The mast post detail going in and strong.

Masking of the the boat has begun. The lay out of my lines on the bow were easy taped 2 8x11 paper together to make a square put a point on center then ran that up the bow till the two outside tips hit the side of the boat. Worked out really easy and quick.

Here is the first attempt at using Interlux prime coat. It is a more complex 3-1 mix with reducer never worked with paint like this. It is an epoxy I had a hard battle all the way through this kicked off way to fast and left me with really bad and ugly finish. The good news is that this is all covered with thick paint that has sand in it for traction. The prime coat was all bad news, to hot, to fast of kick off it literally was pulling the foam off of the roller!! The pick below is the Interlux top coat and went on really nice much more like paint! SAILS ARE IN!!!! Thanks to Dave at Baxter sails great service excellent workmanship!!!www.baxtersailmakers.com Start and finish to the bow detail. This was much easier than I thought it would be just some patience, a little skill with a chistle, little knife work and ended up with a real nice fit. Used my scroll saw to cut the angles in and now really wish i could go back and do the wing tips on the same saw it really works well for this multi angle stuff. All you need is a good lay out and eye.

Epoxy and glass work being done on center board also how I did the dagger board. There is a trick to getting glass to lay down on such a thin object. Got to lay the epoxy on thick enough to saturate the glass and catch the runs as needed. Hanging it this way lets you get both sides at once. Varnish work on the boom getting done this is also how I put the epoxy on. Trial fit of mast in both positions just to make sure. Here is the prime coat going down on the bottom side went a lot better two corrections done to help it work better for me first is doing it during the morning during the cool of the day and secondly is that this product works best with thick coats not thin coats. The lay of the lines was simple here my 2'' glass tape over the center joints had the most sin in them. Hind sight tells me I could of covered a lot with a quick layer of #4 glass over the center joint area. At any rate I recovered nicely with this simple lay out used a 12'' roller and laid it out using the holes from the stitching process to establish a consistent mask area. No real math involved just done by eye on the first side until I got what i wanted then transferred all to the second.

First coat of Rochelle red Interlux perfection. Went down a lot easier than their primer. Going to be a seriously beautiful boat. Lots of sanding to get to this point about 3-4 times more than the build time. Final coat looking good. The varnish work on the mast screw in the bottom the pvc cart is a start on a cart for the boat used that to support at the connection end. Not easy to varnish round things the final product turned out good. Here is the dagger board and center board getting varnished. It was easier to leave out the handles until all finishing was done and then touch up the handles. Here is my set up for trimming in the mast and top mast for the connection which I made from aluminum tubing. I found a excellent source at http://www.globatecheng.com/ I went with the 2.5 tube 11 gauge .120 wall then turned off .4o off the out side diameter and left the tube just a little thick at .090. Hope to get better pics of the mast soon.

Paper Jet So Close

Boring Epoxy pics for the next couple of pics yet it really makes the marine grade plywood show off.

Epoxy top side epoxied.

Portside cedar tip both had good and worth all the hand work to make them shine.

Starboard cedar tip detail turned out really nice.

Bow spirit hole in.

The final coat of epoxy makes it hard to know that this beauty will all be covered in paint later.

The bow rub rails are in with a little of a epoxy problem. I put these in between in events and done so in a quick way and recieved due punishment of epoxy that ran out the white that shows under the rail. A bit of sanding took care of it and yet clearly one step forward and two back.

The top mast and bow spirit complete.

LIMBO!!! Yes in the shop. Just kidding this the the boom at 8ft fits well in a 8ft shop just jam it between walls and start all that hand sanding. Way in the back round you can see the dagger board going together.

X frame going in used blue painters tape to keep the epoxy out of the slots.

This is quiet possibablity the bigest mistake. I knew that I would have to trim the X deck to length but never planed to trim the width. I was stupid enought to lay out and cut the slots to manfacured width and never occured to me that I may have to trim the width in. So here lies the proof that even well inted plan can still fail.

X deck is in I am at this point am just hoping that the scrap left over from the center board will be the right fix.

This was my fix to the mistake made when I laid out my X deck

Center Board I was running out of time. It is now May almost June and loosing good sailing weather time still building the boat. So I cheated a little on both the center board here and the dagger board. Ruffed out in the table saw and roughter and then planed and sanded by hand. Still lots of hand work I like doing it just wish I had started the build earlier so the good weather and water was not calling my name.

PAPER JET UP DATE (GETTING THERE)

The wing framing continues here. Getting things lined up epoxied in and such.

The center mound going in. First step was to dry fit it then use masking tape to assemble it. Seccond was take it off the mound and epoxy fillet the interior let cure and then epoxy it down to the deck.

The start of the mast support frames.

Dry fit of those solid cedar wing tips. The call on the directions was to filp the boat over I was able to do it right side up with some help from quick grip. Hind sight tells me that gluing the cedar to thick ness (two 3/4 boards) then cutting the angle cut that meets the bow was the wrong move. I used the table saw to do this and yet think it would be better to cut that angle on a scrol saw with the table set at a 38-45 deg angle cut the two boards then glue them to thickness and sand to finish. The table saw worked out ok but created a lot of hand work to get the cedar to bump in to fit. Doing this step one 3/4 board at at time would be little easer.

This show a little of the clamp detail for the wing tips look closely and see that the blue quick grip is just over the edge and holding up ward pressure on to a half inch popular strip shown in next picture.

This is the under side basically the popular strips are screwed to wing frames keeping upward pressure on wing tip while epoxy dries.

The under side of the complete wings now getting epoxy fillets in all joints against hull.

The epoxy fillet here is where keeping all scrap off the ply wood sheets work out very well. The half moon shapes from the center cut outs for the mast support is the perfect filleting tool for this fillet. Just sand mark for max material condition mix epoxy and go.

The boat is officially out of the house. The house worked out well just ready to have my living room back after about three months. Started the build Dec 23 out by April 3. Moving along good now is the start on all that sanding.

Just a 4x8 foldable trailer that I got for $200 made my v blocks from 3/4 play wood scrap laying around and used 1/2 in pipe insulation for bumpers. Tempory untill I get sanding and epoxy on then 2x4s covered in carpet that tilt like what is on boat trailer will go on the back. Still having great fun with this project.

CHERRY CUPBOARD AND DISPLAY CASE

I was fortunate enough to have a customer send me final pics of this project. The build pics are on down on the page.

This is the start of a cup board and display case. Solid cherry in picture above is where it started and finished out as I had planed and designed. Customer brought me just the need and sizes of cups and plates and how many the rest I came up with. I wish I had gotten more pictures of the processes to give a better understanding into such a project. It is a 30 x 30 x5 case but has over 54 joints the rest of the pictures show the work comming together.

The back framing assembly the panneled framming is all half lap joints where most of the 54 joints take place.

Here is the middle shelves kept the half lap joint flowing right through every thing once the case sides, and top were on it ended up a very solid unit.

Assembly of sides top starts and looks good finished all interior serfaces before assembly.

Side view finished product.

Top view of the beautiful cherry.

Front view glass gave me flash back.

Front view no flash back give a better idea of pannel details, and hooks. Just a grove in all surfaces to hold the plates.

Last thoughts include wish I had a better supplier for cherry really good stuff just would of been nice to have a little straighter half inch material.