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I really like the way you finished this boat. The White Cedar has a great color, and with the horizontal layout of all the strips and zero accent strips, it has a mellow, measured appearance I really enjoy. Stacking the extra strips at the stems the same way continues that smooth, steady...

Thanks folks. With respect to practice, that is somewhat what this particular build would be. Rehearsal for carving carvel planking, but on softer wood and where gaps aren't as crucial. Guessing station spacing is more important with square edged strips as well. The bead and cove assists in...

Wow! I'm a Jeep fan: my daily driver is an '86 rust and dent free all original CJ7. But I think I'd make your trade. Number of years back I was in process of buying an undyed, 100% beaver cowboy hat. A lady I was buying band materials from suggested checking thrift stores. I said: "Hardly...

In a 7yro thread on Jimmy Clamps to avoid staples on Stripper builds, Jim Dodd mentioned he is a big fan of Bead and Cove joints. I thought anyone who had any type of education in Stripper building used them, that there was no other viable option for a reasonable individual. However, the...

Thrift stores in Maine sell boats? I gotta get to Maine.

The holes are what I was thinking of not dents and maybe I was thinking of screw holes because I know I was thinking of toothpicks to fill them. Staples holes would be hard to see close up even left alone. Bead and cove fan? Is there any other vaguely rational way to do it? I do recall...

Thank you for the reply to clear things up, Mark. I am aware of the purpose of staples: holding strips against form and glue line until glue bonds. I intend to avoid their use because in my personal opinion: the finest quality artwork shows no evidence of tool marks. A finely concealed tool...

Super psyched to see these. Sounds like staples are an issue with more passionate debate than I realized? Not sure what toes I might be stepping on when I say I reject the concept of them, figuring out a way to avoid them has been a wrench in the works for planning a cedar stripper build in...

After drying in place for 24hrs, third (middle) frame was not compressed at all, and first (fore) frame was half an inch narrower than specs. I slid gunnels back in the tube overnight. Removed battens, re-trued frames to level and straight, reinstalled gunnels this morning. I reduced the stem...

If anything else, I’d like to contribute these 1mm cotton cords to the world of SoF boat building methods. Pretty much everybody always uses zip ties. One time use pieces of plastic that are tricky to use, have sharp corners that dent the wood we’re working with, and did I mention one time...

Yeah, Gamma, good research on the moisture levels coming and going in the wood. With steaming though, it’s not water inside the wood, its the heat softening the Lignin glue of the tree, and letting the fibers of wood slide alongside one another. But yeah I’ve heard soaking them pre-steam helps...

Thank you! For all four of those. That might be the best way. I'll have a clearer view of the part and can watch it doesn't twist as I add the additional bend. I'll still probably have to build the form (to this step I added using that arced form the gunnels were resting on in early picture...

Well it is not working. I am trying to figure out stem shape and and forward quarter bilge turn and there is a whole discussion I wanted to make on this but my mind can't focus on that at the moment. I set gunnels on frames and lashed PVC pipes to them as well, slid things around to see where...

I started from the bow, kind of. Gentry instructs spacing this boat as starting from forward frame. Each frame is 27in behind the one forward, and transom is set 27in aft of the rearmost frame. Then the peak of the stem is 27in forward of the first frame. I think he even writes 'about' on the...

What I got now is frames on the keelson. I have read, and followed, stacks of DIY Instruction Manuals. I consider myself an educated assessor of their quality, completeness, clarity. David Gentry’s manual for the Shenandoa Whitehall is among the best I have seen. I only found a single...

Thanks Jim, from a man of your experience and acceptance in an industry that understands quality, that means a lot. Its why I gravitate towards boatbuilding. I love the feel of waves and wind moving me on another dimension than solid ground, I love meditating on the astounding metaphysical...

Tips. I hear heating the wood up with a heat gun (hair dryer for those who are partnered up) helps draw CPES deeper into wood. I have a heat gun (no partner) but it seemed easier to lay the frames out on a sunny Tennessee August afternoon. The SculptWood, if wiped off with a blade, seemed to...

Gottem filled in. Three coats of CPES so far, think I'll do a fourth after a touch up on the putty. Sanded with 120 after the first, 220 after the second, presumably carry on with that scheme. CPES is neat stuff, Clear Penetrating Epoxy Sealer, I used SystemThree's version called simply...

Yeah that is some good advice, Jim. Concepts and techniques. I might come quarter of the way to you and paint the putty... Okoume is the ugliest of plywoods: bland of grain and off in color, but the painteds of these boats look a bit plastic to my eye. I am/was considering staining the Okoume...

I mentioned there is an element of this construction I am unhappy with. It is the Mahogany caps on the Okoume frames. I did a less than perfect job at shaping the inner edge of the frames, or a less than perfect job at the steam bend, less than perfect job at the attaching, or all three. And...