Because I’ll be heading back to Michigan in about ten days and I wanted to keep working on my kit I opted to not built the assembly mold at this time. Instead I’ve built my keel assembly then jumped to making frames starting with #01. The hard part was jumping in with that first frame; filing all glueable joints and chocks clean of burn, then figuring out how I was going to lay the pieces out to accurately make up the frame. First I went to Home Depot and bought a 3’ square glazed tile to work on. Then I spread a piece of plastic cling wrap across the bottom third of the tile. With that setup I could slip each of the frame prints under the film then lay out my frame pieces directly on the drawing. I’ve been using carpenters wood glue for the glue up. After applying glue to each piece and waiting for a couple of minutes I used finger pressure to squeeze the joints together making sure my frame pieces were directly over the drawing outline. After a half hour or so I could remove the frame and set it aside to cure and start another. After a few like this I started building two at a time. Now, I can clean up the joints on one set (2 frames, A and B sides) in about 35 minutes and I can glue up two frames in 15 minutes and in 45 minutes start the glue up process again.
This way when I go North I’ll be ready to sand frames to the lines in my wood shop. Right now after 5 days I have 18 frame sets finished and should have the 37 done by next week.
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