The last post was about forming the patch at the top of the arch. I got stymied when I couldn’t lever it into position. Well, I cut the piece out and made this work.
As you can see, I’m trying to protect our living environment. The plastic sheeting makes the cleanup easier, but it also keeps us from having the sanding dust sift into our sheets, where we won’t see it. I’m not even sure if we feel it, really. Directly, I mean. It’s just, well, creepy.
The patch in the picture above isn’t fitting quite right, and the arch isn’t cut into it. In order to shape it, I pulled out the following tools.
You can’t see the chisel, but it was in the mix somewhere. I didn’t get pictures of the process, because working, right? But basically, I fucked it into place and slipped the other piece under it. Voila!
By the way, we were given this wood by a man named August. He had a bunch of marine plywood left over from a project and gave it to James.
It’s rough, but the next step is structural filler, epoxy, and fiberglass. Once those are all applied, we’ll be ready to do some finish work.
As usual, clean-up was a long process. It involved more sawdust than fiberglass this time (yay!), which reminded me of one reason wooden boats are wonderful.
…We live here!