Chamfering the stringers

It was a meditative day in the workshop, I spent the day "breaking" the inside edges of the stringers using my dads old Stanley No. 51 and my antique Stanley no 53 spokeshave and sometimes my 9 1/2 A block plane.

There was a gentle rain sounding against the roof, the smell of wood, no dust, no powertool noise, no screaming router bits, no cables, just the joy of using super sharp, well setup, proper tools, and hearing the wood turn into curly shavings.

That is the joy of doing things for yourself , you can slow down and enjoy the journey.

  70mm sheerclamp

A thing that was once living does not necessarily want to follow a line drawn on a plan - the 70mm sheerclamp is settling in to its new position with a little persuading and maybe some further tweaking , luckily we have had some really humid weather so the wood is more forgiving but that is not a great situation for epoxy bonding.

little wooden blocks are screwed to the frame to hold the stringer while it curves to its new shape, this allows the wood to follow fair curves without the influence of clamps that hold it rigid and can possibly create sharp transitions. IMHO, 

ratchet straps holding the 50mm stringers from previous days

 More stringers

 notching the frame

keeping the cutout bits to use as templates for the other side

much measuring and marking to get these shapes

using ropes and clamps to get the stringers to seat well