The making of a table

[RivennHewn]

I did manage to get a nice sunset cruise in the aluminum skiff this evening.

 

[Jayman17]

Riv, I like the beer can chicken sitting on a sandpaper placemat. Nothing like a light snack while perusing GJ. Note: your man card has been upgraded!

Jay

 

[RivennHewn]

Riv, I like the beer can chicken sitting on a sandpaper placemat. Nothing like a light snack while perusing GJ. Note: your man card has been upgraded!

Jay

You don’t have to wash dishes you don’t use.

Wife is outta town, and I got better things to do than spend time cooking for myself.

 

[Modern Garage]

Just another example of how every one of us is just one stern woman's stare away from reverting to cavemen.

BTW, Mrs. Garage's only comment was "That sandpaper had better be used. He'll be sorry if he's trying to finish a project and needs one more sheet."

Joe

 

[RivennHewn]

Just another example of how every one of us is just one stern woman's stare away from reverting to cavemen.

BTW, Mrs. Garage's only comment was "That sandpaper had better be used. He'll be sorry if he's trying to finish a project and needs one more sheet."

Joe

Totally agree.

Be sure to tell the wife that I did an Excel spreadsheet on the cost effectiveness of walking upstairs to find a paper plate VS. the cost of the sheet of new sandpaper prior to engaging the sand paper. Also did a quick calculation on how fast the grease would soak through onto my desktop.

In the end, it was a cost effective and successful employment of resources.

 

[Jayman17]

You might be on to a new type of wood finish, a little wet sanding with a piece of chicken fat saturated sandpaper. Although you might regret this with 2 dogs in the house.

Jay

 

[RivennHewn]

Infusion finishing. Just might be the next trendy fad!

Besides chicken, you could do chorizo, bbq shoulder, or my favorite, cedar plank salmon!

 

[RivennHewn]

My summer has officially started.

 

[RivennHewn]

Hiding my sins.

 

[harley jim]

That looks good Riv, no sin in hiding a little fix. Lol

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[RivennHewn]

That looks good Riv, no sin in hiding a little fix. Lol

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A little more roller stipple than I’d like, but I’m calling it micro abrasion pads.

 

[RivennHewn]

300+ nail holes cleaned out. Took me two evenings.

Some popped out easy, some were more like mining.

Seems there was a number of caulk, sealer, fillers used in an attempt to keep the water out.

I’m thinking I’ll first use a penetrating epoxy, followed by a thickened epoxy filler, and finish with an epoxy fairing compound. Then it all gets primed with epoxy primer prior to paint.

 

[Toolfool]

It's lucky for these boats that they found you.

 

[RivennHewn]

It's lucky for these boats that they found you.

They’re lucky I’m a glutton for punishment.

And that I don’t like TV.

 

[PugetDude]

They’re lucky I’m a glutton for punishment.

And that I don’t like TV.

I haven’t turned my TV on in 2021...
Been working on a huge landscape project.

 

[RivennHewn]

I haven’t turned my TV on in 2021...
Been working on a huge landscape project.

Gonna need a pic or two!

It still amazes me how much “free time” I have since I quit watching TV.

 

[RivennHewn]

I’ve decided to temporarily name the different boats based on where they’re being worked on.

The first wooden boat that my neighbor gave me, is now going by “The Channel Skiff”. As it is being worked on at the Swinomish Channel.

The second boat is being worked on at my old house in Shoreline, so it’s “The Shoreline Skiff”.

Today I’m applying the seam sealer to the caulked and primed joints on the bottom of the channel skiff.

It’s kind funny material to work with. You have to press it in slow, with a lot of pressure. If you try to work it with the putty knife to fast or light, it rolls up and results in an open surface.
With lots of pressure and a slow moving knife, it lays down very smooth.

Makes for some tired fingers.

 

[RivennHewn]

And then on to the “plastic tub”.

I’m a bit disappointed in the paint job.
Or I should say the prep job.

I wanted to retain the original texture of the ‘61 fiberglass.

But everywhere I did a minor repair, or had to sand it, it became flat and smooth.

Now I have a mottled finish with some smooth, some texture.

The only course of action at this point is to sand and use fairing compound to flatten everything.

