Prior to the boat ending up in the garage I was making use of the space with the building of a new seat this is being built to a design by Steve Clark and is coming on a dream.
All of the seat came cut out and ready to be put together with a little clean up of the sections which had been left in place so as to assist transit the whole thing had been cut out on a CNC
mill this along with CNC Laser cutting is being used more and more in the building of both IC's and DC canoes.
This lends to the design being developed on a CAD program and then the ability to use the same drawings to cut out from using the CNC machinery cutting down on the amount of waste material and being able to replicate exact copies time and time again. pictures show the construction through to the point of the bottom being fitted and is now awaiting the addition of the Carbon tape on the seams at this point also with out the bullnosing having been fitted there is an all up weight of just over 5kg.
All of the seat came cut out and ready to be put together with a little clean up of the sections which had been left in place so as to assist transit the whole thing had been cut out on a CNC
mill this along with CNC Laser cutting is being used more and more in the building of both IC's and DC canoes.
This lends to the design being developed on a CAD program and then the ability to use the same drawings to cut out from using the CNC machinery cutting down on the amount of waste material and being able to replicate exact copies time and time again. pictures show the construction through to the point of the bottom being fitted and is now awaiting the addition of the Carbon tape on the seams at this point also with out the bullnosing having been fitted there is an all up weight of just over 5kg.
looking back on the building of the seat it might have been wiser to have created a former by taking the shape of the length wise stringers from the space frame using these as a template create thicker ones that would also stand-up and then cover this with ply.
this could be used to hold down the top of the seat whilst making it easier to construct and fix in place the space frame putting hole through the stringers you could also push dowels through to tie off to when clamping down........ just a thought
this could be used to hold down the top of the seat whilst making it easier to construct and fix in place the space frame putting hole through the stringers you could also push dowels through to tie off to when clamping down........ just a thought
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