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Jacques Mertens
 
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Default Bateau Cheap Canoe....?

James, our plans are deliberately not to scale especially not the PDF ones.
All the dimensions are there, no need to scale anything from the plans.

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Jacques
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"James W. Sloan" wrote in message
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In keeping with the "cheap" theme, I picked up some pseudo-luan (meranti)

at
Home Depot (I know...I know) and got her all cut out. Seems like the

nesting
plan must not be to scale, the seat dimensions are way bigger than the
leftover material on the 2 sheets. Not a problem though...plenty of other
scrap around.

So far, all is well. I did the cutting with a jigsaw that I'd never used
before so, the first cut or two had some extra wave. Thanks goodness for
fillets & tape!!

James


Well...enough chat I suppose. I'll be off to the lumber store first

thing
in
the morning to get started! Thanks everyone for the insights and advice.
I'll post as the thing progresses......Hey Jaques, tell me in advance

what
the first mistake I'll be making is. I can then move on to the second

one
without delay!!!

James