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Cases for the pentomino sets I made last year.  The sets are far more playable now; you can work the puzzle in your lap and the open tray holds the loose pieces.  To purchase go to my etsy store

These shavings from the planer kept clogging the intake to the dust collector. After clearing the intake and shaking out the hose about twenty times, I needed something better.

This worked. All the edges are taped up, and the box held the pressure. It filled up; I emptied it and taped it again, and it filled up again, just when I was finished planing.

The “Mike Fink” about to launch. A featherweight canoe designed by Mac Mcarthy based on Rushton’s “Wee Lassie.” 29 pounds empty.

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Ten sets of Squaredance, 6 sets of Pentominoes. for a Crafts Fair December 4.

Looking south.

Looking North.

The room is 15 feet wide at the South end, 12 feet at the North End, and 21 feet long.  There is a Bandsaw, Radial Arm Saw, Unisaw, two Drill Presses, a Dust Collector, Drum Sander, Planer, Jointer and a bunch of boxes full of stuff.  With the canoe off the floor, there is room to walk around and work.  Also a chest freezer and a dryer intended for tumbling and not used.

My father, Meyer Fink, saved redwood scraps  for many years intending to use them for projects.  After he passed away, my sister arranged for the basement to get cleared out.  The main room was emptied of lumber, but the redwood was tucked away under a bench.  I took this home and used the redwood in my canoe.  My cousin used to call my dad Uncle Mike, and he was Mike to his friends, so I named the boat Mike Fink.  There was a keelboat captain in the early 19th century with the same name, no relation.

Six layers of 1/16″ cherry one inch wide were laminated to the ends.  When dry, they were shaped with a belt sander, and came out pretty good.

August 28, 2010.  75 strips, including 3 stealers.  Surrounded by power tools to protect from cement work being done in the shop.

Beveled the bow and stern stems on a stationary belt sander.  Nailed on the sheer strips with a nail gun.  Yellow pine tags tended to split; need to cut plywood tags for spreading the force of the nail and keeping the head above the strip.  After mounting both sheers I was unsatisfied with the stern; the strips were not resting on mold 7.  I undid the stern assembly and cut off two inches after determining the intersection of the sheers.  Reassembled, reglued the sheers to the stern stem and all is fair.

The cleats at bow and stern are redone to facilitate removing the molds once the hull is complete.  Now I can get a screwdriver in between the molds and remove two screws for each mold with the driver held horizontally.  This turned out to be handy when I redid the stern.  The whole process took fifteen minutes.

8/1

Twelve strips.

8/5

Twenty strips.

8/9/10

Thirty.

8/16/10

Forty-three

August 23, 2010

63

August 26, 2010  67 strips.

 July 21

Five 1/16 inch strips of yellow pine laminated.  I intend to glue on three more to get a full 1/2 inch.
Two more strips were all that were needed to bring the thickness to the level of the adjacent mold.