How to Rescue and Re-Use Some Old Timber

This is a great series on re-building an old Pilot Cutter with some awesome joinery using everything from a handplane to an axe with a tilting bandsaw thrown in for good measure. In this epeisode he shows how to rehabilitate some of the old timber from the boat and re-use it.

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and if you want to see real joinery on a very large scale there is this

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Damn you Chris !!

Watched the first link, got interested in the restoration, went back to the first episode now I’m hooked!!

Thanks anyway :D

Watched link 2.

Thats one impressive joint!!

Chris

Loved the links. I particlarly liked the wide range of tools from basic hand to electric to chainsaws. I thought the surfacing method using a router followed by a hand plane was also interesting. In the first video I thought I saw a Makita planer, but I must have been mistaken as he said in the second vid he wanted one, but got a Triton instead as it was half the price. The Mak is amazing.

That scarf joint in Purpleheart was quite something.

Sampson is a interesting character too. It took a bit of research to find out about both the boat itself and that he is a pome living in Sequim, a small town in Washington state. He bought the boat for GBP1! This is his website for more information on his Gaff Cutter, The Tally Ho.

Tally Ho… will sail again! – Sampson Boat Co.

Thanks

Regards
Paul

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Originally Posted by Chris Parks

This is a great series on re-building an old Pilot Cutter with some awesome joinery using everything from a handplane to an axe with a tilting bandsaw thrown in for good measure. In this epeisode he shows how to rehabilitate some of the old timber from the boat and re-use it.


YouTube

and if you want to see real joinery on a very large scale there is this

YouTube

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The Minister for Everything & I have been following the restoration virtually from the beginning. Despite using large power tools to shape the timbers needed, most of the joints are finished with hand tools to achieve tight fits. The lofting is also something to watch!

Yvan

I have watched it from Ep 1 as well and it is amazing how Leo has worked out how to finance the whole deal using the internet and also recruit labour when he needs it. I was watching the latest episode and noted all the machines he has managed to acquire during the build. The bandsaw is an amazing thing as it requires two operators one feeding and one operating the tilt mechanism to achieve the angles written on the timber. I only watch two series on YT and I can't decide which is best, Project Binkey or Tallyho. Both are master pieces of forward planning and both are projects largely funded by those watching.

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Originally Posted by Chris Parks

I have watched it from Ep 1 as well and it is amazing how Leo has worked out how to finance the whole deal using the internet and also recruit labour when he needs it. I was watching the latest episode and noted all the machines he has managed to acquire during the build. The bandsaw is an amazing thing as it requires two operators one feeding and one operating the tilt mechanism to achieve the angles written on the timber. I only watch two series on YT and I can't decide which is best, Project Binkey or Tallyho. Both are master pieces of forward planning and both are projects largely funded by those watching.

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That's describes my sentiments as well, watched them both from the beginning and look forward to each new episode. Think it was from this site (possibly yourself) that I got the initial video links. Leo's work is inspirational and makes me think it would be good to build a boat but I have a 6 or 8 year old part built kayak to finish first.

Really great watching people that are that good. Real work and no showing off. He was really putting in some hard graft on that scarf joint. Bet he was glad to see the last fitting come together. I'll be watching the rest of the series.
Regards
John