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Re: The Key to stapless construction / pic
By:Rick thomas
Date: 4/11/2000, 11:28 pm
In Response To: Re: The Key to stapless construction / pic (Ross Leidy)

> That's a quite attractive "fudge-swirl" boat. What model is it?

> With your building setup, it's easy to see that you'd use wedges to hold
> the strips against the inner forms, but how did you force the strip edges
> together?

> Nice job. I hope we get to see more pictures of the boat and the setup.

> Ross I was able to just aply force down onto the strips and as the sides came closer I used pices or strips forced aginst each outher ,the formskeep things stright I alowed 3/8 between the forms , Its a guillmont Expiditon with about 15" removed from the hull and keeping the ends the same spacing Rick

Messages In This Thread

The Key to stapless construction / pic
Rick thomas -- 4/11/2000, 7:21 pm
Re: To cut the forms..
Don Beale -- 4/12/2000, 12:32 pm
Re: To cut the forms..
Rick thomas -- 4/12/2000, 3:09 pm
Re: To cut the forms..
Don Beale -- 4/13/2000, 1:05 am
Re: The Key to stapless construction / pic
Kent LeBoutillier -- 4/12/2000, 6:09 am
Re: The Key to stapless construction / pic
Rick thomas -- 4/12/2000, 9:07 am
Re: The Key to stapless construction / pic
Ross Leidy -- 4/11/2000, 10:26 pm
Re: The Key to stapless construction / pic
Rick thomas -- 4/11/2000, 11:28 pm
Re: Stapleless Rules
Spidey -- 4/11/2000, 8:31 pm
Re: Stapleless Rules
Rick thomas -- 4/11/2000, 11:48 pm
stapless construction method
mike allen ---} -- 4/11/2000, 8:06 pm
Re: stapless construction method
Rick thomas -- 4/11/2000, 8:39 pm
Nice looking boat
Mark R. -- 4/11/2000, 7:51 pm
Re: Nice looking boat + Picture
Dean Trexel -- 4/11/2000, 8:00 pm
Re: Nice looking boat + Picture
Cliff Troxell -- 4/11/2000, 10:09 pm
Re: Wasted recources
Don Beale -- 4/12/2000, 12:29 pm
Re: Green Paradigm
Clifford Troxell -- 4/13/2000, 7:43 am
Re: S&G Layout diagram
Shawn B -- 4/13/2000, 5:49 pm
Re: S&G Layout diagram
Clifford Troxell -- 4/14/2000, 6:28 am
Re: Green Paradigm
Don Beale -- 4/13/2000, 5:19 pm
we could look at it like this...
Jack W. -- 4/12/2000, 12:57 pm
Re: we could look at it like this...
Rick thomas -- 4/12/2000, 2:53 pm
Now I see it. Thanks (no text).
Mark R. -- 4/11/2000, 8:28 pm