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| Step one: glue the lining, and hope that it's all straight up and down. |
With the hull planking and most of the filing done, it's time to return to planking, this time the exterior faces. The first stop is the stern, the interior face of which I lined two months ago. The next step will be the bulwarks. Unlike when I lined the interior, the bulwarks now are in their fixed, curved position; we'll see how much extra bending and twisting goes into getting them to lay straight. This will also be good practice for lining the more complicated contours of the lower hull.
I am going to return to smoothing out the hull. The metal file did a handy job getting rid of the pinheads and smoothing a few things. However, it's a big metal stick; it stank at getting into some of the concave curves. Will go in for a sanding, line the gunwales, and then get to work lining the hull.
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| Step two: trim and sand down. That little nibs/bumps at the top-left and -right will be sanded/trimmed more thoroughly once some dark flashing gets set down on that top edge. |
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