| Watch your Fingers! I cut the planks on a table saw fitted with an 80-tooth carpentry blade. The planks were cut from Grade A Canadian Pine. Would I use anything else? The planks I cut were 124cm long, 9mm wide and 4mm in depth. In retrospect, if I were to do this again, I would make the planks the same length and width, but only 2mm or perhaps 3mm in depth. Being so thick they resisted bending. |
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| 100 Planks Here are a few of the planks, cut and ready to begin the hull planking. I looked at this pile of lumber, then at my skeletal frame, and wondered; "what have I gotten myself into"? |
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| Steaming Planks; Better than Clams! Each plank, once soaked in water for 3 hours, was bent to the correct shape over a plank-bender. In my case, this was an 80 watt soldering stick clamped to the work bench. This worked just fine. However, I soon discovered that having a red-hot soldering tool sticking out from my work bench at groin level, was not a good idea. (!) |
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| Intro / Getting Ready / Cutting Stations / Gluing the Stations to the Keel / Planking / Bow & Stern / Catastrophe/ Casemates / Final Product |