Building the Catalina Wherry - Part 38 - Breasthook Pt.2

welcome back to Nomad boat building I'm Mark rotin and in the last episode of building the Catalina wary we started to work on the breast hook we got our pattern made and we started to fabricate a blank from which to build the breast hook now I was going to get that glued up before this episode but I'm a wooden boat builder and where is delusion where is delusion delusion delusion delusion delusion hell I don't know the word is anymore delusional delusional oh man all right I'm going to make delusional bu a word now I wanted to get that glued up before this episode but I'm a wooden boat builder and we're as delusional about time management as Architects are so that did not get done so we're going to kick things off by briefly looking at how we're putting that breast hook together again and we're going to get that thing glued up and move on to the actual cutting and fitting so sit back and relax let me take care of the work all right here's our finished part we might a spline up here just some more Oak drop that in there of course if we try and slide these together they're not going to fit because these are intended to be raised up at a slight angle so if we put those together now look at that that's a nice tight joint so I suppose you might ask why are we putting a spline in here at all well we could absolutely just glue those two joints together just like so that would probably hold just fine however the boat's coming and going we got stress happening this way a little bit of move wood movement this way um we want this to tie the end of the boat together nicely and the more structure we can create in here the better adding a spline to this it basically doubles our glue joint so we have this surface here that gets glued but now we have all these other surfaces that get glued too so this surface is part of this same surface right they're in the same plane but now we've got one two three four other surfaces that are getting tied together and that is very difficult to blow apart also we can have a slightly change in Grain going through the spline and so that's going to help hold it together too so your spline material you want it to make it out of stuff that's either equally as hard as the rest of your stock or harder and I've just decided the oak is probably fine I'm just going to go with that I'm not going to bother putting anything different in there partially cuz I kind of like that to disappear I'm not a huge fan of a lot of contrast and things like this I'd rather just see it disappear than have this really dark spline showing up because I've used purple heart or something like that my spline has got just a little bit of wiggle room it's maybe um maybe a shy 16th shallow overall and but that's going to be enough room for that glue to sort of squeeze out and uh and leave enough room for this whole joint to come together too tightly okay one more more little detail is the grain orientation in that spline so I've made this vertical grain and uh the reason for that is in species like Oak especially we have two different types of grain we have the annular rings and then we have the medular Rays and let me just show you the tail end of this guy we clearly see some of the meary Rays running right through this stock and they run perpendicular to the annual rings so there's two of them right there those the strongest bits of grain in your wood and that's why when you look at flat Sun wood and that flat Sun wood tends to crack well it cracks right along these mular Rays so they're really really tough and they all radiate right out from the pith you can see them all coming flaring out of the the pth area here in this particular piece and over here yeah you can see them quite a number of them cutting across the grain there and that's what gives you this sort of Fleck pattern here if this can show up in the light you see these little these little Flex of uh material especially this when we see classic quarteron you get these s of funny little ribbons coming in through here that's the medular Rays that's them passing through the surface of the wood and so in our spline basically we have meary arrays cutting through that spline and that's going to provide a lot of strength across this joint all right that looks great let's get this glued up and we can move on to next job all right whenever I mix up these type of epoxies I'm using glex I I like to do it on a scale actually usually I've got a really nice little scale that West system makes but uh mind crapped out on me wood chips everywhere I don't really like using these one to one epoxies I I I I don't know why I just I find them really awkward to try and uh get the mix right I mean with the the 5:1 epoxies of course they've got pump systems that go with it so that makes it easy and then for some reason these one to ones are all a bit I don't know see look at this I thought I had I either end up making twice more twice what I need or I end up making half as much as I need and I can't seem to find the The Sweet Spot between those I also hate the consistency of them they're real thick and gooey at least glex is I find it just a really difficult consistency to work with doesn't like to brush very well yuck come on see there we are I got to mix some more up already onto the