Replane

I found a few hours to work on the boat today.  The afternoon was spent planing the strips I ripped last Sunday.  It really made a huge difference and I can't say enough good things about my thickness planer.  It's a well built and accurate tool.

The strips were passed through in sets of 5-7 somewhat in the order they were ripped.  They got a little scrambled after sawing last weekend so I'll need to sort them as best I can.  I used two spring clamps on the in-feed side to help heard them into the planer and built a cardboard ramp from the out-feed to a my work table.  

 Feeding from the garage to the truck.

The strips were passed through multiple times with the cutter head being lowered 1/32 of an inch between passes until they were within a sixteenth of a quarter inch.  A few strips were considerably thinner (guess I didn't do such a good job on the table saw after all) so they'll either be discarded or used in some area where thickness won't be an issue.  

The first set through was organized into four sets of four in order.  I'll need to do this for all of the strips but the rest were just bundled together into sets that were ripped from the same board.  

The markings on the end of the strips are the orientation marks.  The marks on the strip edges indicate length, set number and order.

I'm glad I decided to plane the strips.  The surface is much more smooth and I expect I'll spend less time sanding the kayak in the end.

You can see the grains are matching up nicely in this set.

I'll soon begin scarfing and actually putting the strips on the forms.