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Friday, June 13, 2008 I began by sanding the toerail blanks with 120 and 220 grit paper to blend in the various profiles and smooth the surfaces. Afterwards, I cleaned the blanks with acetone to remove the sticky, dense teak dust. |
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Next, I worked on the scarf joints to conjoin two pieces of the stock for each side's toerail. I double-checked the lengths of the pieces versus the overall length I needed (plus extra) to ensure that I had enough material for long-ish scarf joints, and then worked with my fir toerail mockup piece to figure out how to cut the scarf joints effectively. During some trial and error, I found that I was having difficulty getting an acceptable fit between two pieces given the strongly rounded external profile of the stock, by hand cut or with a jig I set up on the miter saw. Eventually, I managed to make the cuts required with the miter saw, though in the end the length of the scarf ended up a bit shorter than I'd wanted, though sufficient (I hoped) for the application. With the cuts finally made, I cleaned the joints and epoxied and clamped them together, using some UHMW scraps along the sides of the blanks to hold things in alignment during clamping, while not sticking to the epoxy. |
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It seemed to be everyone's day to phone me, and between numerous calls and a lengthy visit from one of my vendors, by the time I got the toerails glued up--something I wanted to accomplish today so the rails could stay in the clamps all weekend--all I had time to do afterwards was sand and paint the coachroof panels one last time. |
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