aggie79 wrote:Larry,
Again, everything looks fantastic!
Could you explain a little more about your technique please? From the poly sheeting and binder clips, I'm assuming that you are edge gluing/epoxying the strips only and not attaching them to your framing at this point in time. Is this correct?
Take care,
Tom
Tom,
The technique is one that I use in building strip-built kayaks. The internal framing you see is temporary, and is NOT part of the wall. The plastic sheet is so the glue won't stick to the perimeter profile or the temporary framing. As you suspected, the strips are edge glued with Titebond 2.
You will notice the staples are not tight to the strips, but stand proud. This is deliberate by using Ceiltile 9/16" staples. The reason is any marks left by the staple would have to be sanded out. The staples hold the strips edges tightly together, but between the staples the binder clips are used as clamps.
The binder clips serve 2 purposes. I have a strip of stick-on sandpaper adhered to each face of the clips so they will not slip on the smooth wood. Each clip is installed at an angle to force hold one strip to the next, and align the edges at the same time. I hope this make sense..
Next the staples are pulled, The surface is scraped to remove excess glue, and level high spots. Then I will fill any cracks or voids with Durhams, and then board sand to level everything before going at it with the Random Orbit sander. I will then glass this side, and flip it over to clean up the other side. I hope to just epoxy on the second side and not glass it as it will be glued to the wall framing and foam, and shouldn't need the glass.
The strip process is standard practice in boat building. This type of stripping on a flat surface with square cut edges is fairly easy to do, but stripping on a boat with the same square cut edge strips is much more difficult because the curves of the boat require the edges to be beveled, and this bevel changes as the strip continues down the length of the boat. This ever changing rolling bevel is done with a block plane to each and every strip. And when it's all stripped the flat surface of each strip creates a facet that must be made smooth and rounded or "fair" the boat builder term.
Sorry for being so long winded, it's probably a lot more info than you were asking for, but it's the easiest way I can explain it. If you want to get much deeper into techniques, and methods of using strips, please PM me with more questions.
Larry C