A plywood canoe.
The main bulk of this boat is again made from a single sheet of 4mm plywood, and was cut out on the CNC machine.
Plywood laid out on the CNC machine bed. |
Starts to cut out the pieces |
all pieces of the Canoe |
The next step is to clean up the edges of the pieces and then epoxy and tape the panels together.
The masking tape helps to make a neater job of the epoxy. |
Nearly done |
These longer joined pieces are necessary to be able to make a canoe longer than 8ft.
The epoxy was left to go hard over night and then the tape was removed, then more tape was added as below
This is to make taping the seems when the canoe is all together a much easier and less messy job. In theory anyway. The masking tape is stepped in to accommodate for the epoxy and cloth tape that will be used on the seems.
The design of this canoe is from:
And is the Little Guide.
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