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Step 25Temporary Nails Clamp Wood Together
My plywood outrigger canoe's forward watertight compartment rotted out.
I used my electric planer to hog it all down so the patch would lie flush.
I hit a nail and chipped the planer knives in the process.
Then I goobered up the edges of the hole with epoxy thickened with wood dust from my beltsander's dustcatcher.
Then I nailed the patch in place, but I didn't pound the nails all the way. They're just there to fixture it. After the epoxy set I pulled the nails, used the planer to carve down the edges, and belt-sanded it to match with the rest of the bottom. The next time I epoxied something I squeegeed the left-over epoxy dough into the nail holes.
I used my electric planer to hog it all down so the patch would lie flush.
I hit a nail and chipped the planer knives in the process.
Then I goobered up the edges of the hole with epoxy thickened with wood dust from my beltsander's dustcatcher.
Then I nailed the patch in place, but I didn't pound the nails all the way. They're just there to fixture it. After the epoxy set I pulled the nails, used the planer to carve down the edges, and belt-sanded it to match with the rest of the bottom. The next time I epoxied something I squeegeed the left-over epoxy dough into the nail holes.
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