Day 26 - Do a little jig

A lot of little things still to do before we glass these boards on the weekend, but we were up to the task last night. There was some tape to remove from painted boards, and some touching up of pin lines, etc. The big job was getting the rest of the fin boxes routered out as we had some issues with the jigs we'd been trying.

Lucky for us, Ben Stretch showed up, and we figured out a way to cut out a simple but effective jig in some masonite that we could use for both cuts, the box and the flange. We traced out our sizes, and measure the paths for the router, and then Ben cut everything out with the jigsaw, leaving us with one large oval for the flange, and a smaller oval insert to fit inside that for the inside box. We tested it, and then used it to cut the rest of our fin boxes and it worked almost flawlessly, making a nice clean, tight fitting cut.

Micah also started painting his Black Beauty and we prepped some of the stuff for glassing as Saturday & Sunday are going to be dedicated glassing days! Hopefully we'll have some great stuff to show off on Monday.

Attendees: Drew, Justin, Micah (guest helper and jigsaw/router expert Ben Stretch)