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I know you don’t like the perimeter rails, but it would really make your job a lot easier.
No you got it all wrong
my bro and I are 100% Prail after the fact converted
just like how Benny describes below
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When you go to make boards, bag the bottom skin first on a blank that’s still a rectangle. After that, you template-cut it, shape the deck side (dome, rail bands, etc.) and bag on the other skin. Then flip it back to the bottom & use a flush-edge cutting router bit to give it a good square edge all around. At that point, it’ll only take one or two pieces of the wood of your choice to make rails thick enough to shape again.
The debate is what to make the rails out of.
Bert says balsa
Gary Young says corecell
Someone else says pawlonia, bass or cedar
so far I’ve done them in pure balsa, balsa combined with cork, corecel, and blue dow but resawn cedar and or redwood is next… so it’s not that part I have a problem with
but more how to make a skin I can roll up and stash on the side till needed
or store between some sheets of ply on a rack till needed
just like your glass roll or your stacked blanks or resin containers
skins should be the same way.
It seems the answer may be to build a DanB skin with just one more layer
so instead of glass>resin>balsa>resin>glass in bag on a table covered with mylar or perf release and a blotter,
it’ll be glass>resin>1/32" balsa>glue/contact cement>1/42" veneer>resin>glass in a bag covered by the same stuff.
Then you’d still have a sandwich to apply over foam albeit the skin characteristics may have been altered by the characteristics of the additional wood layer and it’s grain pattern could be good could be bad. which leads to another diversive thought…
But if you built it just right…
I mean a complete compsand glassed and all…
couldn’t you just bag the veneer over the finished board with some PU glue or waterproof contact cement
and create a glass-less wood exterior (like Chris Garrett’s woodies) you could seal and buff out like another other fine piece of wood furniture? You’d just have to plan out the rail seem a tiny bit so the rail seem would blend in with the 1/42" overlay.
Kind like how Ancell glues on those shell lams on to a finished yater. kind of like a fake olo or alaia
Aromatic Cedar or Camphor would make a nice exterior shell and keep the bugs out of the EPS storage area.
I’m getting psyched…
Cause I realized I already did this on my Jim Turnbull 10 footer with Madrone…
but stupidly I glassed the outside to seal it and gave it Mcdonalds supersize-me weight…