Boom Gallows work and Beginning Mast

I finished up the boom gallow over these past couple weeks.  I forgot to take pictures of the Rigid Planer in action, but I moved everything outside as to not make a mess inside. This was the first time I used my thickness planer. It worked pretty well. Took a little time to get used to and was making a strange noise. Still not sure what that is??   I took the boom gallow down to 1 1/2 inches per the instructions and then used the bandsaw to cut out the final shape. 

This past weekend I used my Orbital Festool sander to sand down using 80 and then 120. I then took it outside and used my router to do a 1/4" round-over on all the edges. I was very pleased with the way it turned out. Next up on this will be to apply 2 coats of epoxy and then varnish. Will need to wait till warmer weather for this.

While I had the thickness planer outside, I marked all the mast pieces "staves" I need to build the mast. I marked the scarf joint on all the 8 pieces and used my hand planer to get down to the pencil lines. I will use a hand plane to get the rest. I need to sharpen my hand planes and just purchased "Wood Sharp 3000" for this purpose.  I will let you know how that turns out. 

Below is some of the mess I made in the driveway. I like the clean-up using a leaf blower!!! :-) Just blow it in the woods! 

Next up will be cleaning up the scarf joints and working on the tiller. I have all the wood strips cut and made a new jig out of some pressure treated wood. I just used the pattern for the tiller and marked one edge on the pressure treated wood and then cut out with jigsaw. This gives me the shape to clamp down on when epoxying them together. 

Below is the clamping jig. I used the same piece of wood as the boom gallow and you can see the 2 pieces screwed to the jig to hold it to the table.  Also on one side of the tiller where it fits into the rudder, I had to add a couple of short pieces to get the thickness.  With the tiller only being 3/4 inches, I am hoping I can get 2 tillers out of it. Maybe 1 to use as a spare.  The two types of wood I am using are Ash and Mahogany.  The pieces are just dry fitted. 

Boom Gallow and Planer work!

Not a lot of boat building. Been under the weather and my wife broke her wrist, so life has been a little busy with Dr. appointments.

I did manage to spend a little time working on things. I glued up the strips of wood and used about every clamp I  had to clamp things together.  Since it was still cold in the garage, I used work lights for about 36 hours to make sure the epoxy cured. Below are a couple of pictures. I mixed up two large batches of epoxy and coated both sides of the wood on each strip with a cut short chip brush. There was a lot of squirt out, but I wanted to make sure I had things glued properly.

Today I unclamped everything and used my electric hand planer to do a rough clean-up of the finished product. I think it turned out pretty good.

Below is the boom gallow before any clean up. 

Below are the pictures of the boom gallow after I ran the electric hand planer over both sides. I really like my new Dewalt hand planer. It works very good!

Next up I plan on running the boom gallow through my planer to get it down to the final thickness. I think it is 1 1/2 " . I have yet to use it and just this last week bought the Dewalt planer stand for my Rigid planer. It took me a good 2 hours to put that together today and bolt the planer to it. This way I can move it out in the drive way where I can make a big mess!

Next up is to glue the tiller and work on planing things as well as start working on the mast.