Saturday, April 16, 2011

It's Raining --- Time to Do Inside Work

It's been pouring all day.  Since my shop isn't large enough to build the boat inside I figured I would take care of some simple but necessary tasks like the stem.  The stem is two pieces and made of oak.  In this case it will be made of some white oak that I got from my father-in-law's farm in Tennessee.  Here's a picture of the pattern that I drew up in CAD and printed on my 8 1/2 x 11 printer.  I had to piece together all of the pages and tape them to make the patterns but it worked as you can see from the photo below.  I also made it 5 to 6 inches taller than necessary so that I would have plenty of excess.  Well, I'm off to the backyard shop to cut this out.  I'll post a photo of the finished stem when I complete it.

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