set I flatten the ends out with a plane and glue on laminates to finish the ends.

This is more or less what most of us do I think

Et

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Keel Strip
Mike -- 4/29/2012, 6:56 pm
Re: Strip: Keel Strip
Mike -- 4/29/2012, 7:25 pm
Re: Strip: Keel Strip
Paul Davies -- 4/29/2012, 7:29 pm
Re: Strip: Keel Strip
Bill Hamm -- 4/30/2012, 2:30 am
Re: Strip: Keel Strip *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 4/30/2012, 2:58 am
Re: Strip: Keel Strip *NM* *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 4/30/2012, 2:59 am
Re: Strip: Keel Strip *NM* *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 4/30/2012, 3:02 am
Re: Strip: Keel Strip *NM* *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 4/30/2012, 3:03 am