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Wood Screws for Boat Building and Repair. Make sure that the Wood that you buy and use is sustainably grown and harvested. The lead screw is a omitted as it would tend to lead the auger off in a direction other than dead straight.
Directional control is maintained by jigging outside the bore. If you can't find a ship's auger, grind the lead screw off a regular auger. If it needs to be extra long, weld on an extension. The normal array of boatbuilding tools can be quite extensive.
Since boatbuilders, in addition to hull joinery, also build cabinets, furniture, carve, route, inset, do leather work, canvas work, metal work, rope work, and goodness knows what else, you can hardly have too many tools.
The beginner is limited by his needs and bank balance. Will cover tools by function, and in each category, talk about hand tools, power tools, and stationary tools. Remember you can do all with hand tools it's just tougher and takes longer. The first step you'll take an actual building is to measure and mark. Interesting, in my own inventory of tools, and in the list I compiled for this column, marking and measuring tools represent largest category.
Measuring and marking all the angles and curves on a boat can be an extensive operation, so will spend some time with this. Most obvious and basic are the six-foot folding wood rule and the steel tape. Likewise the level a couple or more sizes , framing square, small steel square try square for square cuts and checking other tools , and combination square.
You may also want to build yourself a large triangle - I'm talking about maybe a six-footer, out of the quarter-inch plywood, with some cutouts to lighten it and make carrying easier. This will come in handy for lofting work. Perhaps the most vital measuring tool is the sliding bevel. You'll use it constantly for taking the angle of a cut or bevel off a lofting full-size drawing of the boat's lines or off a part of the boat to cut a joining part.
Get a good sliding bevel and use it with tenderness. It is forever. You may need a protractor for those cases were angles are given to you in degrees. Depth gauges and contour gauges are mighty handy at times. And, of course, ice picks. Never heard of ice picks in woodworking? I'll name just four that immediately to mind. The ice pick is an excellent scriber. You may have several other scribers, but an ice pick is hard to beat.
It is the perfect depth gauge for nail and screw holes you want to probe to determine the proper length fastener, especially in repair and restoration work.
In the same way, it is a good probe to see if the wood under that paint is solid, or as your view feared, a bit punky. Most important, ice picks are used in a lofting: transferring a set of offset measurements from tabular form to full-size curves on the floor.
We'll get into lofting in detail later. To connect a series of points taken from the table, a long clear strip of wood is laid on the floor and bent through the points to make a fair curve, i. The ice picks hold the batten in place. Some people drive nails or brads - not through the batten, but on either side of it - but I prefer ice picks. They are easily driven in with the palm of your hand or a light mallet, and easily jerked out to move around.
You'll do a lot of that. Get them by the dozens. Batten With Ice Picks. Calipers, compasses several kinds including trammel points for making a beam compass , dividers, and a traditional marking and cutting gauges are all handy at one time or another, just as they are in most woodworking.
One use of a compass a good one with screw setting and bow spring is in spiling. This is a process of transferring a curve from one place to another. It is not the complex or arcane mystery people often think. I'll describe it later when we talk about planking, where it is most often used. Get plenty of pencils, no.
You'll use them all some time or another. Stand them in an empty can near the workbench. For fine joinery cuts, a marking knife is indispensable. Get a good one that is handy to use. In scribing your line with a sharp marking knife, you are making the initial cut into the wood. You are severing the wood fibers smoothly and cleanly at the surface. Subsequent cutting will not disturb the surface of the wood beyond the line and you will obtain considerable accuracy by working just to that perfect line.
Learn, from the beginning, to make measuring and marking devices of your own, for in time these will become your main tools for layout and marking.
I'll discuss just a few; you will invent more as the needs arise. First is a scriber, or what I have rigged up and called a scriber. It is better, to me, than a compass, which is often used for scribing. The point of the scriber follows some contour to which you want to fit another piece.
