G'day all. I tried fitting shear strips last night, and it didn't work as I'd imagined. The strips produce fair curves, but not if they're pressed flat against all the forms. Towards the bow and stern, the strips only contact the edge of the forms. If pressed flat against the center of all the forms, the resultant curve is distorted because it's composed of a few short, flat sections in between long, gently curving sections. I anticipated some amount of this (the forms aren't two dimensional, after all), but, in a few cases, the gap between the center of the form and the back of the strip is so significant that staples aren't long enough, and only long finish nails could bridge the gap. Is some gap normal? How much? Are the strips supposed to fit flush with the forms? Now, I did use 3/4" material for forms, and that would increase the gap compared to 1/2" material, so how shall I proceed? Use long nails? Bevel the edge of the forms? Router the perimeter of the forms to 1/2"? Scrap everything and start over with 1/2" material? I'll get this thing off the ground one day... Thanks.