> I'll be starting to bevel the sheer edges one my Pygmy Coho tomorrow.This
> looks difficult and critical. Any helpful hints will be appreciated.
> What's the best tool for this? Thanks, Robert

Robert,

As for a tool, I used a Stanley Block Plane, probably the 7 (or was it 7.5) inch model. Since Pygmy says to use a 45 degree angle, if I remember right, and not to plane through the last layer of the plywood, I took a scrap piece of plywood from the piece used to make the reinforce plates for the butt joints, and cut away one layer of the plywood, up to about 1/8" from the end. I then placed this thinner edge perpendicular to the sheer seam side of each panel, and drew a pencil line. The pencil line is then two layers (precise technical term for us home builders) in from the edge of the panel. If you plane to the pencil line and only through the second layer on the panel, you should have roughly a 45 degree angle. Again, apparently according to Pygmy it is not a critical, nor necessarily precise thing. You'll fill in the inside of this seam with thickened epoxy and a filleted tape joint later anyway, so if you don't get the angles just right, it's no biggie. This just keeps you from having an exposed plywood edge on the outside.

Regards, Chris