Thursday, April 29, 2010

god bless you please mr. robinson

And here's to you, Mr. Robinson
Gar and Matt love you more than you will know
God bless you please Mr. Robinson,
Heaven holds a place for those with chainsaws (unless they're from the texas chainsaw massacre)

not to hard to figure out what we did today. mr. robinson took some time out of his day to give us a huge hand in the canoe. he brought his chainsaw over and we notched the whole length of the top in about ten minutes, then we took Beowulf to it, and leveled it off in another twenty.

the plan now is to finish the bottom this weekend. by finish we mean the way we want it to be on our final canoe. right now, it is leveled, but it isn't smooth. so over the next three days, we'll use the chisel and Merritt to smooth what will end up being the bottom. we may also break out my orbital sander to get it down to a sleek, smooth surface that will allow us to destroy the concrete dinghy in the race at the end of the year. once we are done with that, all of webster and wentworth will be recruited to help flip the log over (they don't know it yet) so we can start carving out the inside.

we also got it put up on two railroad ties, so we don't need to worry about the top (which is actually on the bottom right now) getting wet and punky again. we already dealt with that once when leveling it. another really nice thing about having it up on blocks is that we now have a flat surface on the bottom to hold onto when we flip it.

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