Anyone interested in 83 Pace Arrow Tear down and Rebuild?

Should not be cringe worthy. This "box" is not the sink. This is only the "form" that I am making to glue the sides of the actual sink together. The "sides" of the sink will be glued around, but not to, this form.

No, there was no confusion. We both understood what was the form and what your future intentions are. I am sure it will look good but you will still have a wooden sink covered in fiberglass. With the understanding that you will likely not complete this in my lifetime, I can well understand why you build a wooden sink when you could save a dramatic amount of time by buying a sink of the same basic size and shape.

The only thing that would have made it a little nice would have been to use a board wider than 2 inches attached to the router.

It was a little too easy to tilt the router, which would affect the depth of cut, which only happened once.

After that, I used a little more pressure downward on the 2" wide wood, and it was all good.

I am happy with the way this turned out.

Remember, this is only the pattern to glue the this strips around to form the sink.

Wahoo!

After moving the router back and forth, I ended up with the sides and ends of my pattern looking like this. Nice and straight and flat, just like I wanted.

Now I can use thin strips and glue them around the pattern and have a nice square sink, with rounded corners.







This worked out very well, was easy to setup, and created a nice flat surface.

This should work for any wood that needs to be flattened.

Next was to run the router bit through the wood, so it would extend below the bottom of the board just a little bit.

I took a couple of pieces of plywood and notched them out just a little bit - red arrows, and then secured the base of the router with a couple of screws - blue arrows.

My setup looks like this. I took a 2" wide board and attached my router to it.

As I have said on this thread before - some days, you are the bug, and some days you are the windshield.

Today was a windshield day. ! Yay! :)

I wanted to make sure my jig for the sink glue-up was nice and flat, so I created a little secondary jig to flatten it with my portable router.







What I did was to screw a straight edge on both sides of the jig, and made sure they were parallel, like the above pic.

My router setup will be explained.

LouLawrence wrote:
This is one of those cringe worthy moments after showing the wood sink idea to the DW. I wonder how it will ride on those upcoming wooden tires.

navegator wrote:
I would recommend rounding the bottom corners also, square corners are hard to clean.

Look into the west system for doing the fiberglass and epoxy, I used it many times when installing navigation instruments on very expensive yachts.

navegator

Should not be cringe worthy. This "box" is not the sink. This is only the "form" that I am making to glue the sides of the actual sink together. The "sides" of the sink will be glued around, but not to, this form.

These ...............







And these .......







Will be the actual sides of the sink. They should end up being about 1/4 inch thick, with Fiberglass/Epoxy on the inside to water proof things.

I guess I wasn't very clear about it, if you thought the 2x3 box was the actual sink.

Sorry. Hope that clears things up a bit. If not, stay tuned, it will soon become more clear.

I would recommend rounding the bottom corners also, square corners are hard to clean.

Look into the west system for doing the fiberglass and epoxy, I used it many times when installing navigation instruments on very expensive yachts.

navegator

This is one of those cringe worthy moments after showing the wood sink idea to the DW. I wonder how it will ride on those upcoming wooden tires.