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Metamorphosis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVx0MHN1HCg

Well, she ain't naked anymore...beautiful!

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Bill

I told my wife we needed a three-car garage for my projects...she told me to ask her for permission next time before I buy a house.
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Beautiful Steve!

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Glen-L Marine
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Here's our trailer.
A 1960's era inboard "Lil Dude" my son Tim got for $400 on Ebay and then rebuilt it. He did a great job.
Lot's of bunk surface to preserve our trailer queen over the years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHr2TKIXYOs

Here's a look at or polished up and fitted brass rudder and drop strut;

http://www.youtube.com/user/ThePatmonts ... wsrr9svH5s

The hull is finished and she's on the trailer!
The experimental "reverse negative" finishing process (one fill/finish coat, no varnish) came out way better than I had ever dreamed possible;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw6RTOXnjjo

Looking very nice Steve. You've made great progress on the build.
Doug

Thanks so much Doug,
Between my son the perfectionist, and me the inventive productionist, we have a team well suited for this amazing, fun and beautiful project that is certain we'll both be very proud of the rest of our days.

Now for the expensive faze. I'm pretty sure that will slow us down quite a bit right now.

I would cut and glue parts rather then trying to bond two sheets together.
joe r

Hi joe r, welcome.

Assuming your comment concerns the original title of this thread, we were able to easily find single sheets of relatively low cost yet extremely high quality marine grade "Latvian Birch" plywood. It was never necessary to bond or laminate two sheets together to get the desired thickness.
We also would probably have cut and glued the frame parts together if we hadn't coincidentally had a CNC router at our disposal.
We'll call this "count (and take advantage of) your blessings".

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

yep you got it glad you found the wood. i like the cnc router part. Hope you have a good thanksgiving.

I can post videos to youtube, but still don't know how to simply attach photos to this site.

Anyway, if you can go to my open facebook page, I posted the latest shot of the inner hull of our barrel back build just after we "epoxy encapsulated".
It was dark out, but you can see the one piece plywood frames with what we think have elegant (and quite strong) seamless shapes.

Here's the public link;

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... f6200c639f

Here's a better daylight view from the top front of our plywood framed runabout in progress;

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... 8ec017ab19

looks GREAT Steve
linked your image to see if it worked
...right click on the image in facebook and select copy image location then use the Img tag on our forum reply screen and paste...
-Billy

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Cool
Thanks Billy!