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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Lashing vs glued dowels or scre
By:MattGeerts
Date: 8/21/2014, 3:40 pm

John, thanks for your input. Glue/screw or glue/peg are both plenty strong, so I'm not concerned there. However, your point about do-overs is a HUGE deal for me. I'm human and I screw up and when I do I don't want to have to break out 7 epoxy joints because I screwed one up. Even if lashing a boat took two hours longer than glue/screw, it would take more than 2 hours to fix a single mistake where a lashing mistake is fixed in under 2 minutes - snip, lash, fixed.

I think lashing saves me time, particularly when I goof up and need to do a "do over".
Plus, screws or dowels into the side of plywood are not all that strong. Four strands of lashing will lift over 200 pounds.
So in my humble opinion lashing is a better way to join pieces of a SOF with plywood pieces.

John VB


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Skin-on-Frame: Lashing vs glued dowels or screws
MattGeerts -- 8/21/2014, 11:58 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Lashing vs glued dowels or scre
john vanburen -- 8/21/2014, 3:27 pm
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MattGeerts -- 8/21/2014, 3:40 pm
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Robert W -- 8/21/2014, 3:34 pm
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MattGeerts -- 8/21/2014, 3:44 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/21/2014, 5:32 pm
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Peter Lord -- 8/22/2014, 4:39 am
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MattGeerts -- 8/22/2014, 8:39 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/22/2014, 4:59 pm
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Robert W -- 8/22/2014, 7:52 am
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Peter Lord -- 8/22/2014, 9:15 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 8/22/2014, 9:53 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/24/2014, 12:46 am
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Mike Hanks -- 8/24/2014, 1:54 am
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Ben Alexander -- 8/26/2014, 3:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/26/2014, 4:12 pm
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George Grosh -- 8/28/2014, 1:42 pm