On Aug 22, 15:17, Taylor, William J wrote:
> Subject: RE: very belated bio

> C'mon John. We need details. What kind of boat, how long under
> construction, what tools etc.

Think I covered most of this answering Ed Bell, but not what tools...

#4, #5, and #7 planes - mostly the #4 for planing bevels & trimming
overlaps and general smoothing - I just got a #3 but haven't degunked
and sharpened it.

block planes, including the #160 (is that the right number? - the one
where the side comes off so you can use it as a rabbet plane - a very
useful plane), a #93 rabbet (which is the wrong one, but it's what I got
- lapstrake boats need a beveled, sloped rabbet called a gain cut near
the bows, for which you need a plane narrower than the rabbet, so I
really needed the #92. If I were building a serious seagoing boat I
guess I'd need a #10)(incidently, I can't imagine how to cut a gain with
a power tool).

Drills & screwdrivers (straight, since that seems to be what the makers
of bronze screws like). (still looking for a nice brace, and a long
auger for a couple of long holes yet to come).

A non-descript but old Disston crosscut, a new but dull backsaw, a
coping saw.

Some files and chisels - late model Stanleys :-(

A vast number of clamps.

A bandsaw (I know it's a powertool, but it'd be a lot harder building a
boat without it).

A measuring tape, a steel rule, 3 or 4 squares, a couple of bevel
squares, a framing square.

Seems like I'm forgetting stuff...it seems to take a bunch of tools to
build even a small boat.

> By the way welcome and the customary penalty for posting personal mail
> to the list is you have to shine the spittoons unless Paddy has come
> up with some other more disgusting job lately.

Given what I've read from O'deen, I think I'll happily polish the
spittoons afore he thinks of something worse.

John

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