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Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
By:ancient kayaker
Date: 3/1/2012, 5:10 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: what is a gap really? (robert l)

: I took the comment well and it was kind of what I expected to hear.
: The gaps I am having difficulties with pretty much disappear
: under epoxy and varnish but lead to lots of trouble during the
: project. I think I need to develop more patience and skill
: fitting strips properly. I received a lot of great advise from
: the guys on this site and I would like to thank you all. Of
: course I may have been better off if I had never started
: building these boats because now I am thinking I have just
: enough time to make a canoe before spring

I read someplace that a great work of art has to have an imperfection somewhere, to distinguish it from machine made perfection. As I try to make all of my boats into works of art I have taken this to heart, consequently each of my boats has not one but several imperfections, as I don't believe in doing things by halves . . .

Messages In This Thread

Strip: what is a gap really?
robert l -- 2/29/2012, 10:23 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Mike Bielski -- 2/29/2012, 11:40 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
george jung -- 2/29/2012, 12:10 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Mike Bielski -- 2/29/2012, 5:14 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
robert l -- 3/1/2012, 1:45 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Kirk Fredericks -- 3/1/2012, 10:09 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Glenn -- 3/1/2012, 4:44 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
ancient kayaker -- 3/1/2012, 5:10 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Etienne Muller -- 3/1/2012, 5:51 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
robert l -- 3/2/2012, 1:33 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really? *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 3/2/2012, 3:23 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really? *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 3/2/2012, 3:26 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Justin -- 3/2/2012, 5:18 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really? *PIC*
Etienne Muller -- 3/2/2012, 6:02 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Mike Savage -- 3/2/2012, 9:56 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Kirk Fredericks -- 3/2/2012, 8:57 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Etienne Muller -- 3/2/2012, 10:15 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
robert l -- 3/2/2012, 12:10 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Jay Babina -- 3/2/2012, 2:55 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Kirk Fredericks -- 3/2/2012, 5:44 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Robert l -- 3/2/2012, 9:32 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
ancient kayaker -- 3/2/2012, 5:09 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 2/29/2012, 1:08 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really? *PIC*
robert l -- 3/2/2012, 11:23 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
John Abercrombie -- 2/29/2012, 1:16 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Randy Echtinaw -- 2/29/2012, 4:07 pm
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
Kirk Fredericks -- 3/1/2012, 10:07 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really? *PIC*
Sean Dawe -- 3/1/2012, 8:30 am
Re: Strip: what is a gap really?
John Messinger -- 3/1/2012, 1:22 pm