Thanks Chip. I am going to be building a steamer this week and will try to test some pieces. I'm having to borrow a workshop on St. John and I live on St. Thomas, so I'm hoping this works and I can just rip all the ribs and carry them back in one trip. That's one reason I want to build a SOF- you don't have to do too much shop work and it doesn't take much wood. I can rip the big pieces and hand cut everything else. I'm finishing a stripper on my porch that I started in the US, but now that I am here wood is too rare to build another stripper. Hopefully I will be able to post pics. Right now internet service is slow and expensive, but I'm about to try to get wireless service hooked up, if I am in range of the antenna. The phone company here is on strike and the striking workers are sabotaging the phone lines. I just got the service back up at my work and today they cut them again.

Thanks again,
Malcolm