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Re: Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF
By:Will Clarke
Date: 9/2/2010, 9:57 pm
In Response To: Re: Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF *PIC* (barry boyette)

: The top skin is almost completely glued on. I still have to finish
: a 4-5 foot section on right front and then trim off excess. I'm
: then going to glue a 3 or 4 inch layer of pinked edge tape over
: the seam to help hide it. I've started to shrink the the top
: skin as you can see in the picture. The bottom shrunk well using
: my fabric iron at 350 F but the top was still a little saggy
: until we put a heat gun on it with much higher temps.

Barry, Your boat is looking great! Could you elaborate on how you're skinning it? It looks like no stitches and no rub-rails. Are you gluing the skin to the frame or just to itself?
Thanks,
Will

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Skin-on-Frame: Time to finish my SOF *PIC*
barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:13 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 9:36 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/6/2010, 9:45 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 10:15 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 9:42 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 6:50 am
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Kudzu -- 9/6/2010, 9:47 am
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 1:04 pm
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Kudzu -- 9/6/2010, 2:07 pm
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Dave Gentry -- 9/6/2010, 8:21 am
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barry boyette -- 9/6/2010, 6:53 am
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barry boyette -- 9/3/2010, 9:18 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/4/2010, 7:49 pm
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/4/2010, 8:28 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/5/2010, 12:32 am
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barry boyette -- 9/5/2010, 9:01 am
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Clayton Plunkett -- 9/5/2010, 8:59 am
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barry boyette -- 9/3/2010, 9:20 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/2/2010, 9:24 pm
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barry boyette -- 8/27/2010, 10:20 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/2/2010, 9:20 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 9/3/2010, 12:57 am
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barry boyette -- 8/27/2010, 10:11 pm
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barry boyette -- 8/27/2010, 9:57 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/28/2010, 4:50 am
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barry boyette -- 8/28/2010, 6:44 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/28/2010, 7:45 am
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barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:36 pm
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barry boyette -- 8/10/2010, 10:40 pm
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Will Clarke -- 9/2/2010, 9:57 pm
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barry boyette -- 9/2/2010, 10:52 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/11/2010, 7:37 am
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barry boyette -- 8/11/2010, 10:02 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/12/2010, 1:04 am
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barry boyette -- 8/12/2010, 6:06 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/13/2010, 12:43 am
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John VanBuren -- 7/26/2010, 11:16 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/26/2010, 12:09 am
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barry boyette -- 7/26/2010, 7:00 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/27/2010, 7:58 am
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barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:31 pm
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barry boyette -- 7/25/2010, 10:30 pm