Preview: Installing Floor Timbers in a Wooden Boat, Part 3 – Fastening with Drift Pins & Screws
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March 18, 2015
Email this Video to a FriendFastening the newly shaped piece of oak with drift pins to the keel, frames and planks is the final step of installing floor timbers in a wooden boat.
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9 Responses So Far to “Installing Floor Timbers in a Wooden Boat, Part 3 – Fastening with Drift Pins & Screws”
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Scott Caple says:
Installed and primed! Waht was used for the priming?
Good work!
Eric Child says:
I feel like at a wooden boat school watching these videos… thank you…!
michael claus says:
i am building a joel white flatfish.am having difficulty finding a source for ballast keel.any suggestions?
Liam Honeychurch says:
What bronze is being used here in order to beat a head on them?
David Hubbard says:
Great explanations of the reasoning behind the methods! Why the choice of drifts vs bolts?
Peter Buxton says:
Drift pins are considered perfectly acceptable for this type of construction, they will hold as good as a bolt. Tho as I’ve said in another response, if there were a ballast keel involved I would opt for the bolts, just because of the twisting stresses that a ballast keel places on the backbone.
David Bishop says:
ENORMOUS job for one man! Journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, very zen! Great videos, humble guy,love it!
Michael Jones says:
Why no bedding of any kind? We would have painted the timber (with red lead when it was available) and then used a bedding compound between the wood to wood surfaces. Maybe it is more important in the south.
Jim Myers says:
very good