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The Hossenfeffer III Build

#406
Had to take a hiatus from bass building to get my boat in the water, which has become the Great Time Suck of 2021. It’s just a piddling 15’ Boston Whaler, but the prep work/boating hours ratio is 1:1 under the best of circumstances, as I prepare to dip the boat into what amounts to a giant vat of acid known as the Atlantic Ocean. It EATS boats. All you lake boaters are the smart ones, but as a Bonafide Yankee, I must Embrace the Suffering. Truth be told, I’d walk on nails so my wife can get her toes in the sand. The look of bliss on her face is worth it. A couple more weeks, should be able to finish boat work, thanks for checking up on me!
 
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#407
Gilmourisgod said:
...but as a Bonafide Yankee, I must Embrace the Suffering. Truth be told, I’d walk on nails so my wife can get her toes in the sand. The look of bliss on her face is worth it. A couple more weeks, should be able to finish boat work, thanks for checking up on me!
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Don't feel bad. Jethro Gibbs has been building that boat in his basement for the better part of 18 years now. :roflmao: :laugh: :roflmao:
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I grew up a stone's throw from lake Erie and Niagara river. Been around water and boats my whole life, but I've never been a water person. I never even learned to swim. I've never been on a cruise and have no interest. I don't even like taking a bath.
The way I see it: I have lungs, feet and hands. Not gills and flippers. We came from the ocean, went to land, ended up in the trees and made our way back down to the land. I don't see going back to the water any time soon. Me? I'm still stuck somewhere back at the tree-land transition.
 
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On Cape Cod, coming from a line of sailors and boaters, its more or less encoded into my blood. I imagine it’s the same with mountains or desert country, but the sea is forever, the sound of it among my earliest memories. My wife and I grew up summers on the beach, but the sand she MUST walk is an island spit, hence the boat. The “hole in the water” cliche is absolutely true, and as every piece of metal on the boat corrodes (the ocean being the worlds biggest galvanic battery of sorts) it gets to be a little more work every year, not to mention the bottom paint needed to prevent encrustations of slime and evil creatures. Good times!! I’ll post a photo when it’s all spiffed up, not bass building, but at least some form of accomplishment…quickly erased by the Sea.
 
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My problem is less about the boat itself and more about competing time. I have a lot of hobbies, and they all seem to take place in the sunny weather. Motorcycles, kite flying, stock car racing, none of those really happen in the rain. Adding a boat to the mix would mean yet another thing that happens in the sunshine. Around here, sunshine is limited, so you're trying to squeeze too many things into about a 3 month time span.

But yeah, we have a family owned camp site literally blocks from the beach. We just go there.
 
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#414
ctmullins said:
Tim, you and I need to swap. Where I live it’s quite sunny and brutally hot most of the year, and my favorite pastimes involve overcast skies and hills. Why do I even live here? :meh:
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Yeah man, if you love overcast and party rainy, this is your place! I think we have about two dozen different ways of saying "partly sunny" too! It might be partly sunny, it might be partly cloudy, it might be mostly cloudy, it might be mostly sunny, it might be overcast, it might be partly overcast, it might be scattered clearings, it might be scattered sunshine....you get the gist. :roflmao:
With an average number of 150+ rainy days a year, I question why I live here. Oh yeah, because my job is here, and my wife is here. :meh:
 
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ctmullins said:
Tim, you and I need to swap. Where I live it’s quite sunny and brutally hot most of the year, and my favorite pastimes involve overcast skies and hills. Why do I even live here? :meh:
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100 F tomorrow Friday 110F staying in the 90's through next week.
I gave in and installed my A/C the 20degree drop from the swamp cooler was helpful, just NOT enough.
15% humidity outside, shop holding at 30% with the Swamp cooler on passive and the A/C running
 
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#418
The Boat is FINALLY in the water, basic karmic Debt for saying Fuggit about routine repairs the last few years. The bill came due, and I damn well paid it!

Managed to sneak in some bass work on a rainy afternoon. I made a very nice MDF template for this headstock, but chickened out on using a router for the pointy bits. i just did it with my Robosander and some hand work after establishing the basic cutouts with a forstner bit. You can see the volute was roughed in with some stepped router passes, neck carving a couple steps away.
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The front face (with cocobolo cap glued on) will receive binding following the whole perimeter, including the pointy little bit, which worries me. The binding thickness is .040", so it's not much of a nibble, but that little point is going to be FRAGILE. I've had very good luck with the Stewmac binding cutters, it's a superb tool and hasn't chipped an edge yet, but I'm considering adding a couple layers of tape to the headstock edge to get the first pass even thinner, like maybe .020-.030". What say ye, go for it in one pass, or a couple super-shallow passes?
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Not trying to be a dick.... because this is absolutely gorgeous!!!:drool:
And... I'm sure you will...(or have) spotted this.
Also... you got bigger cajones than I for attempting binding on this.... you'll nail it... no doubt.
But please... fix this tiny bit of non symmetry first?... thanks ;):smug:
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Sorry for the OCD.
 
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