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Re: Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback
By:Kevin Greer
Date: 11/12/2011, 6:28 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback (John Messinger)

: The forms look correctly aligned to me. I am building the Guillemot
: L.

: I read your blog post. Once I had the roughed out the hole in each
: form with saber saw, I made a router template and used 1/2"
: bit to get all the holes the same size. When I slide them on the
: strongback they lined up nicely, such that only 2 forms needed a
: business card shim to bring them into alignement with rest.

: When stripping I found that the first 6 strips of the hull are the
: hardest to get right.

: John

Yeah, I am building a Guillemot L too. The form placement looks good. As an extra step, I would insure you do not have any rocker in the strongback.. ie.. warping up and down. To check this I would shoot a straight line down each side of the strongback exactly half the width of the strongback/ form opening. If its a 4 inch wide strongback, reference down 2 inches. I would mark this on each of the forms also for precise alignment. Here in Florida everything warps. I had warpage both side to side and up and down on my 3/4 thick strongback... Also in aligning the stations I found that yellow braided fishing line worked better than a carpenter's string. Braided line has just a little stretch and enables precise placement of the forms.. Of course a laser will work too....

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Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback *PIC*
skrap1r0n -- 11/11/2011, 8:55 pm
Re: Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback
Simeon -- 11/12/2011, 2:12 am
Re: Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback
Thomas Duncan -- 11/12/2011, 8:04 am
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Kirk Fredericks -- 11/12/2011, 8:16 am
Re: Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback
John Messinger -- 11/12/2011, 8:35 am
Re: Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback
Kevin Greer -- 11/12/2011, 6:28 pm
Re: Strip: Guillemot Forms placed on strongback
Robert N Pruden -- 11/13/2011, 1:46 am