Clearing the decks of unfinished projects

Hi guys, I'm at the outset of some big firearms related projects, and I thought that before I got them seriously underway, I'd finish everything that I had already begun.
The big one of these is a cradle boat I was building for my daughter (who is now 2!), but luckily I've just had another one who's just 2 months...
The build has been stalled for over a year, and I've just been over the plans again, and I think I can kill it in the next month.
It has already been a mammoth amount of work, and I'm really close to the finishing stages.
It's strip planked in cedar and then it's been sheathed in light glass cloth, filled and faired inside and out. Most of the cedar planks needed to be steamed to take the curve of the hull, and individually tapered too.
It awaits a keel, gunwhales, inwhales, knees, a foor, and davits or a rocker base, plus paint and varnish.
I'll post more pictures as it continues.
Wish me luck.

I'll wish you preserverance!

Jeeeeeeeeeees, no wonder you're so blxxxy good at this woodwork stuff!

Great skill and patience, much more than I have. Noticed you "drew" around all your tools on the wall so when you get old like I am no problem figuring our where they go.:lol:

It was said that drawing around tools as a 'shadowboard' was an RAF trait, to make sure that they didn't leave the odd spanner under the accellerator of an aeroplane or under the gun button. But in the Army, we said it was so that the workshop supervisors could tell which tools the 'scouse' (Liverpudlian) fitters had taken home............. Just a joke for all you Scousers out there

She will treasure it forever! Good daddy!

Outstanding work - congratulations on both the boat and the little ones! Looking forward to seeing the finished product on this. BTW, can I ask what firearms projects you're looking at ? I always find your posts on these to be great reading and viewing, looking forward to more.

The next one is another 7.62 No4 build, but profiling and chambering the barrel from a second hand 7.62 target rifle... Then there's a mauser 98 taget rifle build in 7.62, including scratch built stock and barrel chambering and threading, I'm all ready to go on these projects in terms of components and tooling, but they're all "NO TOUCHY!" until this is complete, because once I get stuck into them, there are big hours and weeks(mabe months??) of evenings before they're finished and I won't want to stop to do this...
Will post progress on this job this weekend. It is moving...

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Originally Posted by tbonesmith

Then there's a mauser 98 taget rifle build in 7.62, including scratch built stock

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Tom, have an old heavy stock for a mauser target rifle if you want it, no charge, and its not much good to me, will get some pics later, wish it was warm enough to wear shorts here, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey in my workshop. (excellent boat by the way)

Peter, most Scousers would take the shadow board as well.

Tom,

Sorry for delay, been tied up last few days, my daughter was born Sunday so been busy.... pics below of Mauser target stock

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Originally Posted by bigduke6

....my daughter was born Sunday so...

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Happy news!

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Originally Posted by jmoore

Happy news!

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Thanks JM,

It was only a few days before she was born, I was about to part with my, Sht .22 IV, had a decent offer, but decided to keep hold of it, imagine the face on her if she wants to shoot later on in life and I have to tell her I sold it just before she was born, you can imagine the tears (probably more from me).

Today I machined up all the rest of the timber for the job, and dry fitted the keel. It doesn't look like much has moved but it's been faired inside and out, and it ready for some highbuild primer.
Tomorrow I'll glue the keel together (it's now in 3 pieces), and get it on ASAP.
The gunwhales and inwhales will need to be steam bent, so I'll post some pictures of that setup. Could be interesting if you havn't seen it done... and too easy... it surprises me it's not done more often.