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Re: Strip: Night Heron bow/stern
By:Deano
Date: 4/11/2012, 8:54 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Night Heron bow/stern *PIC* (Bryan K)

: I think you're talking about an internal stem piece attached to the
: bow/sten forms. that is actually optional, and when I build I
: rarely do that anymore. It does add some strength and a place to
: land your strips, but it's more work and adds weight, so I just
: fit the strips together at the ends where the strips meet and
: glue them there.. After the hull is stripped I plane a flat
: surface on the exterior of the bow and stern about
: 1/2"-3/4" wide. I then take about 3-5 1/8" strips
: of hardwood (usually ash or padauk), butter them up with a
: mixture of epoxy and fumed silica (consistency of peanut butter)
: and them lay them on the stem ends (see picture), holding them
: in place with packing tape. After they cure I take the tape off
: and taper the stems with a block plane into the hull for a nice
: finished look.

: Bryan K

I used cedar internal stems too... I beveled the edges of the cedar end forms, and then cut about an inch of width of the beveled part off. Re-attached it with a few spots of hot glue. When stripping I glued the strips to the bevel, and when the glassing was done, I just broke the hot glue bond to leave the stems in the hull when I pulled it off the forms.

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Strip: Night Heron bow/stern
Jack Hawkins -- 4/10/2012, 10:16 am
Re: Strip: Night Heron bow/stern *PIC*
Bryan K -- 4/10/2012, 2:49 pm
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Jack Hawkins -- 4/10/2012, 3:18 pm
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Jack Hawkins -- 4/10/2012, 4:41 pm
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Bryan K -- 4/10/2012, 5:07 pm
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Jack Hawkins -- 4/10/2012, 5:29 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/11/2012, 3:00 am
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Sean Dawe -- 4/11/2012, 12:16 pm
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danperry -- 4/11/2012, 1:43 pm
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Sean Dawe -- 4/11/2012, 1:56 pm
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John Abercrombie -- 4/11/2012, 2:05 pm
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Sean Dawe -- 4/11/2012, 10:23 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 4/12/2012, 2:04 am
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Dan Caouette -- 4/12/2012, 7:50 am
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John Abercrombie -- 4/12/2012, 11:16 am
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Bill Hamm -- 4/15/2012, 4:23 am
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george jung -- 4/12/2012, 10:06 am
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Sean Dawe -- 4/12/2012, 10:28 am
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Deano -- 4/11/2012, 8:54 am
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ancient kayaker -- 4/10/2012, 5:26 pm
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Jack Hawkins -- 4/10/2012, 5:31 pm