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Thanks Ed, I will give them a try
Ed Askew wrote: Steve, Sounds like an interesting project, but maybe you're asking the wrong group. You might consider posting the question on a Native American or Hawaiian cultural group. I understand that the aboriginal peoples burned the logs, and controlled the burning by adding mud packs to protect the parts of the log that they didn't want to eliminate by burning. Ed. steveJ wrote in message ... I wondered about the shape of the ends too. Pictures I've seen show two basic types. pointy or blunt. Certainly the blunt ended is less labor but with chain saws its neglegible. I'm thinking that the pointy ended is a more highly developed hull shape and that the blunt one is more primitive but also may be a way to deal with inevitable checking of the wood from the end. From what Ive seen, the blunt end boats were carved from the inside first, burned out actually. These hulls are basically log shaped so the carving of the outside would be pretty straight foward. With a pointed end boat, I would have a hard time shaping and visualizing the negative space of the hull if starting from the inside. I think I can visualize and carve the outer shape preety much by eye though. I'm mostly worried about controlling checking and figuring out the final shape when its done. Since this hull will be sprung out from the inside I'm wondering how much it will spring and how thick I'd need to make the wood to resist splitting it. Will speading the gunnals apart result in hogging the bottom? I was also wondering if the charring used to remove wood also adds to rot resistence or if it was simply the only way to remove the wood before steel was available. Backyard Renegade wrote: steveJ wrote in message ... snip and broad hatchet, sharpen both ends of the log so that,in plan,the sheer is shaped the way I want it except a little skinnier in the middle because the log is only about 24 inches across. Then shape the profile view using chain saw and adze. Then shape the rest of the outside of the hull using a large shallow gouge or sculptors adze. snip When the hull is near the final thickness, drill holes through the hull and insert dowels to the depth I want the hull thickness to be so that when I get down to them, I can see where I am and fine tune the thickness with shallow gouges. snip The only thing that strikes me here is I keep saying to myself, he should carve the inside first. I think the outside will be easier to shape, and control the shaping tools, then if you make a mistake on the inside, or find a major flaw, you have material to work with to shape the outside a little different if necessary. As to the shape of the thing, I would try to get as much out of it as possible. I have seen pictures where they are more or less rounded for and aft as opposed to pointy ends, this makes shaping easier too. Scotty |
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