I put the bevel on the first two strips of both the hull and the deck before I attached them to the forms. I took full length strips, temporarily attached them to the forms and marked where they reached the ends. Then I ran a 45 degree bevel the length of the strip with a block plane, and then attached it (I'm going staple-less). You glass the outsides of the hull and deck before you take them off the forms, so if you wait to bevel, you're using a plane to bevel wood, glass, and epoxy. You can do it, but it will make the plane iron what Foghorn Leghorn says is "about a sharp as a bowling ball". One note of caution... because of the tight curvature of the sides of the rear deck of the Night Heron, I used half inch wide strips for the first three on each side... keep your fingers well back from the plane when beveling half inch strips(this is empirical knowledge... not that "somebody told me about it" vicarious kind... now unfortunately, I can ID my boat with DNA from the bloody fingerprint on the inside of one of the strips). Oh, keep superglue handy in your shop... it'll stop the bleeding while you finish! Now a jig to hold the strips vertical (with dowel in the bottom of the slot to protect the coves) while you put the bevel on them would have been easier than doing it all by hand, but I didn't think of this until after I'd beveled them.