Oh Joy resto 01/04/10

[CharlieCobra]

I went up and worked some more on that clamp section. After jointing, planing etc. to get it looking good, I realized all I did was waste a $60 piece of wood. The width is fine but the height is 1/8" shy of what I need.

The curve is correct as shown below.





The two pieces match up nicely.





Ah well, practice makes perfect... I think I'll cut all dimension a bit over so I can plane it out nice and slick without coming up short somewhere.

We did get a couple of the foredeck beams done....




...so it wasn't a total waste.

I suppose I'll snag another board from Targo Wood tomorrow and start again.

[JohnRPollard]

Oh well, Charlie, it happens to the best of them. No biggie. Live and learn.

And, Happy New Year!

[CharlieCobra]

Same to ya John...

[deniseO30]

Charlie..not knowing the the build methods of the original... would this be the time to look at the benefits of steam bending rather then sawing?

[CharlieCobra]

I considered steam bent rather then sawn and there were issues with the original piece caused by the bending, particularly where the notches were cut on the outside for the chainplates. The clamp split from the bending stresses at the corners of every single notch and ran down the grain from there. Being sawn eliminates those stresses and no splitting will occur at those notches in this piece.

Also, the difficulty of bending the piece to fit that curve, which is about 18" of run in 8', with through bolts from the ribs and the two scarph joints at the ends made it a very difficult proposition.

[Stillraining]

Like they say ..A log house is always smaller then the forest its cut from ......Well.....I think just maybe I just made that up...but it sounds good anyway......Timberrr!..

Like Ted Nugent says..."Happeness is a warm sawdust pile"...err....... or maybe was that a gut pile.....nevermind..no differance.

[deniseO30]

"measure twice cut once" yeah right!

[CharlieCobra]

Yeah well it's the bandsaw "wows" that got me this time... That and the mistake of using a jointer too much. By the time I figured out it wasn't working like I wanted, it was too late.

[deniseO30]

I used to hang out around closing time at a millwork shop. I'd get the live edge cut offs the mahogany and any other "long" lumber they had. For free too. They were always large enough to get out stock for the pretty thin gunnels on canoes. mosts were less then 1x1.25" sometimes I was able to get out 1x3 pieces too. I'll never forget how we tried steaming mahogany and I wanted this one canoe to not have any scarf joints... we went through 3 sets before finally giving up on steam bending hondorus mahogany, the ash looks nice though! I did find out a couple years later that "lesser" mahoganies bend easier. Ash and white oak bend nice.. the greener the better.

[Sabreman]

I assume that you'll save the bad piece. You'll use it somewhere else. When I make furniture, this sometimes happens to me too. Of course I'm mad that I wasted the time, but I save the wood and use it somewhere else. Oh Joy has lots of curves.......

I know that it's too late to seriously consider this, but what about laminating in lieu of swan and steam bending? I use laminations in much of my furniture, the Nutshell Pram that I built, having learned the technique at Nor'Easter Yacht Yard in Ocean City, NJ in the 1970's. We did all th eframes on a 22' catboat. Turned out nice.