In this week's video Lou shows us how he has installed the stem into his TotalBoat Sport Dory mold. He also gives us a peek at his first attempt at steaming a stem and what went wrong there. Once the stem is in position Lou uses a block plane to progressive bevel the stem to accept the planking. He has to be very careful not to take off too much material while constantly checking the angle with a baton in order to make sure the planks will be able to lay down flat against the stem. With the stem in place Lou moves onto the second layer of bottom. Like the first layer the, the second layer will be made of several long planks of thin lumber glued together at the seams. Each piece needs to be passed through the jointer, ripped on the table saw, re-sawn on the band-saw and then finally put through the planer. The pieces are then assembled in reverse order on a working bench where Lou can mix up some TotalBoat 2:1 High Performance Epoxy and spread it on the edge of each piece before bringing them over to the boat and placing them in their final position on the mold.
