Subject: RE: [baidarka] Skinning Question...
From: Aaron Cunningham (acunning@seanet.com)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 11:21:13 EDT
Thank you very much Wolfgang. That's working beautifully. I got the bow
box stitch done last night.
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-baidarka@paddlewise.net
> [mailto:owner-baidarka@paddlewise.net]On Behalf Of wolfgang brinck
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:21 AM
> To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
> Subject: Re: [baidarka] Skinning Question...
>
>
> --- Aaron Cunningham <acunning@seanet.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > In a desire to make some measurable progress my wife an I stretched
> > the hull
> > and stapled it to the gunwales. The hull is now 'drum tight', as
> > desired.
> >
> > So to the question...
> >
> > Do y'all think I should:
> > 1. Remove the 'shoelace' line, and simple sew the deck seam,
> > trusting in
> > that to keep the whole assembly tight when I remove the staples.
> > 2. Replace the now missing lacing loop, carefully tighten the
> > 'shoelace',
> > using that to keep the hull tightening stress, then sew the deck
> > seam.
>
> I would say, go with option 1. Most easy and since the hull is tight,
> the sewing process will take care of tightening up the deck. I would
> remove the staples though as I sewed the deck seam past them rather
> than wait til the whole seam was complete.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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