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Written by Magnus
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måndag, 02 oktober 2006 |
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The masik can be done in several ways. Laminating thin strips of wood over a form works well, but is rather messy. Steam bending is a clean process, but demands access to fresh oak, ash or similar, and the piece also needs to be over-bent in order to compensate for natural springback. I've tried both of these methods, but my favourite is to shape the masik from a piece of naturally crooked wood. Sten was kind enough to give me a piece of Scots Pine with a nice bend: Some work with a power planer and a hand plane renders the piece looking like this:
I draw the countours of the masik on the wood. I've determined the height using a batten while sitting in the frame. I want my masik so low that I can only just get into the kayak. The upper face of the masik can be shaped by a plane or a rasp file. The underside can be rough shaped using an axe, but I find it faster, easier and more accurate to saw several parallell cuts right up to the drawn contour line, and then knock off the waste using a chisel and mallet: The "steps" are removed with a rasp file or, if you're a speed freak like me, using a rotary grinder equipped with a coarse sanding disc. The final shaping and fitting still remains, but that's up next...
Total building time: 19 hours Next step: final shaping and fitting of the masik
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