Recent content by Bentpushrod

Seal coat is on.

Beautiful photos! The Green River in UT is one of my bucket list trips. Plan on doing it next year. Welcome aboard.

Very cool!

I’ve developed a bit of an allergy to cedar dust, so I decided to splurge and pick up a Festool sander and dust extractor. Totally blown away with how well it works. Don’t need to wear a respirator anymore, I won’t go so far to say sanding is a joy, but it sure is a lot better than sanding with...

I used a short piece of a strip, put it behind the hull, pushed it up to the bottom of the form, made a pencil mark on the little strip. Then pull the little strip out, line up the pencil mark on the outer hull, and make a new pencil mark at the top. It’s basically transferring the position of...

Yes, stripped down then cut. Worked pretty well.

Stripping is done, sheerline has been cut, now on to the fun sanding part.

I’ve also done the Missouri, 110 miles worth. Put in at Coal Banks, and took out at James Kipp. The trip took 5 days. We did it in May. Saw very few people, was a nice trip. I’ve taken two trips on the lower Yellowstone, both times put in at Intake, and taken out at the confluence of the...

This is pretty embarrassing. On my first trip to the BWCA I was solo. Paddled out to a nice site on the Kawishiwi River, and set up camp. Had a nice steak dinner, and retired to my chair to watch the northern lights. I had the foresight to pack in two stainless growlers of beer from the...

Stripping has commenced. Looking like a banana.

I am an idiot, the new bits are the same size as the old bits. But I did figure out how to set them up lol.

I received the 1/8 bits, and have started cutting bead. This smaller bit works so much better. Pretty monotonous work making these strips. Here’s what the bead looks like.

Thanks for all the help, and that video. I was a bit frustrated so ordered 1/8 bits and walked away from it. With all the great tips you guys provided, think I’ll mess around with my 1/4 bits today and see if I can get acceptable results.

With the bead bit, there is a gap an each side of the strip. When I run a strip through the table, I get a nice round profile on one side of the strip, and not much roundness on the other side. I can adjust the height of the bit up or down, but it doesn’t want to give a nice round edge on both...

Man, I am an idiot. Got all my strips cut. Bought a new router, and table. Went to set the router up for cutting bead, and I failed miserably. I bought a set of cove and bead bits in 1/4. My strips came out to be 7/32. Well those bits are way too big lol. Lesson learned, now going to order new...