Mark Rendelman

Well today was a milestone for any of us stitch and glue boat builders I was able to go 3D this took some work but with the help of a neighbor and my wife and the winch of my side x side we did it. My wife’s first words were it looks like a boat, everything went well and the panels lined up evenly but I do have issues with the #1 bulkhead that will be addressed when I come back from California to visit my grandson.

Well things have moved along nicely I glued the stringers on all 4 hull panels using a tent with a space heater over night worked out nicely, after removing the blocks and rounding the corners I am ready to glue the side and bottom panels, after dry fitting a pair of panels together I did have some problems with the joint at the bow. No matter how much I tried to bring them together they would not tighten together. looking past the stitch seam the area just behind was butting tight and not allowing the stitch seam to come together so I removed a little material with a block plane to bring it together after trying this process several times I got it as close as the rest of the panels allowed because at this point the first square cut stitch was hitting hard against its matching notch. After blocking the stitch seam down with the glass tape and epoxy I moved my attention to the 95 11/16 “ dimension at the back of the boat, now that I have done it I found that the stitch seam at the bow really does set the distance at the back of the boat.with just a little pressure I was able to bring the 95 11/16”%to 95 3/4” and that’s all I’ll say about that. Tented the work area and left a heat lamp on to keep it warm. During the previous days I did work the transom center doubler and bulkhead #1 doublers in anticipation of going 3D in a couple of days.

Yes thank you but that’s not what I needed help with I need to know how to post and not to open a new topic but list under another post like the others I see that have multiple pages under one post

Hay frank I need help with the forum could you call me 5092587238

Mark yes I understand that I will need to use epoxy for the glassing and fillets and I am going to tent the boat once it is in the cradle the tent will be made of 6mil clear plastic 10 ‘ wide by 24’ long 8’ high. I am working in a 40’x48’ shop with 14’ wallsI do have a large wood burning stove in the shop and can get up to 68 while iam out their working it the evening time when iam not out their to keep the stove hot and it cools down to 40 this stops the cure of the epoxy to snails pace but to glue the stringers I thought that I could use the plastic resin glue it will cure much faster in the cold

Well it been a few days since my last post and I have glued the hull panels together and I have attached the stringers for dry fit, I know that most of you use thickened epoxy to glue your boats, but due to temperature I would like to use plastic resin wood glue because it will cure at colder temperatures. My question is is this glue strong enough for boats I have used it for years to build furniture with no problems. I believe that this is what was used before the invent of epoxy. mark

Yes I hope to connect with the boat owner so if you are reading this write me also yes 5gallons is a lot of mess but gravel is abundant on my property so use what you have right

Today is the first full day of building my CS20MK3 after waiting what seemed like months to get the kit I did an inventory of the parts yesterday and started to glue the hull panels together, this will take me several days to complete

Oh sorry I am building a core sound 20 mk3

Mark cs20mk3 #24 well to make a pun my ship has come in, today my kit was delivered and I couldn’t wait to open it up. Started to take inventory of all I ordered, boy that’s a lot of wood & I have only just begun, there are wood parts all over but after I run the inventory I will group the parts by assembly, which will help. Day 1 of the build.

Glad to hear that everyone is ok and that your homes and shop survived the big one of 2019 hope everything returns to normal as soon as possible

Thanks for the information I will be poring the lead from the bottom and I went ahead and baked the mold at 350 degrees for an hour stunk up the house with the smell of hot ply-wood oh well that’s boat building

I made my greensand mold today but I can’t find out how long to bake the mold or at what temperature any one who has any information on this process please reply to this post I need the help I don’t want hot lead blowing out at me

Spent the morning cutting up the 3/4x3/4 stock that I will use for the build also cut the 1x3/4 stringers then set to task on how I would cut the scarf joints. Went back to the house and watched a few videos just to get an idea, back to the shop got out my table leg taper jig and a few clamps and made my setup the clamps hold the parts safely and it only takes about 90 seconds to clamp and run a part thru the saw perfect joints every time.for me this method was the most accurate and fastest way about it.still had time left at the end of the day to glue material for the port light trim rings to see how I was going to make them.

No handle on the 20 mklll oops lever