Tuesday, February 16, 2010

17ft strip kayak

Hi last year I bought a book about sea kayaks built in strip planking form, and decided that was my next project, after many hours on the internet I went with the default kayak on http://www.blueheronkayaks.com/kayak/index.html

foundry site ,here's is a link to a guy who is way a head of me in the build,

http://www.blueheronkayaks.com/kayak/index.html

so far I have bought a small table saw located the cedar wood for the strips [warning this will be a long slow build] not yet purchased!,but I have bought 1 of 8"x4" 18mm ply for the strongback and a sheet of 18mm MDF for the forms,

the book calls for 1/2" ply but some builders complain that its to flexible when turning over,