Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Cutting frames
Over the last couple of days I've marked and cut the frames and bulkheads. I've got a little more work to do on them, as I need to cut out the holes for the hatches on a few, but need to wait for my hatches to arrive. I kept forgetting to order them. I also need to add the wood support stringers to stiffen them up, which means I need to hit the lumber yard.
Thus far things have gone well, but slow. I'm being extra careful, because I'm terrified of making a big mistake that is expensive/difficult/kludgy to fix. So I do things like score the plywood before cutting it with the jigsaw, despite the fact the nearly all of the cuts will all be covered over with epoxy, because a few of them won't be, and I'll likely forget one an then have to do a bunch of filling and sanding which will take more time than if I had scored it in the first place. Sure, I could just carefully look through the plans to determine which cuts should be scored, but better safe than sorry.
I'm roughly 10 hours in at this point. You can see some tape on a one of the bulkheads. That's because I am afraid I'll snap those little deck supports off, so I taped on some scrap as a brace.
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