Just found your channel today. And just finished binge watching every episode of this season. All 28! Now I'm caught up and waiting for the next episode along with every one else. The build has been fantastic to watch. Crack on! 👏🏻
Fillets do MORE than secure and create a transition - PROPERLY done a fillet creates a structural joint that is stronger than the wood itself, you can have an immensely strong joint without using glass, but adding glass increases that strength enormously
You are right and if the joint was subject to compressive loads it may not need glass. These joints are subject to tensile and torsional loads and as such need bi axial reinforcement.
Great video nice to see the lines of the boat as you lay down the fillets also thanks for breaking down the hours, it sure is a marathon and not a sprint in some aspects of the build. Also, can't get much more Canadian then reusing Timmy's cups eh!
Wooden tongue depressors make great fillet applicators, they have a similar radius (about 20mm - 3/4”). If I want a square end I just hit them with a chisel at an angle - slightly off square is usually the best I find. I buy them by the 400 box which locally costs me about $15.00NZ. I also have a couple of modified plastic plaster spatulas for when I need a real wide angled fillet. Keep up the good work! Glassing here we come. Cheers
On the Ocean Capable Small Sailboat channel, he's using silicone spatulas to great effect for creating fillets. They work so well that I've gone out and bought a couple for the upcoming filleting work on my dinghy.
@@RoversAdventure I would say the hardest part is finding somewhere to do the work, especially here in the UK where land and buildings are so expensive.
@@tonysutton6559 I hear you my friend. This boat shed is a 40 min drive from my home and on top of that I am paying market rent. I hope to get it to my property when it is at a stage where I can move it.
Thank you again Alan for this week's update. Do you have a source for the plastic chisels you were using? Take care and best wishes to you, Mrs. Wave Rover and Mr. Speckles.
Small strips of 3-4mm ply (or any timber for that matter), sharpened like a chisel, and or skewed left n right make excelent cleanup tools for filleting.
Most of the online Chandelier seem to carry them. I like them because they are easy to clean and reusable. However, as some folks have said, a sharpened tongue depressor would work well.
@@jeremyduncan3654 I just looked it up. A lot of similarities in the building jargon for both. This week I am working on longitudinal frames (longerons) however it won't be seen for a few weeks due to the magic of the Wave Rover Timeline, lol.
It's not too difficult to get these right, and one should should always strive to do just that, but the design has a fair amount of redundancy built in.
@@RoversAdventure I'm wondering about the bilge keel, how will they be fitted? I thought they would have been part of the construction, or hard mounting points incorporated into the hull.
So iow’s a fillet rounds off the angle so the glass has more surface area to bond with which increases strength and eliminates air pockets? Spring is on the way and not a moment too soon.