You can say that, Johan. Especially about how I'm going to rejuvenate the planks. But I have not count the minutes/hours .......
In the end:
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Place a beam to be bent on the side of an aluminum strip. Left connected to the outside and secured. Then on the right side, over a length of +/- 25 cm, bent slightly more than 1 mm down so that I got a smooth flowing curve. Because I have to go with my planks from 2.6 mm to 1.5 mm. Then a groove is made in the aluminum along the beam with a knife. That groove accentuated black to have a better view to file the curve along the black line.
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At the bottom of the picture the aluminum strip with the curve, but you have to have a good eye to see that in the photo.
Cut a corner hook in a piece of plywood of 1mm.
Marked on the plywood where the plank connections come every 3-deck-beams. Depending on the position on the deck and therefore on the basis of my drawn template, I can now make an assembly of planks that I need per row. As with planking the hull, I don't use long planks because then I have a high chance of continuous grain at plank seams. But I'm probably going to cut some long planks in their entirety, then shorten them and interchange them.
Use a long plank as a test. Place this against the edge of the plywood with markings.
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The aluminum strip is on the left secured to the outside of the plank. Then secured the right side at just over 1 mm lower.
The aluminum strip fixes the plank well because my planks are just a bit thicker than 1 mm.
With a new sharp scalping blade then cut away the wood that goes from 0.0 to 1.1 mm along the aluminum strip.
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The small irregularities created by the wood fibers are sanded down on a long sanding block so that the curve will run nicely.
The curved cutted side is put to the outside en tested on my test sheet.
Now a few more test strips to see if I will get a nice fitted and flowing pattern.
There must be other ways to rejuvenate a plank. The ones I found were to cut the rejuvenation in a straight line. But I must have a curve in it, otherwise I will not get a rounded connection at the end of the circular waterways.
Regards, Peter