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Re: Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot
By:Myrl Tanton
Date: 11/25/2002, 11:25 am
In Response To: Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot *Pic* (Rick Allnutt)

: 10 hours of ripping 6 2x4s into strips on Saturday. 4 hours of putting a bead
: and cove on the strips today. A couple hours to build up the forms and
: lock them in place and the shear strips went on just fine (with a heat gun
: for the ends)!

: You can't build just one..
: You can't build just one..

: Rick

Hi Rick

Just wondering what model that boat is?

If you get the strips to bend around that hard chine, I'll be a believer for life in the heat gun method. ( I just bought on a few weeks ago, but have not tried it for stripping yet). Let us know how it goes.

cheers,

Myrl

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot *Pic*
Rick Allnutt -- 11/24/2002, 10:17 pm
Re: Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot
Myrl Tanton -- 11/25/2002, 11:25 am
Re: Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot *LINK*
Rick Allnutt -- 11/25/2002, 11:35 am
Re: Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot *LINK* *Pic*
Charles Leach -- 11/25/2002, 1:42 pm
Re: Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot *LINK*
Randy Oswald -- 11/25/2002, 7:40 pm
Re: Strip: Shear Strip Laid - Guillemot
Rick Allnutt -- 11/25/2002, 7:59 pm
Guillemot - wow.
Myrl Tanton -- 11/25/2002, 11:55 am