More Stripping

The instruction manual advocates some type of stripping technique I'm unfamiliar with, sort of how Vaclav cuts in inlays, but I decided to go at it by bending strips with the heat gun.

There was a considerable twist necessary at the stern-the stern stem is narrow and skeg-like.

A spot where I had to improvise a little. I had trouble getting the strips to reach the internal stem, so I beveled & glued them to each other. when I started shaping the ends. they were too far apart to be covered by a 3/4" strip, so I pulled them together and glued in a piece of strip.

Another improvisation. I glued a center strip on top of the first, so I'd have a place to glue subsequent strips. I hope that the picture is more descriptive than my words!

I figured out a new way to get the center strip aligned straight. I had noticed in previous build that it always looked straight after the first two strips were glued to it, so this time, instead of struggling to get the center strip straight by itself, I cut and planed the two bottom strips before nailing the center strips in. I placed the strips in (dry),checked the center strip for alignment then tacked in the center strip. Looks very straight!