Preview: Building a Stitch and Glue Boat, Part 2 – Getting Supplies
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January 26, 2012
Email this Video to a FriendAs he builds the Fox Double Paddle Canoe, Bill Thomas unpacks a box of goodies and helps us understand why a dozen might be better than three. We rediscovered this “unboxing” recently and think it’s a trove of good advice that should be included in our How to Build a Stitch and Glue Boat series.
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Robert Kunzig says:
Bill, it is delightful watching / learning through this series. You have a great way of being light with the task yet thorough with it being a joy to imagine doing this during the watch. Thanks for putting it together for us!
Robert Ford says:
As a novice to boat building, I was really hoping to get a catalog from Jamestown Distributing. However, according to their website, they quit printing them a few years ago. If anyone has an old one lying around, I would gladly buy it. It really helps to be able to browse through a printed catalog so as to familiarize yourself with the tools, supplies, and methods used in boat building.
Thomas Dalzell says:
I have had surprising success using the sandwich gloves from the dollar store, one on the weak side two on the strong side. Often I can’t find large gloves that fit loosely enough to be removable. In Canada there is nobody who delivers anything interesting inside weeks at a decent price. I get the weird stuff to the border, but can get frames, rollers and gloves at the dollar store. Getting foam rollers is more expensive, and they are not necessary for thinner epoxies like Raka and system three classic. These work like fiberglass resin enough to use woolly 3/8 covers, as I learned from Jim Brown. But with my favorite epoxy like WEST, I need the foam roller, or squeegees.
Look up Gougeon soap on the net for hand cleaner, or use a dob of butter or soft lard followed up with enough dish soap or liquid soap to clean off the fat. That is the safe way to remove epoxy from skin, though it shouldn’t be there in the first place.