Laminating the stem facings (4)

The aft stem facing came quite nice out of the jig.
Of course a lot of cleaning due to the squeeze out.

Thereafter further shaping with the block plane.

This picture shows the dry fit. I had to remove some material from the stem to get a better fit.

Next I fixed the stem facing with four screw in the stem. Arch Davis does further shaping in the vise but I decided to do that on the boat. For me it is difficult to clamp the stem sufficiently on the workbench.

After a bit of shaping with blockplane and and chisel I glued it on with a lot of epoxy for filling the gaps.


Tomorrow some further shaping.  Maybe this weekend I will also make the front lamination but I am not sure I have enough epoxy left.