Subject: Re: [baidarka] Multi-segmented Ribs
From: Mark Wade (marksharky@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 09:18:25 EDT
If you are thinking about using forms to shape your ribs, you may want to
check out Mark Starr's book, Building a Greenland Kayak. In the book he
shows how he uses a seperate mold for each rib. I find it easiest to use
Chris Cunningham's pre-bending jig and then do the final fitting by eye.
>From: "Peter Chopelas" <pac@premier1.net>
>Reply-To: baidarka@paddlewise.net
>To: <baidarka@paddlewise.net>
>Subject: Re: [baidarka] Multi-segmented Ribs
>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 18:06:54 -0700
>
> > Do you make a separate form for each and every rib?
>
>That depends on the application, if I intend to make more than yes. Often
>you can "cheat" the form by shimming it. Simple or short curves you make
>by
>building up a few blocks or wedges, and a piece of plywood. Make them long
>and trim to fit. You can also make a perhaps 3 or 4 dummy plywood forms
>and
>assemble your stringers and and keel below the gunwals, and then laminate
>them in place right on the stringers (using lots of clamps or even a length
>of old bungy cords to holt the build up to the stringers). You remove the
>plywood forms when you are done assembling it.
>
>Peter
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