JEM Watercraft

I really like the way you have made those clamps.

still on the move with the dk although a bit slow. here is a look at the laminated deck for one end. We have painted inside and out and have to fit the inwales and the seats and frames are almost done as well. http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h148/firestang1/Ply%20Boats/IMG_0007.jpg http://i63.phot...

We did tack it from the inside, and got some glue all the way through , but we also used it as the fillet on the inside as well, not to make something in a new and amazing way but to see what would happen "if" . It was more a trial on what could be done with the stuff . More like , "o...

Thanks for that.
A bit of sweat and dust never hurt anyone

Hi all. Im after a pointer as to what you do to get a perfect smooth glossy Finnish with eh resin/glass. Do you keep applying resin over the first coat to slowly take away the rough matt finish until its totally covered and smooth? if so should this be done at any certain time before the first layer...

Thats what we found as well.
We got the measurements all wrong on one pontoon and decided to see how well it held together as we had glued every join and smoothed it like you would a resin fillet before it dried. It took two of us to rip it apart.

this is what ive been using for tacking

Well i just ordered the pirogue plans, as soon as i finish the dk we are working on its into the pirogue we go

That is what we did with the one in the foreground, well we actually stitched it properly and had the gaps set right and then tacked it with glue first. It was solid as a rock and we were almost tempted to run glue all around all the seams. It is solid with the proper fillet material over the glue s...

We learnt a bit more today about the hot glue caper. It looks to be able to stitch ok and does take some adhesion depending on the type of glue but. We had an issue with the mix of the fillet material where it didn't set, what we found was that it ate the glue away whereas when the mix was right and...