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.

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Comment by John Greenleaf on April 4, 2010 at 8:13pm
Dave, yes DE w/ transom using Khaya Mahogany for frames and such and some Honduran for the chine and sheer rails.

I will keep the brace and bit thing in mind- I have a few of those laying around as well. I can see where some precision work could really come in handy. I'm sure being a little too heavy pulling the screw gun trigger has caused more than one mishap.

Regarding the transom - I thought about that but was not sure... especially since I may mount a small kicker on the back from time to time, I didn't want to deviate too much - though that probably wouldn't make much of a difference.
Comment by Dave Z on April 4, 2010 at 7:15pm
John,

Are you building a 16' DE with transom?

Don't scoff at the old school tools! If you have a brace and bit, you will find it very useful when driving the screws for the outer handrails and chines.

As for your transom without notches. No sweat. You could have left them and laid your chines flush. My first double ender was built that way. The notches allow you to actually cut the chines a little short so you can lay them in easier. The slight gap is then hidden by the transom frames.

What kind of wood are you using for those frames? Looks like mahogany.

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