Saturday, January 18, 2014

Scarfing lumber

Today has been quite productive: we managed to work 5 hours at the boat. The new lumber has been delivered in the morning so we devoted the whole day to the stringer scarfing. The building instructions leave the builder free to choose between several options, including simply butting the stringers on the hull panels. Anyway, we decided to scarf because in this way cutting the bevel with the circular saw will be simpler and faster.
Scarfing is not easy! We decided for a 6:1 bevel and used the stairstep scarfing method with an electric plane, finishing with a Surform and an electric sander, but the scarfs were not perfect. However, since the requirements are not that strict, and knowing the gap filling properties of epoxy, we think that the joints will be sufficiently strong.
Here is the stack in the middle of the planing effort


and here are the (almost) finished scarfs


At the end of the day, we prepared 100 g of resin thickened with a few tea spoons of microfibers, aligned everything and put some weight over the glued joints. The temperature in the shop was quite low (14 degrees C) but the epoxy is sandwiched in lumber here, so it should be no problem.
We'll see if it has cured overnight!



Total work time to date: 34 hours.

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