scales zero it and then one delivered at a slightly different rate than the other the resin isol is a little I guess it's uh the resinol is a little faster to pour than the hardener so it's hard to judge hard to judge if you're getting them right just blew through my cup I know I'll just stick another cup under there okay we'll finish doing our stick and get that in not going to bother adding any um fillers to this just because it's so thick and gooey on its own that don't think I need it no that's not going to work now how to get this to stay put see look at that my joint which was once coming together just fine now doesn't want to come together all about epoxy there we go oh quit sliding didn't anticipate that H don't know what I can do to stop it from doing that stay there don't come on that is amazingly hard to move one more more okay I'm going to try and use a pinch dog to keep it from moving back where it was this where I wish I'd used i' thickened the epoxy cuz now it's all drooling out of here all right smear it on to the next one now remember this this joint that's right on the face is not going to be there when we're done it's all going to get carved away so as long as everything inside is filled we're good okay time to fit the breast hook um we got a problem we need to work out bevels for the sides of this uh but we need a common reference face to do that I'll be putting like a stick across the gunnels in order to measure the bevels but these are sitting up at an angle obviously so I need to figure out some way of dealing with that and so here's what we're going to do we're just G flip this guy over something to keep it from wobbling around we're going to add just a piece of blocking on the back side here that will level this out so that when I run it on the band saw it's not tipping from one side to the other or the edge of the band saw isn't it's not the part isn't falling off the band saw so I'll just use this piece of ply to give myself a couple lines like so I'll just buzz this down and then we'll drop it on here and we'll just glue it in place okay there we go so now I want to run this on the band saw that uh little cleat on the back should mostly register on the uh tabletop in the area that I don't have two edges registering on the tabletop so I think that'll work out pretty good so now to do a little bit of cutting and uh and fitting so I think first thing I want to do is I've got my pattern here that's going to go on here roughly I need to just make sure that I've got the that this is wide enough or figure out how much wider I need to go than this in order to get this to fit CU obviously this was taken when it was like that and now we're tipping it down which means we're losing a bit of width so I'm going to play around with that a little bit and see if I can figure out the best way to sort that out I decid I would uh decided I would try and recreate this and do a little bit better job of it a little less messy so I can see what I'm doing that bat is going to be way too stiff this represents the stock okay so what it means is if my stock is here and this is my finished surface first of all this tells me how much I'm going to have protruding above the gunnels that I have to pull off somehow and this tells me or rather this one need to be extended this tells me how much bigger I need to lay out my line to hit this point is that correct I think so that's only about a strong 16th at the surface of my wood H doesn't seem like much I think what that means is if I take this guy and I slide it out strong 16th that should be about right to land where I want it to it'll do that so let's see I kind of feel like I should come out a full eighth let's see pick a spot great there is our squaring point okay then we flip this over and we do the same This falls into the fingers crossed category I guess most worst case scenario is if I'm little shy I've I'll be taking more off the bottom which is harder to do okay I got to work out a few um level and then I'm ready to cut and then okay we've got one set of bevels back here that we're going to need which is we don't even really need them right now but uh it's basically this one just going to actually Mark that on here go this way so it's the one we need close to here and we're when we're taking bevels we want to come square off of the face of the planking not not like this this is how the saw cuts that's the that's the angle that we want so I'm going to come up right up here close to the stem pick up another bevel all right that's the one we want to cut to because it's going to be a little bit huh actually cuz you want to cut to the one that's more Plum it's funny it's showing this one is more Plum I wouldn't think that would be the case the other side so that's much different starboard it's close enough to the same port to check on this side yeah port and starboard why are these two two so different maybe I got this one wrong yeah I did yep so they're the same okay always good to double check your work and then there's one more we need and that's right up here it's this one mark this on the other side stem okay and that's all basically off the sheer line our breast hook will be coming up from that I'm just going to figure out how far back from the surface I need to put this oh boy Tricky Tricky Tricky I know what I