Not a good day
I will start by saying that I am fine. The boat is also good, although I won’t know for sure until I dig around some more and flip her over. […]
I will start by saying that I am fine. The boat is also good, although I won’t know for sure until I dig around some more and flip her over. […]
Okay, this first picture is before both wheels are up, but the light was just too cool, not to post it. The 14 foot wooden wheel is off its track a […]
It is one if the watershed facts of woodworking. You need to make a jig to make a jig to make something right. It’s always true and always worth a […]
Dry fit only, but they are in. Now I need to protect the exteriors so I don’t put epoxy all over them as I finish the last few layers of […]
Today I cut out a nice big chunk of the bow framework to make room for a window. Each step makes this big ball of wood look more like a […]
Today I am rebuilding the scaffolding so I can get the space i need to spin the boat. Originally I planned to lift the boat and then move one of […]
I had a friend come over today to take some photos. I’m just a couple of days away from finishing this diagonal layer. When its done I will start building […]
Except for the crumpled up blue tarp… she is very pretty at night. This is the view out of our back window.
The fourth mid-ship element is in place!!! Now its time to sand the crud out of the tsunamiball inside and out, finish the last element, and then… I can start […]
The last mid-ship element is up and I am feeling very good about progress. Now I need to buckle down and prep for a week of rain.
I had to think through this one a bit. I’m not a 3D designer by any stretch of the imagination. Instead of using a nifty 3D application to model this […]
https://youtu.be/DTJ-s_c7YUE I have been making steady progress, but it has been slow. In this video I explain how I got here and the reasons for the long time it has […]
Today I am back under the boat, working on removing the old wheel carriages. My first discovery was that the 14 foot donut on the back side of the boat is impaled […]
This week I’m sketching a chair that I could use for a snooze, or sit backwards and do some… sketching. It’s not for the tsunamiball, it’s just for fun. I […]
I have been bad about posting, but lots going on. I’ve been getting my feet under with me with metal work. Most of the build process is super similar to […]
After the fall… I have been taking time to make the build as safe as possible. Here is what I have been working on… Getting the boat back in place […]
My new crazy Friday project is designing and building a complex curve steam bent wooden chair. i know most of my days are already crazy, building the giant […]
Boy, I could have sworn that I used 16 foot 4x4s on the scaffolding. This was the launching off point for my “how to spin the boat” problem solving. […]
One of the challenges of building something big is finding a flat space for assembling final elements. It’s not hard, just time consuming. I have a large stack of 16 […]