At around 1 PM we went to buy lumber, with a final bill of about 650 Swedish Crowns (65 euro)
The wood is primarily Spruce (Gran).
I got out the circle saw, and started ripping the planks for gunwales, deck ribs and chines/keel.
with the gunwales, chines/keel and deckribs cut to width i had two spare boards, apparently I overbought... :P
I started work on the gunwales, marking out all the deck rib locations, and mortises for the ribs, and got out the router to make the mortises.
When i built my first kayak I tried several different methods for making the mortises, with mostly a lot of trouble and time wasted.
This time I used the router, with a 6 mm drill (didn't have an 8 mm)and basically drilled 3 holes, and then connected them with the router. (when I tried just making it as one hole with the router it kept veering to the side and ruining it)
and then afterwards going over the holes again with an 8 MM chisel. (best investment ever)
So after about 5 hours of work i had all mortises cut so a piece of the rib stock fitted in, and the sheerlines and all such cut, and ready to be fitted into the forms.
As i was bending it, and asking my girlfriend to push the form a bit further in (when this picture was taken) I learned that 5 hours of work can be lost in a split second.
apparently one of the gunwales didn't quite like bending that far (seemed fine when I tested it before starting work on it)
fortunately, I had extras, the first plank I sawed up cracked when I tested it (more thuroughly this time)
but with my last spare plank I cut out a gunwale and spent about an hour and a half getting to the point I was before, and this time managed to get them into the forms without cracking them.
and of course, when I wanted to put my rib stock in water to soak, the tub I usually use had broken, so I have to buy a new one during the week and go out with it to soak the ribs.
Also, going away next weekend, so the deckribs, and bending will have to wait untill the weekend after.
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