Hmm...well, I've just glued up both chinelogs. I knew there was a reason for procrastinating over this one, he said trying to get the glue out of his hair and off his boots, tools... At least I managed to keep the camera lens clear of the stuff! BUT - I didn't noticed that I'd bumped the program dial on the blessed thing until about half way through taking snaps. Oh well - concentrating on the process is much better than concentrating on a process viewing the process.
The mess wasn't as bad as I've painted it (as it were), but messier than I would have liked. I lost count of the pairs of gloves, too, not to mention the ones that split when donning because I appear to have got a size too small.
Anyway, the actual locating of the tape and the two glued-up sets wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I suspect that I've been using cyanoacrylate too long (on the aircraft), and have got used to glues that go off in seconds or less, rather than an hour or less.
And next time I use the powders, I m going to fluff the stuff up a bit (wearing the heavy-duty snout protector and outside the workshop!) with the useful flour sifter and/or pair of (snaffled, ahem ;) soup spoons that I use to break up the clumps of Q-cels for aircraft fairing, etc. I spent far too long (in my opinion) breaking up the lumps in the high-strength powder and homogenising the mixture.
Anyway, some photos to demonstrate that this part of the build is in fact done, after weeks of quacking about it (well, it is a duck, innit?).
1. The two sets of chinelogs, glued, taped and clamped. The heavy duty snout protector sits quietly in the background, having a conversation with the BoteCote booklet and MIK's instruction manual.
https://www.woodworkforums.com/pictur...pictureid=1718
2. The complete array (again), from the bow end looking aft. I'm really glad I got those extra clamps the other day, but could have done with more of them to clamp between the stations...
https://www.woodworkforums.com/pictur...pictureid=1719
3. Two chinelogs, two clamps...
https://www.woodworkforums.com/pictur...pictureid=1720
4. Some more clamps added to squeeze back some wayward between-station outer laminate sections that were trying to escape westwards...
https://www.woodworkforums.com/pictur...pictureid=1721
5. I did, however, have all these small spring clamps, which I pressed into service;
https://www.woodworkforums.com/pictur...pictureid=1727
6. There y'are, a forest of clamps. That's pretty well it for this stage (thank goodness, I can move on now), apart from some cheese removal...er, done while I waited for the last two images to upload :).
https://www.woodworkforums.com/pictur...pictureid=1728
I've got to get the saw set up now to chop up some bits of oregon for frame parts, coaming/carlins and gunwales.