Keelson beveling
Directly after work I jump into my boatshed.
Marked rolling bevel angles for the rest of the keelson. Many cuts!
These cuts would suggest that chiseling the wood is a good idea.
It’s not.
The angle is changing quite rapidly in stem and transom areas. That requires more subtle tools - like planes - since wood grain does not follow this change. I got to know this by hard when I chiseled too deep…
Cursing heavily I switched to planes. Scrub plane for stock removal followed by smoothing plane and block plane. (Note to Albert - get this Veritas scrub plane while it’s available - you will use it more often than you think!).
I still think that making these cuts is worth the effort. Not only that they provide visual guide of how much needs to be removed but also wood chips are shorter thus plane cuts more easily. Siberian lark is quite tough wood.
No sweating about this chipped bit - thickened epoxy likes these imperfections, in fact.
Starboard side got done almost all the way to the stem.
Stem part is a bit more challenging as the garboard turns rapidly there. I leave this for tomorrow, I’m tired after the whole day at the factory.
Sweating like a pig after violent planing (who needs a gym?!) I take a break and go for evening swim in a lake. Coming back after dark I cannot resist checking with the garboard plank if my bevels result in snug fit.
They indeed do!
Plan for tomorrow:
finishing bevels on both sides of the keelson
offering garboard planks, further keelson trimming and hopefully gluing garboards in place
making plywood clamps & wedges for coming planking