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Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building *Pic*
By:John Monroe
Date: 5/15/2008, 4:40 am
In Response To: Strip: Firestar - stern building (Roger)

I went through some of the frustrations you have, steaming, etc. Even in the picture of the model of the stern, I screwed up and had to take the bottom pine off after all that work and run the pine with continuous stripping for strength along the section forms and into the stern.

This is how I bent the strips. I clamped my heat gun down in place, then I would get a strip about 12 inches longer then needed, and holding it with a pair of gloves I would run the strip back and forth until I felt it start to give. Then with pressure from my gloved hands I would gently bend and twist the strip, then hold it against the form to see what more twisting and bending I needed to do. I blackened the back side of the strips doing this but it worked. Not very craftsmen like and I did break some strips along the way.

John

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Firestar - stern building
Roger -- 5/12/2008, 6:52 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building *Pic*
John Monroe -- 5/15/2008, 4:40 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
PatrickC -- 5/13/2008, 1:11 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Roger -- 5/13/2008, 7:18 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Bob Deutsch------WebKitFormBoundaryMj+41hHLCDocqqN -- 5/13/2008, 7:50 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 5/13/2008, 9:26 am
Re: Northern White Cedar
PatrickC -- 5/14/2008, 12:33 am
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 5/14/2008, 8:51 am
Re: Atlantic White Cedar
PatrickC -- 5/14/2008, 11:43 pm
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/12/2008, 10:24 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Rob Macks / Laughing Loon CC&K -- 5/12/2008, 10:47 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Roger -- 5/13/2008, 7:04 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building *Pic*
Etienne Muller -- 5/12/2008, 7:58 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Roger -- 5/12/2008, 8:29 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building *Pic*
Etienne Muller -- 5/12/2008, 12:08 pm
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Mike Savage -- 5/12/2008, 8:04 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Etienne Muller -- 5/12/2008, 8:12 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Mike Savage -- 5/12/2008, 1:38 pm
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Etienne Muller -- 5/13/2008, 11:14 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Mike Savage -- 5/13/2008, 3:30 pm
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Etienne Muller -- 5/14/2008, 10:54 am
Re: Strip: Firestar - stern building
Mike Savage -- 5/14/2008, 5:50 pm