Drill the hole for the pencil anywhere, or a special distance for some particular project, or drill several holes. The important thing in using such a scribe or compass, or anything like that is that you keep the tool at the same angle to the work piece throughout.
Do not swing it around and tried to keep it normal to the curve. Rather, keep it parallel to the length of the workpiece, or some imaginary line. If you keep changing the angle of the tool relative to the workpiece, you will not get a matching curve. Another scriber which I'll call a Hidden Line Marker is used where the contour to be followed cannot be seen, but is interrupted by the piece you are marking, such as trimming a deck to follow the sheer curve.
These gadgets are easy to make and I usually have one or two lying around me to use. Just glue two tongue depressors, or sucker sticks, to a scrap a pine about an inch thick. Since these fingers are of equal length, one will always be over the other and will mark the same line. Do you see the danger, though, in marking your deck line like this?
If you are hull sides have any flare angle from the vertical you must allow for that flare on your deck edge, so that the actual edge you cut is outboard of the line you mark. Solution: cut well wide of your marked line, then plane at the flare angle, following the hull side, until you you get the deck edge even with the hull side and at the proper angle all along. It changes, of course, from stem to stern.
If you do not do this carefully, you will get a gap between the deck edge and rub rail. Tick sticks masquerade under many names, but they are all pretty much like the illustration. They are necessary for getting a pattern for an odd-shaped piece, such as a bulkhead.
Suppose you have to fit a bulkhead partial bulkhead, cockpit floor, whatever into a space on a boat. Clamp a scrap of stiff cardboard or plywood firmly in place in the same plane as the piece will go. Now place the tick stick flat on it in various positions, each of which puts the point on the periphery of the bulkhead. For curves, use as many points as needed to define the curve. On each placement of the tick stick, trace the little wiggles of the tick stick on to the pattern board, and label them.
When this is done, tape or tack the pattern board to your bulkhead stock, placed the tick stick in the marked positions on the pattern board, one by one, to get duplicate points on the stock. Followed the dots, mark out, and cut with confidence. If you have smooth curves and, use a batten to fair them through the dots. Pattern stock is most important - pieces of cardboard such as pad backs, scraps of cheap wall paneling, thin plywood, door skins, thin hardboard, anything you come by.
I keep a stack of art pad backs, nice stiff cardboard, for patterns. Easy to cut and snip with razor blade and scissors until a pattern fits, then traced that on to your wood. I believe in patterns. This is but a partial list of all the measuring and marking tools available. They are all useful one time or another. You'll find yourself making at many as you go further into boatbuilding. Remember, boatbuilding consists very much of inventing devices, jigs, fixtures, do-dads.
Be creative. That's the fun. After you mark, you saw. A good back saw and dovetail saw , the kind that looks like a small back saw, are needed for fine joinery of small parts.
Learn how to use these saws properly and they'll do wonders for you. A keyhole saw is handy, especially if you do repair or restoration work. Keep a decent hacksaw around for those bolts, etc. If you like the Japanese saws, these work well for courting cutting joints and do some things the other saws won't do.
Two saws are needed in the power hand tool department: a saber saw, which some people seem determined to call a "jig saw", and the standard hand circular saw. You don't need a big one and less you are building a rather big boat. Get a good one. Stationary power tools for sawing are real labor savers in boatbuilding. The main one is the bandsaw.
Old traditional boatbuilders built their shop around the "ship saw", which is a huge bandsaw whose table remains level and the entire blade assembly tilted. A good shop today will have two bandsaws, a 14" model bandsaw with a thin blade for doing curve curve work, and a larger saw with ripping blade for ripping, resawing , and a host of other things.
This almost eliminates the need for a table saw, a lethal beast which has little use in my shop. This is even more true if you have a radial arm saw, another workhorse. If you have a limited budget you can get along fine with a radial arm saw and a 14" saw.
