Scarfing Chinelogs

After cutting the boards on the table saw I cleaned up the cuts with the no 4 and glued them together again. I did both at the same time. Hopefully I managed to avoided gluing them together by placing some plastic tape between. 

And we have a mast!

One coat of epoxy on

Almost there

A bit of smoothing and rounding and we have a mast

Mast glued up

The mast is now together. A bit of planing and then it too is ready for epoxy coating, as well as some fibreglass in the bottom end. Speaking of planing, I sharpened my no.4 yesterday evening making it a bit convex rather than using a secondary bevel and I got it really right! It cuts soo nice! The wood is soo smooth I doubt I can come close using sandpaper. 

The blade. 

The mast. Gunwales and inwales to the far left, and the wood for the chinelogs in the middle. 3D is approaching!

Will it fit?

I think so. 

A bit room to spare for fibreglass and epoxy. 

Glue!

Is it straight? I hope it's straight..

Mast continued

A bit of planing today (one of my favourite activities), and now the mast is ready for glue.