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Re: More on pvc frames
By:Mike Savage
Date: 11/30/2007, 5:45 pm
In Response To: Re: More on pvc frames (Paul G. Jacobson)

: snip

: I mention this because the complexity of a subject does not always make it a
: difficult project. There are almost no areas on a canoe which have square
: joints. But we make the parts and components on tools which are set up to
: cut square edges. The discoverers of calculus (Newton and Descarte) would
: look at strip building and hold it in awe. The compound curves of the hull
: are approximated with numerous thin strips. It is the same as breaking up
: the area under a curve into a large number of thin rectangles. It is easy
: to calculate the area of those rectangles, and average out the
: discrepancies.

snip

: PGJ.

Hi Paul,
Newton or Descartes may have felt awe looking at a strip built hull, yet there were many of the time who would have just nodded with knowledge. Boat builders. Using narrow planks, even square planks, is an old method of hull building, often for boats that were hauled-up on shore instead of mooring.

Disproving nothing. :)

Mike Savage
South West Cork

Messages In This Thread

Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Scott Shurlow -- 11/25/2007, 5:05 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/29/2007, 2:30 pm
More on pvc frames *Pic*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/29/2007, 4:36 pm
Re: More on pvc frames
Charlie -- 11/29/2007, 4:40 pm
Re: More on pvc frames
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/29/2007, 8:33 pm
Re: More on pvc frames
Charlie -- 11/29/2007, 11:17 pm
Re: More on pvc frames
Paul G. Jacobson -- 11/30/2007, 6:47 am
Re: More on pvc frames
Mike Savage -- 11/30/2007, 5:45 pm
Re: More on pvc frames
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/1/2007, 12:47 am
Re: More on pvc frames
Mike Savage -- 12/1/2007, 8:10 am
Standing on the shoulders of giants
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/1/2007, 12:49 pm
Re: Standing on the shoulders of giants
Mike Savage -- 12/1/2007, 6:03 pm
Re: More on pvc frames
Charlie -- 11/30/2007, 12:25 pm
And then there are other technologies . . .
Paul G. Jacobson -- 12/1/2007, 12:01 am
Re: More on pvc frames
Mike Savage -- 11/29/2007, 7:54 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Niven -- 11/26/2007, 2:03 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
kelly t -- 11/26/2007, 7:34 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Scott Shurlow -- 11/26/2007, 8:02 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Niven -- 11/27/2007, 3:32 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame *LINK*
Niven -- 11/27/2007, 3:47 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Charlie -- 11/25/2007, 6:22 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Scott Shurlow -- 11/26/2007, 8:09 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Charlie -- 11/26/2007, 10:44 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Scott Shurlow -- 11/27/2007, 6:07 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Bill Hamm -- 11/28/2007, 1:59 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 11/28/2007, 2:02 pm
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Bill Hamm -- 11/29/2007, 2:31 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: pvc frame
Mike Savage -- 11/27/2007, 1:23 pm
Maybe this, instead *LINK*
Dave G -- 11/26/2007, 10:24 am