I'm getting ready to build a Guillemot after doing a canoe last winter (see link for pics). I'm planning on doing some very extensive designs that will cross the shear. I have been toying with rough stripping the forms to create a wireframe and then doing the actual stripping over the top of that. The thought being that the wireframe will provide the necesary guides in between the standard forms to keep the hull fair. Some of the designs are going to require steam bending to make th correct bend at the shear (and possibly at the chines). Anything crossing the shear will get split with a japanese pull saw to facilitate "normal" glassing and assembly procedures.

Am I crazy?