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Re: How I rounded the Great Auk deck
By:peter czerpak
Date: 8/30/2000, 7:53 am
In Response To: How I rounded the Great Auk deck *Pic* (Jerry Siegel)

: For those who have asked, here's how I rounded the deck forms of my Great
: Auk. Not sure of the quality my directions so I included some photos.
: Without further adue here goes-----

: 1.I chose the forms that would be part of the round deck, 1 thru 7. 2.Form 1
: would be where the round part faded to nothing, form 7 would be rounded to
: 4 1/2" from the center of the kayak. This was a random choice on my
: part. You can round as little or as much of the deck as you want by
: chaging the offest from center on form 7. 3.Next, I stacked the forms with
: the top edges aligned and centered. Then I drew a line connecting the zero
: point of form 1 with the 4 1/2" offest on form 7. 4.Using a square I
: drew another line perpendicular to the deck on each side of the center
: line on each form. 5.Using the intersection of these lines as the center
: point of an arc, I adjusted my dividers to scribe an arc across the top of
: each form. The dividers must be readjusted for each form. 6.I then cut the
: top of the form off and continued as usual.

Nice description - very clear.

Beautiful yak by the way.

Thanks, Pete czerpak albany, NY

Messages In This Thread

How I rounded the Great Auk deck *Pic*
Jerry Siegel -- 8/29/2000, 3:04 pm
Re: How I rounded the Great Auk deck
peter czerpak -- 8/30/2000, 7:53 am
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Jerry Siegel -- 8/29/2000, 3:07 pm