Installing the First Strips on a Cedar Strip Kayak
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The first strip along the sheer are the most important. They define the curvature of all the rest of the strips. Due to the extreme curvature of the sheer on the Petrel, the first strip is tapered to be more flexible and the second strip runs on a more natural curve. This is from a series of videos showing the steps of building a wooden kayak using the "strip-planked" or "strip-built" method. This particular boat is a high performance sea kayak design called the Petrel by Guillemot Kayaks. More information about the boat is available at http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com . Further information about the building techniques shown in these videos is available in the book "Building Strip-Planked Boats": http://building-strip-planked-boats.com/ For more videos in this series please visit: http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/blog
question; the little hand plane you use, what is the angle on the blade, I am getting all my ducks in a row, and don't want to get the wrong one and mess things up
thanks