Jiggs
To have some rest from melting lead and extracting keel bolts (I just reached the second nut! ) I prepare for epoxy work with lamell-glued ribbs. These will be built to repair broken frames on Meritaten - all at the turn of the bilge.
If there were just few frames I would not bother with making the jigg but since there are many - it should be easier with proper tools.
Besides - Glypto also requires reframing.
First tool needed is something to take the shape of existing frame in a boat. Glued sticks, cardboard, spilling - all these will do the job but I like chain template as it is the fastest and looks cool!
I intended to make my own but, as a custom, I checked first on blocket.se.
Well - here there was: Johan is making them on CNC router at reasonable cost, delivering complete with screws and wing nuts. I got mine very quickly and I’m impressed by the quality. Nice time saver!
The second part of the puzzle is lamination jigg. In principle it is a table top to which you attach solid anchor points to be used for holding gluing laminate in place. Anchors are spaced to match the shape taken with, for example, chain template.
Since I will be building 20+ laminates I’ve decided to make it adjustable.
Nothing fancy but it took me few hours to prepare all wood pieces and assemble them into square and true jigg.
At the end of the day I got 1 x 1,4m working space with 15 movable anchor points. Dry fitting to example shape shows that there is a chance that this will work.