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| | Original Post, JULY 25, 2013 With a little motivation fromMosI decided to build the wooden jointer I've always wanted to build. I'm not sure why, I guess just because its there, but I've restore ...
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| | I decided to start with the bowsprit (aka the pointy bit at the front of the boat). It is the shortest of the spars, although, except for the mast, perhaps the most complicated. And, since I have to start somewhere, why not start at the front? I started by turning one of the spruce boards into three spruce boards. This was done at the table saw at my local tool library.
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| (Don't let the one day between posts fool you. The last post reflected about a month's worth of work, and this one was about a week's worth, including a long weekend.) After gluing up the stretchers, I needed to clean them up before trying to fit them to the legs. Try as I might, I wasn't able to get the two boards perfectly aligned, and, of course, there was glue squeeze-out.