JEM Watercraft

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Joe W.

I’ve been reading Gilpatrick’s “Building a Strip Canoe”(no stem pieces)and Moore’s “Canoecraft”(inside and outside stem pieces). My question is about the heavy stem used in most of the instructions on the internet and in books. Is the layered or carved stem piece necessary to build a strong stripper...

I was interested in strip building sometime ago but had no contacts so I took it off of my, to do list. Now after finding out about S&G and being on my second JEM boat I’m seeing Lee’s Hybrid, Darrel’s Strip Freedom, Craig and now Ron building with prefab panels I have some questions. I guess th...

You know if this catches on it would be a good reason to buy a thickness sander
A lot of models out there, even plans to build some.

How wide are your panels Ron, twelve inches or under could run through a portable planer with long in and outfeed tables.

Joe W.

Yes no filler, like putting a saturation coat on under the fillet. I tried to pop a couple of places in the fillets loose this morning with a sharp chisel before work. The edges would chip where the chisel cut in to the epoxy but everthing seemed tightly in place. All that said from the weather repo...

I'm not using any varnish, only clear epoxy. I'm getting spotty bonding on some bare wood and cured epoxy at my butt joints that is well sanded, and cleaned. I brush clear resin mix on a seam let it cure 24 hours lightly sand then lay down a fillet of wood flour with some glass bubbles. I'm concerne...

Ok I have been moving along on the Southwind. All my seams are hard as a rock and the clear as well as glue mixes on my bulkheads have been fine. Last three days I have been working on fillets and it's been raining for all week. The clear I have primed the seams with for my fillets is peeling up fro...

Dickie you should have a drawing marked "Frame Ref" that gives you straight line mesurments for frame location. HTH

Joe W.

Cool, thank you Matt.

http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae77/bronco303/P1000312.jpg The plan is to make a frame at station #2 and #5 this is 5. http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae77/bronco303/P1000313.jpg I want to cut the center out leaving 1.5 inches around, use the cutout as a hatch. There will be 3 layers in the ...