A full day on the canoe today to start beveling keelson and stems. About half the day was spent making the screw in batten to go into my low angle plane. I needed to make a jig to hold a sliding chuck device which gave me exact perpendicular drilling capability.
I cut a square piece of thick ply and left a projected square bit in the middle to match the base on the sliding chuck stand. Then I clamped a piece of silver ash vertical against my work bench front beam. This will be the batten for screwing to the plane. I need to drill a 3/16th hole exactly vertical into this and exactly away from the edge to match where the screw hole is in the side of the plane. So I slide the ply base over the top of the ash batten until the drill bit in the chuck is exactly over the marked spot for the hole, then clamp the ply base to the bench and drill. The set up is shown below.
Here's the plane with batten screwed in as it will ride the keelson and riband. In this pic it screws flush to the plane but I ended up putting a nylock nut on the end of the screw to control the thread end length to stay constant at what's required to screw into the plane - it had started to reduce and the screw began to disappear into the batten.
So by the end of the day I have one side beveled pretty close to the required winding bevel - being careful to not cut into the centreline. Still lots more to do on the stems.
....and a nice satisfying pile of long spiral spruce shavings at the end of the day........
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