I built 4 of Nick's stands for a friend and I to build a Guillemot and an Expedition Single on. I'm building a Coho now so I bolted some old water bed rails to the uprights and slapped on a couple 4x8 particle board sheets. It's heavy and a little wide but, I have long arms. My wife is waiting to get the back porch back.

Greg

: In Nick's book, he details a saw horse that is perfect for kayak building. It
: allows you to support an internal strong back one way and cradle your boat
: another way. For my S&G hull, I made an 18 foot table from cheap particle
: board and a few 2x4s that would fit in between the saw horse arms. When I
: was scarfing, cutitng, smoothing and stitching the plywood, I stuck a
: short 2x4 across the horse and had the perfect work space at a good height
: for those things. When I needed the tops of the horse to cradle the boat,
: I dropped the 'table' part down to the cross brace and I have an ideal
: storage area. A short piece of 2x4 across the horse and a few spring
: clamps under the hull keep it from flopping around and I can adjust them
: to keep the boat level very easily.
: The only kicker is, an 18 foot table in a 20 foot garage. I temp screwed it
: to the back wall for stability and you have to be careful walking around
: the other side. (How many times has my shirt caught the bow and almost
: dumped my yak on the floor) Normaly, I take the yak outside and turn it
: around to work on the other side.
: I never use my normal work bench (3x8) except to pile tools up on when I'm
: too lazy to clean up. Small work gets done on the arm saw table with the
: arm swung out of the way.
: If I ever get web publishing services again, I should post some pics of the
: setup.