Cabinet scrapers are marvelous tools. If you do much coating with epoxy resin, They are mandatory. The kind that have various curves are handy, but the straight Sandvik type card scrapers are the mainstay.
Learn how to sharpen and use it and it will save you many hours of labor and give you a fine surface. You'll need a number of chisels. The large boatbuilders chisel, called a slick , is used in heavy shaping.
Several really fine paring chisels, kept perfectly sharp, are important. Mortise chisels and butt chisels are often are not often needed. A few general bench chisels for some odd rough work might be handy, as will one or two gouges.
I like to have a small range of cheap chisels for rough work, some better chisels for medium good work, and three or four really fine chisels for fine joinery. Hand Planes , of course. The more, the better. You can hardly have too many. Kept sharp and in good order, they will serve you well on most every job. You should have a jointer, a jack, and a smooth in the regular bench planes. A couple or so block planes , one a low angle job, are needed.
Add a rabbet plane - I liked the 3-in-1 kind and some special wood planes, maybe of your own making. One wood plane that you'll need if you are shaping concave surfaces is the Japanese scooping out plane, a real jewel for hollowing certain places on planks and oar blades. Where a plank of solid wood fits against a tight turn of the boat's bottom in a round bottom boat, the insides of the planks must often be hollowed to fit well. The traditional boatbuilder used a hollowing or backing plane - a wood plane with a curve.
In addition to your marking knives, which are really cutting tools, you should have one or two wood carving knives , a utility knife, and an assortment of odd knives, such as a kitchen paring knife, butcher knife, butter� you'd be surprised how such things can come in handy in the strangest ways. When prying off moldings and small rails or trim pieces on a repair or restoration job, the butter knife and paring knife are just the ticket. Another tool which you may need on board and away from shore is a hand drill , the egg beater type, with an assortment of bits.
A cordless battery type to day replaces this if you want to invest in one. You will not try to build a boat without an electric hand drill. Get one or two main good ones, and a set of regular twist bits. Keep these sharp. As your work dictates, you may want to add some extra-long bits, Forstner bits, and brad point wood bits.
The usual spade bit I find a little rough for most work, though if you keep it sharp, go slow, and use a backing block, it may do well in some cases. For drilling screw holes and countersinking or counterboring for plugs, all in one operation, the taper drill combination set is the best we have present, I'm afraid. Some adjustment has been made for the fact that this bit has a continual taper while screws don't. It require some fiddling to keep the collars in place and it clogs every few holes.
Still it is the best thing I have seen to date and if you are drilling a lot of screw holes, it's a real labor saver. If you counterbore for plugs, you will also need plug cutters , sized to your counter bore diameter. Cut plugs from the waist wood nearest the work are plugging so the color and grain will match best. One gadget you might find useful if you are boring holes which must be at right angles to the surface is the Portable Drill Guide.
It attaches permanently to a drill. Good if you have a spare drill. If your boatbuilding is going to be sizable, consider an electric hand plane, small or large, depending on your workload. Planing is something you do almost constantly in boatbuilding, and if you have to take off very much material in places, this little tool will save you a lot of sweat.
You can get near your final surface with it, then finish off carefully with a bench plane. The wood router is a good tool that has found its way into nearly all sections of woodworking and has become a real benefit to boatbuilding as well. I use three. An all beat up router is screwed under a flat piece of plywood with a laminate top surface. When I have to run a chamfer or quarter-round on very much wood, I haul this out, clamped it between two benches, and use it like a shaper. I haven't "everyday" router on the shelf for all those little jobs best done this way.
Then I have a large router fastened into a scarphing jig. Use scrapers to mow down uneven epoxy without resorting to the sander. Or treat bare wood prior to finishing for improved grain figure beneath epoxy or varnish.
These hardened scrapers are made from the finest European Shinto Saw Rasp Shinto Saw Rasps are manufactured from high quality saw blades with coarse teeth on one side 11 per inch and fine teeth on the other 25 per inch.
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