need what I need is the width of this on here and 3/4 so we say 1 and 38 so we need to be about strong 16th forward to hit our Mark there too [Music] [Applause] [Music] sh 0:21:58.040,1193:02:47.295 [Music] all right added some tape just so I can see better there goes nothing [Music] make to shim this [Music] up [Music] so here's my blank we're beveled in theory to match the planking angle at the bow here has to get changed back here but I came to a decision I decided everything related to trying to fit this nice ly with these and be captured in Behind these frames is a huge pain in the ass um I can't even really stick it in here to see if I'm close right now because of these guys being in the way uh so I think what I decided to do is I'm just going to knock down the tops of these frames when this is done these guys will cover the tops of the frames and the in whales will come and tie in here and so they'll sit down they'll sit down here something like this and I think that's going to be a much more satisfactory solution or at least it's going to speed up fitting this thing by like five times probably because trying to fit things in a captured space is is tough espcially because of this bevel right here because this and these are not at the same angle was going to think about that for a little while longer before I yeah I think even if I try and cut these back like I'm I'm almost guaranteed that I'm going to screw it up and get the distance wrong is that correct is that is my thinking correct I'm not 100% sure I almost need to uh get this out of the [Music] way all right let see now yeah yeah I don't I don't like it I don't like it okay now just working on my fitting I I got a big gap here at the front then the uh of the breast hook which kind of pisses me off uh well I think we'll get rid of it I've got some ideas if I can't get rid of it but um what I'm working on now is getting these two sides fitted so this side doesn't fit so good this one I is is closest so I'm going to dial it in first so what I'm just doing is uh doing this little rocking motion and looking for just like we did with the frames looking for that point where you can see it kind of pivoting around one spot or another right about there so take a few Stripes swipes off of [Music] there let me try it again there we go and it doesn't really want to rock my angle back here is pretty good my angle up here is good I got a light down inside of it so I can see all the way along you know like yeah the lights sneaking through here and there in a couple of [Music] spots but uh epoxy fit is what we're going for [Music] right better okay over here we've got about a a heavy 16th there and it's tight in through here so my goal now is let letting this side guide me as I work my way this way and hope like hell that my seam lands on the center line now if it doesn't all I can do is start is tweak whatever side is sitting off to one side I tweak it back and it'll pull that seam over as I do it and as I'm doing that it's also closing up this Gap at the very end checking my angles as I go too I can see I need to angle this one a bit more I've got a finishing nail up here on the stems controlling my height there so that's staying cons [Music] constant better right near the front right near the front I know some of you viewers out there might be kind of bored with this particular video I know it's a lot of talking it's a lot of heads scratching but for those who are new to building who are trying to figure out how to do this stuff I think watching me go through this process is important now I it's not the only way to do it of course this just the way I'm doing it and you're not getting to see every little step of the way because that would be a lot more boring but I think watching me go through a bit of it has some real value to those who are trying to learn how to do this sort of work and I'm making these videos primarily for those viewers so for the rest of you I appreciate you watching and if this isn't to your taste well go ahead and click forward or jump to another video all right let's get back to it there's a little knot here so of course the plane is struggling every time you hit that it takes off just a little bit less than all around it there we go that's looking better it's a good solid fit my Gap is closing up quite a bit [Music] [Music] more it's a little bit like doing dishes you know it sort of sucks they got to get done and sometimes you just got to be satisfied with the fact that you're getting stuff [Music] done feeling like my block plane could use a little touchup it's getting a bit slippery okay now that we've got our breast hook fitted we can move on to shaping it sculpting it now that's going to take quite a bit of time and we are all out of it for this episode so I hope you join me again on the next episode when we do that now I really appreciate you watching these videos but what I would appreciate even more is if you could help support them by joining me on patreon you can find links in the corner or down in the description making these videos takes a lot of time out of my workday I do not do it for the money but I do need to get a little financial compensation to make it viable so if you can help me out on patreon super appreciate that and 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