LOOPS AND FENDER

NOW HERE'S A BIGGER AND SLIGHTLY BETTER FENDER
AND THE FIRST LOOP, NOT AS NICE AS I HAD HOPED MAY NEED MORE THINKING AND PRACTICE,PLUS ONLY HAD ENOUGH ROPE FOR THREE LOOPS ,OOPS!!AND HERE IS WHAT THE LOOP'S ARE FOR TO LIFT THE BOAT AND THEY FINISH IT OFF NICER.

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AND HERE ARE SOME I MADE EARLIER, WITH SOME OF THE TOLLS OF THE TRADE, THE SPIKE LOOKING THINGS AT THE TOP ARE CALLED FIDS, THE TAPE IS TRANSPORE OR USE SCOTCH TAPE, AND NEXT TO THE BLACK SCISSORS ARE

HI ME HARTIES SPLICE THE MAIN SAIL OR MAKING SOME ROPE WORK ,FIRST A FENDER NO I HAVE NOT COMMITED ANY OTHER CRIME!!CUT ROPE TO SIZE THIS TURNED OUT TO BE TO SMALL BUT AS A FIRST ATTEMPT KEPT NOTE OF SIZE, SO ONWARDS AND UP WARDS.
START AT THE BOTTOM, 8 STRANDS USE EVERY OTHER 4 AND CROWN[ WILL POST SOME HELPFULL SITES ON A LINK] THEN CORWN OVER 2 .
USING 2 BENT OVER STRANDS MAKING ALOOP AT THE TOP,FOUR DROP DOWN FROM HALF WAY MAKING A TOTAL OF 8 HANGING DOWN,THEN ADD 4 PIECES FROM MID WAY TO THE BOTTOM BUT NOT HANGING DOWN.
YOU CAN SEE THE LAST OF THE 4 MIDDLE ONES COVERED IN TAPE
NEARLY THERE AT THE TOP CROWN DOWN THE LAST ROW THEN FOLD UP TOWARDS THE LOOPS,THEN THERE ARE TUCKED DOWN AND OUT THROUGH AND CUT OFF NEATLY.

SO FISRT CUT THE SHAPE AND POKE THE HOLES 1/4" APART AND 1/4" IN FROM THE EDGETHEN START TO STICH THE COLLOR ON THEN PUSH THE LEATHER ONTO THR OAR AND STICH THE LONG PIECE.SLACK.
GENTLY PULL TIGHT SEVERAL TIMES TILL FINISHED RESULT!.

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THIS IS THE NAME , I DID IT BY HAND !SHOULD MAYBE HAVE USED A TEMPLATE AND ROUTER.? I GOT THE NAME BY USING THE INITIALS OF THE FAMILYS NAME AND WELL EVER THING STARTS WITH WWW.

GETTTING THERE

THE NAMES ON











THE FALSE FLOORS IN



AND THE SEAT ON AND HELD IN WITH IT'S PEGS

HANDELING THE FISH WITH KID GLOVES, THE FISH CAME ABOUT AS AN ACCIDENT, THE WOOD WAS LEFT OVER FROM THE HANDLES OFF THE OARS, THAT I HAD GLUED TOGHETHER ONE QUIET DAY AND FOUND THEY LOOKED LIKE FISH AND IT WASN'T TILL I WAS LOOKING FOR A SMALL STOPPER THAT I THOUGHT OF USING THEM.
















THE NAME WAS PRACTICED ON PAPER BEFORE SCRAPPING ON THE WOOD THEN PENCILLED IN THEN VARNISHED.











THE NAME GLUED ON
THE FINISHING IS STARTED, FIRST THE BOAT IS SANDED THEN SEALED WITH OIL BEFORE SANDING IN BETWEEN THE 5 COATS WITH THE SAND PAPER GETTING FINER AS WE GO

OAR BLOCKS AND FISH?

AT FIRST I HAD PLASTIC OAR LOCKS FOR THE BOAT BUT THE WIFE SAID RIGHTLY THAT PLASTIC DID NOT SUIT A WOODEN BOAT SO ON EBAY BOUGHT A PAIR OF BRONZE OAR LOCKS,BUT BY THAT TIME I ALREADY HAD CUT A "V SHAPE" IN THE GUNNELS TO ACCEPT THE PLASTIC LOCKS, SO I HAD TO REPEAT THE SHAPE FOR THE WOODEN BLOCKS.









THE GOOD THING IS THEY GIVE THE BLOCKS LOTS OF SUPPORT.









LOOKING GOOD I THINK
















AND THE FISH HOLDS THE OAR LOCK IN PLACE IF IT TRIES TO JUMP SHIP.

SHAPING THE OARS

FIRST MARK WHERE THE WOOD HAS TO BE REMOVED,




THEN START TO SHAPE WITH PLANE










BEGIN TO SAND SAND SAND,















BUT WAIT WHAT ARE THEY FOR? TWO BLOCKS AND TWO WOODEN FISH!!

OARS

FIRST CUT LONG STRAIGHT GRAINED LIGHT WEIGHT WOOD,












CUT SHAP TO SUIT BIG HANDS













TAPER FRONT PART WE WILL CALL THE PADDLE




THEN APPLIE GLUE LET SOAK IN FOR 5 MINUTES THEN APPLIE MORE GLUE AND CLAMP LIGHTLY OR THE GLUE WILL SQUEEZE OUT