Excellent handwork as always Nick, It is such a pleasure watching a master. I am a modeller and not stranger to build things and really want to try this one day and hands down your microBootlegger is one of the most beautiful kayaks I have ever seen, I know for sure my first build is going to be one of your kits.
What excellent work and I agree it is important for us retired people turned boatbuilder to see all the detail how a professional builds a boat. I will never achieve your perfection but we nevertheless have something in common I also use Greek yoghurt beakers and for the rest of my boatbuilding you show me how very high the bar one can set.
Beautiful build! Thank you for sharing this with us! By the way, just a heads up, keep in mind when working with carbon fiber laminent and machines, that carbon dust is electrically conductive!
I once bought 100 of the 1" small orange Pony clamps. I have about the same number of various 2" spring clamps. I got a deal on 25 4" F-clamps and have another dozen or so larger F and pipe clamps. I certainly could use more.
What software do you use to design and make toolpaths? I built my own CNC Router that is operated by Linux CNC and I’m wanting to do 3D pieces like your seat. I’m close to getting a shop and I’m going to build a strip canoe or kayak as soon as can
Hey Nick, great series, but, fine carbon dust is very toxic for your lungs. You always use a dust mask at work with epoxy. Please use it when you cut carbon with machine tools and sanding it.
Nick, I’ve been watching this series and you are a master craftsmen. But my experience in Coast Guard aviation has given me some experience with composite repairs and your sanding the carbon fibers without dust extraction and respirator is not good at all. I hope you understand that I’m not throwing stones here at all. I’m more concerned for your health. You mentioned earlier about breathing red cedar dust is bad. You have no idea how bad Kevlar dust and carbon fiber dust is. Please do us a favor as well as yourself and always have dust collection on when sanding Kevlar and carbon fiber. Very respectfully Glenn Jones
Never a dragged out video, always see something else I missed.
All that attention to detail is really paying off! Excellent!
Excellent handwork as always Nick, It is such a pleasure watching a master.
I am a modeller and not stranger to build things and really want to try this one day and hands down your microBootlegger is one of the most beautiful kayaks I have ever seen, I know for sure my first build is going to be one of your kits.
I agree with Brian, the tedious video work you do on the detail is very helpful, Thank You Nick!!
Excellent as always!!! I am liking that you are showing the detail. Too many how to videos skip these. Thanks again
What excellent work and I agree it is important for us retired people turned boatbuilder to see all the detail how a professional builds a boat. I will never achieve your perfection but we nevertheless have something in common I also use Greek yoghurt beakers and for the rest of my boatbuilding you show me how very high the bar one can set.
Good afternoon. Details made of carbon are very stylish and practical. Thank you for the idea of handling the cockpit. :-)
Small things make big differences. Nice work.
Beautiful build! Thank you for sharing this with us! By the way, just a heads up, keep in mind when working with carbon fiber laminent and machines, that carbon dust is electrically conductive!
and a few _more_ clamps... topped off with a box of clamps... just clamping it down... priceless! : )
Just thought I should use some clamps.
Awesome job sir!
Are you not supposed to use fin rollers with carbon fiber?
what software do you use for designing?
I do the boat design in MaxSurf and then use Vectorworks to create drawings and initial CAM files.
Have you ever counted how many clamps you have?
I once bought 100 of the 1" small orange Pony clamps. I have about the same number of various 2" spring clamps. I got a deal on 25 4" F-clamps and have another dozen or so larger F and pipe clamps. I certainly could use more.
What software do you use to design and make toolpaths? I built my own CNC Router that is operated by Linux CNC and I’m wanting to do 3D pieces like your seat. I’m close to getting a shop and I’m going to build a strip canoe or kayak as soon as can
I'm using Aspire to generate the tool paths for my shopbot.
All of the little things take as long as making the whole boat.
Yeah, it is really little stuff that takes up much of the build time.
Hey Nick, great series, but, fine carbon dust is very toxic for your lungs. You always use a dust mask at work with epoxy. Please use it when you cut carbon with machine tools and sanding it.
I know, some times I depend too much on my dust collection.
Nick, I’ve been watching this series and you are a master craftsmen. But my experience in Coast Guard aviation has given me some experience with composite repairs and your sanding the carbon fibers without dust extraction and respirator is not good at all. I hope you understand that I’m not throwing stones here at all. I’m more concerned for your health. You mentioned earlier about breathing red cedar dust is bad. You have no idea how bad Kevlar dust and carbon fiber dust is. Please do us a favor as well as yourself and always have dust collection on when sanding Kevlar and carbon fiber. Very respectfully Glenn Jones