Little by little as they say. I want to put the finishing touches on a few jobs that have been lingering in the shadows. So of course, another job shows up on my doorstep. This one is for my wife's sister. The El-cheapo windmills twisted the necks off the fans over the winter. I just glanced at them, but it doesn't look like too difficult a repair.
My last year at the high school I started building a wooden boat. I was making good progress, and the students were learning. And then I had the heart attack and that was the end of boat building along with the end of my high school teaching career. The boat got moved into my woodshop and basically has been languishing there ever since. The original plans came from Wooden Boat magazine with the author building the boat step by step with hand tools.
Since it's a lapstrake boat, the bottom edge of the planks, actually the top edge since the boat is built initially upside down, have a relief cut so the next plank will lay in nicely with a 3/4" overlap. I only got one plank done using a rabbet plane and a chisel. It came out okay but extremely time consuming. Harbor Freight had a trim router at a good price for their club members, so I bought one for the express purpose of cutting the rabbets figuring I could make a piece to bolt on that would allow me to cut a nice even width and at the proper bevel angle. As soon as I finish cutting the corners off the aluminum plate in the photo, that piece should be done. However, I'm going to need some longer screws to fasten it to the router and they seem to be some odd ball thread. They appear to be 4mm diameter, but the standard pitch is .7 and these are .75. This is going to take some looking into.
It's just never easy.
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