Ok while I waited for the material to come it I went on to what section of the semi directions they give you calls out for. There was a sheet that says instead of cutting up my plans and using them for templates I should use carbon paper and trace over the plans onto poster board or heavy construction paper to make templates with. So I started on that today, I laid the construction paper under the drawing with the carbon paper in between and traced over the drawing with a red colored pencil. I used the colored pencil to see were I was going and what I had already done. Then I took each piece I had traced out and cut all the templates and marked them as I went. It worked about pretty well but it took me most of the afternoon to do just the 5 frames and all there parts, 6 hours or so to be exact. I laid out all the pieces on another sheet of plywood and did a 3D assembly like I was putting the wood pieces together and taped it all down to the sheet of plywood for now.
Tomorrow I am going back to the lumber yard to hopefully get some pieces of wood to start cutting on. I am waiting of the Jig Saw I purchased from EBay to come in also I suspect it will be here tomorrow. I am really looking forward to start cutting something, kind of excited about it actually. I am attaching some pictures of my template work. I plan on saving all the templates and storing them for later; I might get a wild hair someday and want to do another one.
Also just a note I started this blog so when I was too tired to work on the boat I could at least sit here at my desk do something productive. I am the kind of guy that likes to challenge his mind; I am not much of a TV watcher so I need to do something else to entertain myself.
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