Joe Feager

I'm installing the hatch material while waiting on the 10" to be delivered.  The 8" measures 7 1/2" dia.  Can I assume (bad word) the 10" ID to be 1/2" less also?

After getting a good start I was pretty happy.  Then I started inserting frames.  Gunwales and keel stay nice and fair until I insert frame 5'4".  See the pic's.  I have checked frame 5'4 and 4'4 1/2 and they are almost perfect.  I found on my paper where I marked 1 15/16 instead on 1 13/16 on one side only.  I"m thinking I can overcome that without a new frame.  Hopefully you can see how the keel is not fair any longer and in the other pic the gunwale is pushe up off the notch on frame 4'4 1/2 when frame 5'4 is inserted.

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Jeff,

Tried to get in to place an order IE can't display your website.     Tried 3-4 times.  Will give it a go tomorrow morning.

Joe

What is wrong with this?  I had envisioned the gunwales going past frame 1' and lashing to the stern stem.  That is not going to happen.

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Jeff makes it look easy in his video.  I have fought in 3 wraps so far with glue running all over the place.  Got some splits trying to bend too.  Trying to heat on a plastic sheet doesn't work either.  If I do this again I'll work something out.  Glad I saw the video about 3/32" and didn't try 3/16" like in the book. 

My band saw does ok but not the best so I took my thickness planer down to minimum and barely got the 3/32"  Had to almost burn the wood to get it around the front section.  I'll be using some System 3 Epoxy before I'm done but I don think it is going to hold up.