Working on a GG style board, got an orange (@Barry Thankz , made up my febble mind) blank, cut it up and added some patriotic colors, cleaned the blank up and laid out my dimensions and quickly realized I was outta luck with my template stash.
Huck is a mystro at this as well as others who have contributed to this part of making boards and I have reviewed many a “how to” make a template tread. Hey, I’m not the sharpest pencil in the drawer. My thought was, it is too simple to involve for a lot of work, yeah lazy too.
Started out with battens, got the the curves outlined. Cut out ½ the blank and trued up that side. Next I squared up some ram board, laid it up and scribed it from below. Cut it close and laid it up again and trued the ram board to my foam outline.
If she works guess what, mostly I do one offs and in the olde days had no choice. Now a day’s Masonite doesn’t make sense, IMO using ram board is great for either “lifting” or doing something outside the box.
Really no. I don’t have one and IMO would only make a simple job complex.
It’s my cowboy past “ya use what ya got”, simple a hand saw, yeah, yeah I do use a Skilsaw for my outlines (maybe a beam saw would cut deep enough for this) I have enough confidence in my hand saw.
Having done 3 straight glue line boards and being up against an “industry problem” (little guys don’t get things like composite stringer jobs) and I’ve done enough with parabolics!
I’ll explain this particular board is my progression in seeking flex and rebound in the tail and using what I can get. And having just being shot down on my factory stringers, had a beer, thru a stock blank down and just had a little brainstorm session, this is a combination of several ideas and a real challenge / obsession to me (ordered “Apple core” blank for next one).
This is the result, laid out the outline plotted my glue lines. Now here is my error, notice the blue side curve, I used the hand saw on the straight and switched to a hand held jig saw. Bust! On the other (red) side I used the hand saw all the way, much better. Fixed my screw up with trusty 60 grit block.
Maybe soon I’ll acquire a band saw as it will be required if I dare to copy some of Master Snyder’s stuff!
I’ll let MattWho answer this, but in my mind a jigsaw would be the unlikely candidate. Jigsaw likes a hard flat surface, and thin material. Blade distorts during curves cut in thicker material. And jigsaw hard to hold a steady flowing curve, wants to cut either side of line, constantly correcting, good for smaller radius cuts, and ok if you can clean up with sandpaper afterwards, like on most applications with wood.
I’m glad to know this can be done with handsaw, I have a project in mind that I have been putting off thinking I needed a bandsaw.
Barry - those are awesome - bet you blew some minds at the expo with those curved stringers! I notice you also have a wood stringer. Would the board perform adequately without it, seeing as you have all those glue line stringers?
