What... you mean the tools depicted in "drift boats and river dories" are just an artists conception ?!?

Alright (har har), just kidding my other dill is a Bosch - When digging around for my block planes I came across the old egg beater and couldn't resist (nearly burst a blood vessle faking the look of exertion)... I'm slow enough as it is, I couldn't imagine the time (and strength) it would take to do his all by hand - I'd probably be laying on the floor instead of looking exerted.

In all seriousness, things are moving along at a brisk pace at least for the time being. The wood has arrived and I have been building frames like mad. To date (over the past few days) I have constructed all the frames and the transom. So far so good - I'm happy with the way they came out; I really started to churn these things out once I was confident I wasn't going to mess the mitres up.

One mistake I did actually make was to glue the transom frame to the 3/4" plywood before cutting out the chine notches. Got a little too excited to see things come together. I'm sure it's been done before; but, what a pain to fix that problem.

I used a Dremel mini-max, and it worked suprisingly well for the ugliness of the situation - that thing is one heck of a tool. It really gets in and cuts in some tight spots with pretty excellent percision. I basically set up a template on the transom to guide my cutting at the correct angles. Let me tell you - that wood was smoking!

All in all it worked out and looks nice - just wasted a bunch of time.. If anybody has done the same bonehead move and come up with a good/better solution, I'd love to hear it.