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| bartenderdave | profile | all galleries >> Surf Scoter: A Cuddy Cabin Bartender >> 20-4 Bartender Part III >> Sheer Guard and Toe Rail | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Sheerguard time. Better done before painting. My bad. |
 Blue tape marks hidden screw; 2 x 4 holds piece for bending and fitting. |
 Another prop during dry fit; Starboard, stern piece. |
 Final dry fit, same piece. |
 Clamp on wall holds end of aft port sheer guard for correct angle, first screw in. |
 Squeezeout, center piece, port side; making fillets a bear, adjacent to paint. |
 On to the toe rails; first, nose pieces are dry fitted. Mahogany will be finished bright. |
 Quarter inch chisel used to scrape away a landing for fillet. |
 Surface scraped of paint and sanded. |
 Glueup stage. Masked to keep epoxy over run off the paint. |
 Detail of fillet; eventually this will be sanded to the paint under the epoxy for a smooth transition to existing paint. |
 Masking removed. Rails will go outside this piece and about 10 feet down each sheer. |
 Dry fit of aft portion port rail: lamination phase. |
 Glueup of lamination. Tons o' clamps! |
 Dry fit of laminated piece prior to gluedown. |
 Port rail after gluedown. Screws hold rail in place |
 Aft end of glued down rail. |
 Joint to forward pieces, prior to cleanup. |
 After fitting and glueup to forward pieces, in combined lamination and glueup operation. |
 Final gluedown of forward port rail. |
 Without the clamps. |
 Reglued, patched joint, after lamination glueup; patch will be removed in sanding. |
 Pull saw and a dremel cutoff wheel prepare the bow for joining the two rails. |
 After a little chisel work, it's ready for a test fit of the starboard piece. I'm ready for that! |
 Starboard rail all glued in place. On to sanding and shaping. |
 Sanded and ready for resin. |
 Couple coats of Silvertip resin on, waiting for it to firm up enough to sand. |
 Closeup of bow light and bow chock. Sheer guard will get white paint; toe rail, bright. |
 Toerail masked for finishing. |
 First coat of clear satin LPU on the toerail. Matte finish area inside will have nonskid on it. |
 Plastic lids used as spacers to set the inner mask line for the nonskid on foredeck. |
 Masked line. |
 Second coat of LPU, prior to adding nonskid. |
 Polycarbonate grit applied, port side, with masking. |
 Detail of polycarbonate grit; particles are about half a millimeter across and very angular. |
 Overall view of completed nonskid; grit was lightly sanded before last coat of LPU to take off some of the bite. |
 Hull masking: blue is last color cut in to finish sheer guard and toerail. |
 Masking removed after last coat. No more painting! |
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