LS ME: Shearclamps installed!
FBBB --
Cut a pair of shearclamps from my miracle 2x10; fine looking boards they were.
Using a bit of backwards logic, I cut them a bit oversized. The grain
of the wood was so true and even, I wanted as much of its natural
curve enforced into the shear as I thought I could bent.
My wife and my sister helped hold while I sewed up the side with the
screw-gun. Screws bit in and epoxy oozed nicely over the edges.
When we stepped back, low and behold the shear had taken a fine and
beautiful shape!
Much the opposite with the deck stringers. The shit wood I've got for
that wobbles this way and that. Little, if any satisfaction in the
doing or the being done.
I could cut deckstrings from what's left of the 2x10 (about 1.5x4)
but that seems a waste of such nice wood. I'm thinking a couple of
plywood knees to help enforce the shape and support the deck is a
better way to go.
She's really got her shape now -- it's something to see. From the
moment I laid eyes on her (Tim's boat on a reach, I think,) I was
smitten, and now my devotion is paying off. With a little weather,
we'll be in the water by July. Might be time to start shopping for a
Jolly Roger.
YIBB,
David
CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 247-0296
Cut a pair of shearclamps from my miracle 2x10; fine looking boards they were.
Using a bit of backwards logic, I cut them a bit oversized. The grain
of the wood was so true and even, I wanted as much of its natural
curve enforced into the shear as I thought I could bent.
My wife and my sister helped hold while I sewed up the side with the
screw-gun. Screws bit in and epoxy oozed nicely over the edges.
When we stepped back, low and behold the shear had taken a fine and
beautiful shape!
Much the opposite with the deck stringers. The shit wood I've got for
that wobbles this way and that. Little, if any satisfaction in the
doing or the being done.
I could cut deckstrings from what's left of the 2x10 (about 1.5x4)
but that seems a waste of such nice wood. I'm thinking a couple of
plywood knees to help enforce the shape and support the deck is a
better way to go.
She's really got her shape now -- it's something to see. From the
moment I laid eyes on her (Tim's boat on a reach, I think,) I was
smitten, and now my devotion is paying off. With a little weather,
we'll be in the water by July. Might be time to start shopping for a
Jolly Roger.
YIBB,
David
CRUMBLING EMPIRE PRODUCTIONS
134 W.26th St. 12th Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 247-0296