Hull Work

I hadn't milled enough pawlonia, so back to sawing. This time I plain-sawed the 1" board and split the 1" strips in half, rather than making a 5/8" strip and wasting 1/4". 

This saved wood & gave me a lot of slim strips. Progress across the hull seemed very slow!
Stems. I sawed several 3/4 x 1/8" pine boards, and made a bending jig of Masonite:

Didn't work well. The strips tended to crack instead of bending, when heated.
I found that the strips I was using for the stem lamination were really too thick to make the curve, and I had to re-do the stems with really thin strips. 

Shaping. Going routinely.