The timber used for skins & ribs is 6 mm Paulownia. I like to go with a 5mm plywood spine for a bit of extra strength. Ribs are 6 inches apart. The board is going to be finished with tung & orange oil. Glue used Titebond 111
DIMENSIONS :
5 ft 9 inch X 21 inch X 2 3/4 inch
Heres some pix
Chine strips secured with sewing pins inserted using multi grips
Frame clamped to rocker table during assembly
Frame secured to a second rocker table with bottom facing up - ready
for bottom skins to be glued on
First bottom strip 145 mm wide X 6mm thick
This is the tail end - that block of wood attached to the spine is only temporarily in place to help hold the skin to the spine when gluing - It will be cut off when I jigsaw the fish tail outline