Rob, Nick, Russ, I certainly enjoyed the three of you and your dicussions of planes, scrapers and sanding. It show that masters can disagree and all have their favorite techniques that work best for them. I am newbe building my fist stripper but I am not new around wood, plastics and plaster or many boat project. I was in the pattern and model trade for 45 years and I have work with such diverse crasftmen as a wood carver from Germany that was an expert with chisels to the most modern Cad-Cam patternmakers. One thing I found is that when you get away from the basic power tools and get down to indivual techniques everyone is different. And most of us were trying to reinvent the wheel because that was the way we advance our skills and found new ways of doing things with greater speed and accurcy. My haul isn't faired completely yet, but I have use a jack plane, finger plane, beltsander, scraping, ROS and I am getting ready to use my 2'long fairing board. So far I like the beltsander and the finger plane best for my fairing. But that's just me. I get a lot of ideas from this board and I try many. When I finish my kayak I will buy your book Nick and see what I should have done that I didn't do. But right now it is more fun to stumble around and discover what works and doesn't for myself and rely on this board for all kinds of information.

John