: I searched the archives and found a few short threads. There's the bungee
: method, which seems to make sense, except I don't happen to have a lot
: lying around. There's strapping tape, and strips of inner tube (both of
: which I happen to have lying around). These sound fast and easy, which is
: good, but wouldn't you only get pressure in one direction (against the
: adjacent strip). In these methods, how do you apply pressure against the
: forms? Or maybe none is needed? There's the wooden U-clamps referred to by
: various authors. I'm sure these would do the job, but they seems like a
: lot of work both before and during stripping.

Hi Ken,

On my first boat I was going completely stapleless but I found I had to cheat now and then because of some severe bends for some strips. I found that a medium thick super glue and super glue spray excelator for some of the strips that were glued to each other was a big help where I just couldn’t clamp or tape them. Occasional I used a ringed pole barn nail with a rubber gromet, (doesn’t marr the wood –used to hold the siding on pole barns) to hold a really tough strip. I used white hot glue rather then yellow and it didn’t have as good holding power of yellow hot glue. I couldn’t find yellow at the time. Also, my hull come loose from my forms and I had to put it back on and screw the shear strips to the forms to hold it in place. So on the boat I am building now I will fasten down the shear strips with screws or nails and cheat.
On the Shooting Star I am building now it looks like the strips will not have so much harsh bending and will probably go on easier. I used lots of Duck tape to hold strips in place while they were gluing and also the L brackets to pull the strips against the forms. I found there is a big difference in Duck tape mastic holding power. One I liked was from the UNITED TAPE COMPANY that I got at Menards, and it was cheaper then a more expensive one I got at WalMart that didn’t hold near as well. I was so messy with glue that I would have had glue all over rope or bungy cord and I wondered if the glue would have come off when used over and over again. Evidently it does.

John

: Chip referred to "sash cord", and !RUSS referred to "those
: L-shaped hoosy whats". I'm not sure what either of those are.

The L-shaped is just a piece of wood used to hold a strip against the strip it is being glued to and also to pull the strip against the form it is clamped to. Maybe someone has a picture. I found them very usefull. I would guess that Russ sash cord it the type used for windows.