Going to be a bit of work.

 

[harley jim]

I did a 16 ft speed boat 30 years ago and it was at least 30 years old then. It was a fiberglass hull that looked like wood slats with teak deck and interior. I had to make some repairs to the glass and had the same problem. I used a dremel tool to put the wood grain back into the smooth fiberglass. It took a while to do but looked good after paint.

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[RivennHewn]

Sounds like a pain, but worth the effort.

Any pics?

I missed out on a 12’ mini hydro awhile back.

Guy was giving it away. It came up on CL again the next week with a new paint job and a 2K asking price.

 

[RivennHewn]

Ranger says “sanding is boring. I’m just going to scratch the **** out of it later”

 

[RivennHewn]

And now for something completely different.

How ‘bout a round of What The Hell Are You Going To Do With That?

 

[harley jim]

Looks like a distressing tool.
Or something to plant grass seed.
No pic of the old boat, I said 30 after I thought about it a while it was more like 40 years ago. I got old.

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[RivennHewn]

No more guesses on the raky-chainy thingy?

Someday I might tell y’all.

But today it’s back to little boat ****.

Filling nail hole and pockets of rot, first with penetrating epoxy, then thickened with milled glass fibers.

Stole the little plastic cup that comes with the NyQuil. I never use those anyway.
If it’s a NyQuil night, I chug it

 

[PugetDude]

Seaweed rake?

 

[RivennHewn]

Seaweed rake?

That might actually work really well.

Maybe a dual purpose tool.


The chains are a low-buck way to test a concrete slab for delamination.

We have a 33,000SF slab on my current work project.
The slab “got away” from the finishers in a couple areas.
They hit it to late with the power trowel.

There are some spots where the top layer of “cream” is failing, and just flakes off.
Not an acceptable situation.

We need to locate every spot that has potential to fail.

By dragging the chains across the slab, and listening for change in the tone of the sound, you can locate problem areas. It amazing how different a problem area sounds compared to a slab that is intact.

This is a quick way to cover large areas, followed by a rebound hammer to assess smaller areas, and pin point how much needs to be removed/mitigated.

Here’s a video from NCDOT on the chain test:

We also took some cores, and sent them in for petrograph testing.

 

[Toolfool]

I hate when that happens.
My cousin on Whidbey used to be an engineer for Sellen Construction. He supervised a lot of the high-rise structures downtown. He used to get bent out of shape when the concrete work was f'd up.

 

[RivennHewn]

I hate when that happens.
My cousin on Whidbey used to be an engineer for Sellen Construction. He supervised a lot of the high-rise structures downtown. He used to get bent out of shape when the concrete work was f'd up.

**** happens.

Even to the big boys.

 

[RivennHewn]

36’ of boat.

 

[Strouty]

That picture wasn’t what I was expecting from reading the text……

But I am glad you don’t have a 36’ boat in your yard.

 

[RivennHewn]

That picture wasn’t what I was expecting from reading the text……

But I am glad you don’t have a 36’ boat in your yard.

Me too!

They cost too much, and take too much maintenance.

 

[WoodsTruck]

Is boat cost exponential with linear feet of hull?

 

[RivennHewn]

Is boat cost exponential with linear feet of hull?

Yes. Yes, it is.

 

[RivennHewn]

A clean shop is a rare sight.

Having some carpet replaced, needed to give the guys some room to work.

Had to move the toys outside.

I did manage to get the keel reattached this weekend.

 

[TLCObsession]

36’ of boat.

There are 4 boats in this picture... Your average appears to be based on 3

 

[RivennHewn]

There are 4 boats in this picture... Your average appears to be based on 3

Ya, wasn’t counting the gheenoe.

It’s going up for sale this week

 

[RivennHewn]

Just another Friday night in the shop.

Hoping for a productive weekend.

 

[Toolfool]

I used to get that look when I'd be doing paperwork in my office.

 

[RivennHewn]

I used to get that look when I'd be doing paperwork in my office.

Good looking office manager you got there.

Those two would have been a rough housing pair!

 

[Toolfool]

Good looking office manager you got there.

Those two would have been a rough housing pair!

No doubt.