I decided to rebate the moulds to fit ribands to the markings for plank edges. I figure working on my own this will make fitting the planking easier on the full size boat. Whilst Iain Oughtred's book does not encourage this he is Ok with it if you fair the ribands right up to the stem. Here's the moulds below rebated to take the ribands.
I made another shop-made tool to help hacking out slots in the molds to get the ribands to sit in line with the mould edge as they twist along the hull. It's manual jig saw - cut the shape of the top of the blade into a flat piece of brass, then added two other flat peices either side, plus mahogony handles and through bolts and voila - a hand made hand jig saw - a jigamething.
And after a lot of fiddling and a few broken ribands we have something starting to look like a boat.
No comments:
Post a Comment