I have some more brightwork to do, so today’s first task was to put another coat of varnish on the name board. No photos of that it’s not that interesting.
One of the bigger small tasks was to get on with the Maldon name board. Here is the board, glued, planed, surfaced, carved and cut out. Not a big task but oh so satisfying.
The next task is the aft deck. I had to cut this back to a regular shape so that I can grave in a new piece of plywood. This is the router template for the cut conveniently held down by braces to the horse.
The result was pretty good, but did not quite cut through the deck leaving what is known in CNC Router circles as an onion skin behind. This was easily removed with sandpaper and a chisel where required.
The piece used to guide the router will be used when the time comes to glue the graving piece in place like this. With suitable plastic protection so that it doesn’t get glued to the deck !
I cut two plywood laminates that are fractionally too big for the gap, glued them together and weighted them down on the deck with lead weights so that the resultant plywood is bent into almost the correct shape before glueing it to the deck.
There were various other small tasks carried out but nothing really worthy of photographing or describing.
Time for a cup of tea.