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Re: Strip: wetting the strips
By:Randy Ricchi
Date: 12/1/2004, 11:49 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: wetting the strips (Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks)

: I don't see any point in trying to fill them. I would just leave them be.
: They are part of building the boat, not something worth trying to hide.

I like that advice.

I forgot to ask a stapling question. Do most people put a spacer (cardboard or somesuch) between the staple and the wood? If not, do you try to staple so that the staple doesn't seat flat against the wood? If it seats flat against the wood,it seems like you'd dent or gouge the wood trying to fit something under the staple in order to pull or pry it up. I know Nick recommends in his book to use one of those commercial business-office type staple pullers, but even that would have to be pressed in against the wood to get under a staple that was seated flush against the wood.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: wetting the strips
Randy Ricchi -- 12/1/2004, 11:20 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Rob Macks -- 12/1/2004, 4:38 pm
Hey, Rob....
Holmes -- 12/2/2004, 9:30 pm
Re: Hey, Rob....
Rob Macks -- 12/3/2004, 8:16 am
Thank you. *NM*
Holmes -- 12/3/2004, 1:29 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
phil -- 12/2/2004, 8:37 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Phil -- 12/1/2004, 6:53 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Rob Macks -- 12/2/2004, 8:18 am
Re: Strip: using wood filler to fill gaps
Randy Ricchi -- 12/1/2004, 6:51 pm
Re: Strip: using wood filler to fill gaps
Rob Macks -- 12/2/2004, 7:57 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Joel -- 12/1/2004, 5:31 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips *LINK*
gerald -- 12/1/2004, 2:51 pm
Re: Show 'em Off.. :)
Rehd -- 12/1/2004, 1:41 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Kent LeBoutillier -- 12/1/2004, 11:50 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Don Price -- 12/1/2004, 12:13 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips & pulling staples
Ric Moodie -- 12/1/2004, 4:54 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips & pulling staples
Justin L. -- 12/1/2004, 5:21 pm
Tack Cloth?
Glen Smith -- 12/1/2004, 12:36 pm
Re: Tack Cloth?
Ken Blanton -- 12/2/2004, 5:54 am
Re: Make my own? (Tack Cloth)
Steve B. -- 12/2/2004, 11:33 am
Re: Make my own? (Tack Cloth)
Ken Blanton -- 12/2/2004, 5:03 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Ken Blanton -- 12/1/2004, 11:47 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 12/1/2004, 11:38 am
Re: Staple Holes
Mike Scarborough -- 12/2/2004, 9:34 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Randy Ricchi -- 12/1/2004, 11:49 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips *LINK* *Pic*
Richard Kohlström -- 12/2/2004, 11:13 am
Re: Strip: wetting the strips *Pic*
Jesper Bach -- 12/2/2004, 1:37 am
Re: Depressions can be.....
Rehd -- 12/1/2004, 1:59 pm
Re: Strip: wetting the strips
Glen Smith -- 12/1/2004, 11:56 am