: Okay, so I've got a design that I'm ready to commit to wood, at least as a
: half-scale lauan toss-together to see if I have this lofting and plate
: expansion thing worked out.

: So, the exercise is one of taking hundreds of x-y points, plotting them onto
: a big old piece of ply, connecting the dots with a batten, and taking saw
: to wood. The last two are decent ways to spend an evening. Plotting all
: those points sounds like considerably less fun, and a challenge to do
: accurately. I'm seriously considering the purchase of some Lee Valley
: bench tapes to stick directly to the ply to aid in the process, and
: probably another to add to the edge of a shop-made T-square.

: Any other ideas to ease this step would be greatly appreciated.

: Dan.

I have a few pictures of how I made the panels for a Cormorant on my webpage. See the link below.

Kurt