Blue Viking
Wooden Canoe Maniac
OK!.........I SURRENDER .....After making 5 replacement ribs for my 16 Chestnut Deer to replace the 3 that are broken and cracking them in the exact same spot as the original broken ones....I GIVE UP! I have even made a form and used a piece of metal to keep the grain compressed at that crucial spot where they will crack...and they still did!....these ribs are only 1 1/2" wide by 3/8" thick and rounded at the sides...I have duplicated this and soaked the cedar and then steamed them for at least 2 hours or more and they still crack at the blankety-blank spot....Does anyone have a solution or advice as to what I am doing wrong?.............ALSO....Is there a source where I can buy these 3 ribs already pre-bent and ready to install?
I thought I was getting pretty good at this restoration stuff but this one has me stumped...Even my Old swedish lutherer grandfather who made concert violins did not have this kind of a problem...He could bend wood into a figure eight!!!!...Wish he was still around to scold me in swedish for being dumb!
suggestions or solutions will be MOST gratefully accepted.
There is no JOY in the journey today and I have taken too many strokes of the paddle attempting to arrive at my destination....Thanks
The VERY Blue Viking
I thought I was getting pretty good at this restoration stuff but this one has me stumped...Even my Old swedish lutherer grandfather who made concert violins did not have this kind of a problem...He could bend wood into a figure eight!!!!...Wish he was still around to scold me in swedish for being dumb!
suggestions or solutions will be MOST gratefully accepted.
There is no JOY in the journey today and I have taken too many strokes of the paddle attempting to arrive at my destination....Thanks
The VERY Blue Viking