At 12:21 PM 8/18/2005, Nick Schade wrote: >On Aug 18, 2005, at 10:23 AM, John Fereira wrote: > >> >>Definitely. One of the details that I particularly liked on the >>Night Heron was the wood seat. That was gorgeous. Any details >>available on how it was constructed? > >I have some construction pictures at: > >http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/gallery/Wood_Seat Thanks. I saw that you had a computer model of the seat to determine the sections which I assume was used to created the sectional shape cutouts. Did you use a "real world" model (aka your butt) to create the shapes for the computer model? I'm wondering if you could shape the seat somewhat like this... Fill a box up with wet sand and cover it with thin plastic (i.e a garbage bag) Sit in it to create a depression. Fill the depression with plaster-of-paris to create a mold. Cut the mold into strips to create the sectional shape patterns Trace each strip onto paper to obtain patterns that can be glued to the wood. Laminate the wood pieces together and proceed as you did. BTW, I'm making some slow progress on rebuilding my broken Outer Island. Having a 2 year old tends to limit the amount of time I can spend on it so I figure it won't likely hit the water again until next spring. Since I pretty much have to rebuild the cockpit the possibility for a wood seat and integrated knee clips has been considered. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 18 2005 - 10:01:49 PDT
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