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Re: Seeking: Experienced builder

By:JohnAbercrombie
Date: 7/22/2014, 12:32 am

In Response To: Re: Seeking: Experienced builder (Marc Upchurch)

Personally I continually screwed up a stretched wire

I never had much luck with a wire when setting up kayak molds either.
A piece of thread (polyester sewing thread) works well.

And with the thread, lotsa small sticks and spring clamps to clamp the sticks to the forms.
(It's all in KayakCraft and Nicks book, I think ?)

I had a laser when setting up the last build, but I didn't find it terribly useful - I probably was missing something obvious in the setup.

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Ken Blanton -- 7/21/2014, 6:34 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
JohnAbercrombie -- 7/21/2014, 7:44 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
John Messinger -- 7/21/2014, 9:50 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Marc Upchurch -- 7/21/2014, 10:09 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
JohnAbercrombie -- 7/22/2014, 12:32 am

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Ken Blanton -- 7/22/2014, 6:12 am

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Etienne Muller -- 7/22/2014, 12:12 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
JohnAbercrombie -- 7/22/2014, 1:28 pm

Don't panic
Jay Babina -- 7/22/2014, 6:49 am

Re: Don't panic
george jung -- 7/22/2014, 8:36 am

Re: Don't panic
greg -- 7/22/2014, 12:21 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Rich Purgason -- 7/22/2014, 1:23 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Bill Hamm -- 7/23/2014, 12:36 am

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Bryan Hansel -- 7/24/2014, 10:55 am

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Tim Cronsberry -- 7/25/2014, 3:23 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
george jung -- 7/25/2014, 7:02 pm

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Paul Davies. -- 12/19/2014, 2:54 am

Re: Seeking: Experienced builder
Jim Farrelly -- 8/28/2015, 12:22 pm

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