The wooden rub rails for the side of the boat was a particularly challenging project. I needed wood long enough as well as a table saw to cut an L-shape profile to fit over the hull/deck joint. Neither items did I have!
A friend of mine recently purchased a "flat"... you guys call it an "apartment". Who knows...
Anyways, this flat is from circa 1960...something, so it is old with old internal fittings. But, luckily for me, wooden furnishing from the 60's is top class wood. So he ripped out all the old wooden door frames and cupboards because he wants "modern". I politely helped him remove the old wood to my place! So now I had strips of good solid wood in lengths that were usable. I had to remove all the old nails and trim them to length that were usable.
I needed the table saw but as previously mentioned all and everything not health or food related was closed off/shut doors as a result of lockdown! I had to make my own table saw. This took a couple of days with odds and ends from my wood pile and eventually it was ready to be used. Actually that was a very nice project all of its own.
I needed to drill out and tap threads into the hull deck joint where the bolts for the rub rails will be fitted. Then i needed to work out the lengths so that the scarf joints required would be supported at a bolt fixing point. The curve of the deck is not too severe and the wooden strips bend quite easily to match.
In order to ensure an even sort of bending stress I weighed the lengths of wood to match the density of the pieces either side. I used the table saw arrangement to cut the lengths to size and then also to cut the lengths to the L-shape profile. I did cut a test piece beforehand to get the sizing correct.
A friend of mine recently purchased a "flat"... you guys call it an "apartment". Who knows...
Anyways, this flat is from circa 1960...something, so it is old with old internal fittings. But, luckily for me, wooden furnishing from the 60's is top class wood. So he ripped out all the old wooden door frames and cupboards because he wants "modern". I politely helped him remove the old wood to my place! So now I had strips of good solid wood in lengths that were usable. I had to remove all the old nails and trim them to length that were usable.
I needed the table saw but as previously mentioned all and everything not health or food related was closed off/shut doors as a result of lockdown! I had to make my own table saw. This took a couple of days with odds and ends from my wood pile and eventually it was ready to be used. Actually that was a very nice project all of its own.
I needed to drill out and tap threads into the hull deck joint where the bolts for the rub rails will be fitted. Then i needed to work out the lengths so that the scarf joints required would be supported at a bolt fixing point. The curve of the deck is not too severe and the wooden strips bend quite easily to match.
In order to ensure an even sort of bending stress I weighed the lengths of wood to match the density of the pieces either side. I used the table saw arrangement to cut the lengths to size and then also to cut the lengths to the L-shape profile. I did cut a test piece beforehand to get the sizing correct.
