Thursday, April 10, 2008

James Makes Butt Blocks

A Butt Block in Action

We started out with two 8 foot pieces of plywood. I, James had to block the two panels to make 16 foot blanks. Blanks are sections of plywood that you prepare and later cut out a pattern from. We had to butt block the pieces together because you can not buy 16 foot pieces of plywood at a store. Also building a 8 foot kayak would not be good enough for a camping trip. The tools we used for this step were nails, a hammer, glue, and a plane. We first glued the butt blocks to the sides connecting two pieces and then we nailed them together.

1 comment:

Hans Mundahl said...

Greetings Mr. McMahon - great to meet you this past weekend.

Looks like some great work you are doing with your students.

I'm going to look forward to keeping in touch.