It has been a long
stretch again. Continue to plug away and now have started to do set up for the second rig. Dix written directions are a bit confusing for me yet with some patience for me to get with the program was able to make forward progress. I also want to give a couple of end of season notes. First on the
Interlux top coat (came with grip sand in it) really good stuff keeps you from falling, yet a bit
aggressive takes skin off real quick and is very hard on any hardware that is on deck. I started to tie all hard ware up off the deck for any
travel time on the trailer. I also was not happy with the
performance of the bottom paint (also
Interlux) does not hold up to any hit at all. I have two coat on yet wore
through in the area where it sits on the wheel of the trailer. This is not a full up date for this second rig. More to come. I finally broke down and put the Kayak away for the season on December first. It is going to be a long winter!
I was not ready to put the jib in place came up with simple
bungee to keep it from
bagging around.
The next two pics give you how I put force into bring the 4'' bend in the mast. I used the up hall line
cleated into the cleat on the bottom of the mast. Note that I
flipped my boom upside down and use the out board end thumb cleat to lock the line in place. Lastly just a one inch friction strap. The first two inches of bend in the mast come pretty easy. The last two made me a bit nervous the mast stood up to it and the final
bend came in
beautifully between the lower and upper shroud
connection points. You will also note that I added a 3/4'' dia rubber plug on the bottom side of the outboard end of the boom. The interdeck grip was especially hard on that and the tiller extentions.
If you look close there is a green 5/32 line that I tied to the goose neck and ran over the top of the mast before lifting the mast to help sight in the amount of bend being put in the mast.
This is the port side of the shroud lines. The short (7'3'') on the star board side ended up way to long (my tape measure lied to me) so I have to go get a new eye on it.
This next project was both my design and build. Wanted a dresser that would have a big enough bottom drawer for blankets and such. The dimensions worked good. Decided to do solid maple stained to look cherry, with a mission design. This worked good have some things that I would do differently but has been a good solid design and held up to all the moves.
This desk is also my design wanted something that I could have a computer and enough room out front to do paper work and drafts. Most of my work is done on CAD now the room out front is still good and again has worked out as a real solid design and built like a tank. Solid oak and stained the famous rich mission color.
The next display case I built for a former employer. The glass was done by some one else and donated and needed a way to show it off. This was a fun project the challenge before me is that all I had is a verbal "I would like to have something in oak with curves". I came up with this on paper and they liked it. The rest is history. Most of the project is solid oak "car siding". The hardest part of the project was the lighting my original idea did not work then revamped with a LED light track right under the glass that worked really good.
The last project is a solid cherry clock that I built. This was built from plans and yet had some interesting challenges. My first clock and the cherry has done a beautiful job of showing off the best part as it gets older the cherry continues to come up with new deeper character. This is a real charm for any house.
