{"id":79,"date":"2008-01-31T06:51:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2021-09-19T18:52:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:52:24","slug":"116-fiddlehead-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/116-fiddlehead-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"1:16 Fiddlehead &#8211; Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fm-bottom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/fm-bottom-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"bottom\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Unlike many canoes, this one has a flat bottom. It is very much like a dory bottom, flat, wide, and with a very slight bit of rocker (fore and aft curvature). One of the benefits of this sort of bottom is relatively high &#8220;initial stability,&#8221; meaning that it isn&#8217;t as tippy as a narrow round bottom or v-bottomed boat might be when you first step in to it. It&#8217;s also very easy to construct.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t find boards wide enough for the full width, nearly 15 inches. So, we edge glue as many boards as needed to make up the width. Due to lumber availability, the 1:1 version will likely require 3 boards, and that is what I did for the model. These joints are probably the most critical in the boat. They are edge joins of boards that are 9\/16 inch thick, and are fastened solely with glue. The edges have to mate as close to perfectly as possible. They will be a good place to use a #8 jointer plane.<\/p>\n<p>The photo shows how I simply cut out parts of the drawings and rubber cement them to the actual parts for cutting. The technique minimizes a lot of measuring and the errors that come along with measuring.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to show a larger version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many canoes, this one has a flat bottom. It is very much like a dory bottom, flat, wide, and with a very slight bit of rocker (fore and aft curvature). One of the benefits of this sort of bottom is relatively high &#8220;initial stability,&#8221; meaning that it isn&#8217;t as tippy as a narrow round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-fiddlehead-model","7":"category-model-building","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8309,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/8309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bob-easton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}