The bimini hardtop progresses and the heads finally get a door! A week of boatbuilding in one video, along with look at wooden planes and how to adjust them.



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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is esvitapacha and

we're building this

cruising salvo and this is basically the

video log of the build

um trying to show what it's like to

undertake a you know significant project

such as this basically speaking on your

own

um so we're recording

the whole process of the build

and this week i want to go straight into

the to the work and have a look at uh

you can try and show you know a week of

the build as basically we ever do really

but um

try and show you what's going on this

week so let's go and have a look and as

you probably know we're working on this

bimini hard top

um one of the first things i did this

week was to

prepare these hand rails a couple of

beautiful hardwood handrails which

apparently came off an old

bc british columbia river boat

they're really quite old i think um but

i love them i've had them for quite a

while in my position

and uh i wanted to get them on onto

patio somewhere and

yeah the goal here is to fit them onto

this birmini hardtop

so cut them to length how to adjust the

length of them

and strip them

and i'm in the process of varnishing

them

they can look good there

my

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one of the things about a project like

this is is that you

do bits here and there and over the

place all over the place but of course

you've got to try and keep

track on what's going on so don't start

too many jobs but on the other hand you

need a couple of going on perhaps some

some glues drying somewhere on one part

of the job so you can start something

else paints drying whatever

and that's been very much the case this

week

a bit of waiting for glue to dry waiting

for paint to dry

and so

in the workshop here i've been working

on a couple of doors for the heads

uh this one you saw me mate didn't yes

i've been painting that

but also the heads needed the main door

the entrance door so i cut that out of a

piece of cross laminated timber on these

three three layer boards with d3 gluing

on it

um which i thought would stay stable

be ideal for a door cut that out and uh

got a bit of undercoat on one side to

try and seal it as soon as possible and

then while that was drying came back in

here to work on the bimny hardtop

i think last week you saw it i got one

coat of epoxy sealer primer on the

underside

that's the case of cleaning that up

giving it a sand up

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um there were one or two bits on the

routing of the beams that i wasn't

entirely happy with

so i've got a block playing out and

chisel

shaped that up a bit and then carried on

with further coats of epoxy primer

sealer on that so we've got four coats

now of epoxy primer sealer on the

underside

of the bimini hardtop

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a little bit cluttered at the bench here

but

um i thought i'd say a couple of quick

words about these i've got two of these

wooden planes which are

a bit less commonly used nowadays but

they are actually very good and you saw

me there using this one

uh to clean up the beams on that on the

underside of that hardtop and this if i

just show you that up the camera

is a rebate a rabbit plane

and it's rather marvelous because

because if i just

give it a whack

you'll see the blade comes out as it's

the nature of a rebate plane

the blade comes out all the way to the

edges so you can plane right into the

corner of something with a plane like

this

and this was very cheap i've got this

from the local you know do it yourself

supermarket your bnq or your home depot

or whatever

it was mex bar here

got it from there didn't cost very much

the iron is not too bad

takes a good edge

as you may remember

i've got one of these

i've got one of these diamond sharpening

stones

and on that

coupled with coupled with the uh the

sharpening honing guide

on that you get a very good edge on this

plane

so the steel's not bad at all so it

really wasn't very expensive

um

the tricky thing about these well it's

not tricky the thing that but perhaps is

is less and less known is how to adjust

them

um because it's a very very simple beast

you've simply got

simply got this wedge here

that wedges the metal blade the steel

blade in place

into this wooden block and it's the same

with this type of plane here same system

entirely

so you've got a couple of ways of

adjusting these

the easy way of course is just to

literally hit the blade down um

gives you a deeper cut of course or you

can angle it by hitting it

side to side

perhaps depending on what you're doing

perhaps you don't want the blade

parallel with the base so you can angle

it accordingly um

if you want to

make the blade deeper just a fine amount

you hit it at the front

and that you probably need to tap the

wedge again afterwards but that slides

the blade down by a fine amount deeper

and if you want to bring the blade up

you hit it at the back

and then the blade gets

comes up they're adjusted entirely by

hitting the things which is which is

rather wonderful

there we go

and now the blades come free

i like to keep the blade out of the way

otherwise it's sharp enough that you can

cut your finger if you jab your finger

into it so

there we go

what's that

this block plane

when you look at it same system and

actually has a metal stud in the back

for hitting to

to

raise the blade

same system and they're great they cut

really well and when you've practiced a

little bit with adjusting them

um they adjust really finely

great planes

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hmm

that worked very well

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so having turned that rather

plain

simple ugly bit of clt wood into uh

into a beautiful panel door

it's time to come back in here and get

back to the bimini dock

these battens that i put on last week

the

mountains for the uh solar panels

i wanted to glass those over so i just

sort of rounded off the ends

cut a bit of an angle on the ends

rounded them off

glass them over and then

um because i'd used a very coarse cloth

on here i wanted to fill the weave a bit

more spread a bit of party over it bit

of epoxy pumpkin over it

sanded that of course to get it at least

reasonably flat

and ready for some paint

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uh

so that's four coats of epoxy primer

sealer on the top as well and now it's

finally ready for some gloss will be two

coats of glass either side

and then it'll be ready to put on

meanwhile i'm just making a couple of

adjustments to the after the bimini

frames it needs a couple of brackets on

it so i'm

planning that so the brackets there will

integrate that after bimini frame into

the railings of the boat

so planning that ordering some stainless

for that

that will be coming soon and uh we

should be fitting this hard top

it's been a long time isn't it should be

fitting it next week

all being well

and then we could get inside the boat

and hang

doors in the heads

uh

right

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and there it is

put catches on

come on well please with that

i'm just in the process of varnishing

around these door shuts

so you may assume me earlier i put this

rebate down the edge of the door i've

got a batten down here around the door

shut that it shuts against

also a little threshold

down there door swirl

thing so that shuts nicely

same catch on the inside so it can be

shut from the inside

all right guys is it for this week

thanks for watching

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um we'll be back see you next time bye

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