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Hello Everybody,
Upon continuing the battle with the stubborn spruce strips that I mentioned last
week, I am pleased to announce that I won!
Yeah!
I soak them for two days in water and the bottom strip will bend okay. The top
strip is also soaked two days but I steam it when bending just to be on the safe
side in case of breakage. Works pretty good. No more breaks.
I am on the eighth rib now. More to be completed this weekend hopefully.
I put additional jig blocks on the board to form more of a captive fixture at the
leading edge area to insure the curve is uniform for each rib. There is a centerline
drawn on each front gusset and the rib plan. There are alignmnent blocks,
at the rear edge of the front gusset, and when the centerlines are matched,
this insures that all the front gussets are uniform in position on all ribs.
Sometimes a jig block has to be moved a bit because all the strips don't bend exactly
the same. Doesn't matter, just as long as the strip matches the rib plan
profile.
I can take small pieces of scrap spruce to wedge inbetween the top and bottom strips
to adjust the curve just like I need in order to make the spruce fit the
profile of the front gusset. All the front gussets are identical due to the 1/4
inch plywood template pattern I used with the disk sander and a guide fence
to uniformly shape them.
It just took some more skullduggery, that's all !
Happy building
Tom Cummings
Sulphur, La.
tomlc@earthlink.net
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