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Re: Material: how many strips
By:Les Cheeseman
Date: 1/21/2010, 10:56 am
In Response To: Re: Material: how many strips (Bill Hamm)

I have just finished my first build so I'm only a rookie. I used a mixture of 14' and 10' strips 3/6" thick x 3/4" or 3/8"(less the width of the 3mm kerf blade.) All the joints were scarfed by holding the ends of two strips together, with a 1" thick backing strip, on a rotary disc sander. I tried to keep the scarf length to about 1/2" but as each pair was cut together, I found it wasn't too critical. I fitted and glued one end of each strip in place before fitting and glueing the other half, making the scarf joint at the same time, wrapped in polythene and clamped.
I used Titebond 111 and at temperatures around 25c I found if I worked from side to side on the boat, I could keep working with relatively little thumb twiddling between strips and with some care in matching colours the joints are now quite difficult to see.
I think like several of the people posting in this thread, I spent ages trouble shooting before I started to build, but once I got going it was much quicker than I expected and I just followed my nose! I've got a load of strips left over ready for my next build.

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Material: how many strips
dave g -- 1/17/2010, 4:44 pm
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Ian Johnson -- 1/20/2010, 4:55 am
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Ian Johnson -- 2/9/2010, 4:23 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 2/11/2010, 2:57 pm
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dave g -- 2/9/2010, 8:20 pm
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george jung -- 1/20/2010, 10:32 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/21/2010, 9:33 am
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Les Cheeseman -- 1/21/2010, 10:56 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/24/2010, 12:52 am
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dave g -- 1/20/2010, 9:16 pm
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Ian Johnson -- 1/20/2010, 11:24 pm
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Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 1/19/2010, 5:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/24/2010, 12:47 am
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Charlie -- 1/17/2010, 9:25 pm
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dave g -- 1/17/2010, 10:09 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/18/2010, 12:34 am
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dave g -- 1/19/2010, 8:15 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/20/2010, 3:19 pm
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dave g -- 1/20/2010, 9:19 pm
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george jung -- 1/20/2010, 10:30 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/24/2010, 12:45 am
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george jung -- 1/24/2010, 6:02 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/25/2010, 12:25 am
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Bill Hamm -- 1/25/2010, 12:20 am
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george jung -- 1/25/2010, 7:47 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/26/2010, 12:50 am
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dave g -- 1/20/2010, 10:43 pm
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george jung -- 1/18/2010, 5:21 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/19/2010, 2:16 am
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george jung -- 1/19/2010, 7:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 1/20/2010, 3:16 pm
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Glen Smith -- 1/17/2010, 9:50 pm
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dave g -- 1/17/2010, 10:13 pm
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dave g -- 1/17/2010, 4:49 pm