Is This The Future of Wooden Boat Building? | Building Temptress Ep3

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Is this the future of modern wooden boat building? In this video I am cutting the parts for the first frame, assembling them on the frame construction table and then trialling a system that I have never seen done before!

I return the frame to the CNC machine and 3D carve it in a two sided operation that will pre cut all the bevels and notches within the frame, massively speeding up the rate at which I will be able to assemble this boat down the line.

I like to think that this could be how wooden boat building might look in the future, perhaps this is a system that will allow more companies to begin integrating wooden boat building in a financially viable way and reduce the amount of horrible fibreglass boats that are being built!

But, it's not just available commercially, as home boat building still remains very much at the heart of what I do, I am making these plans available to buy so that you can build this at home as well if you want! Check out the links below to find the plans.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:59 Cutting solid wood parts
10:11 Glueing up frame 1
25:32 CNC carving frame 1
38:09 Looking at the frame and what's next

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[Chris-bgmk]

Hey Dan, GREAT work! I'm a former machinist and I can almost guarantee you're getting chatter leading to the surface imperfections and possibly most of your breakout problems as well. This would largely be due to the long unsupported runs of material in between the four hold down points. I'd recommend packing under the whole run, and applying a half dozen clamps or so interior to each run. Make the material "rigid" and you'll reduce vibration/chatter and get much better finish, hopefully also reducing the breakout. Climb milling is probably the best bet, but you can experiment with conventional. Also, try a new milling cutter, not the one that trimmed that clamp. 😃

[billradford]

A Finnish guy on YT channel 'Arctic SeaCamel' is building a 50ft yacht using similar CNC techniques. He carved the 2 sides of his stem in the same way you have shaped the edges of your frame. He worked right through the Finnish winter which makes the job a LOT harder! Both of you are pushing the boundaries of wooden boat construction. Well done.

[tlever]

I'm impressed by your fusing of modern tooling with old school materials.

[giacomodante]

you're ALWAYS the best young boat builder that i know. as well as being, and this is rare, an extremely pleasant person. put the two together and you'll understand why I can't not follow your channel.

[nutsmcflurry]

This reminds me of an elderly gentleman that was a violin maker. He was one of three brothers that were makers. His difference is that when useable, he would remove most of the wood with power tools, this was before cnc router tables.

In the maker competitions he would enter, there were many detractors of his working style. He wasn’t being true to the craft, by not doing everything by hand. There were some that even wanted him banned from the competition.

With a smile he handed me the previous weekends 1st place winner.

[Charlesredporsche]

I'm not a boat builder. I'm a woodworker, but I found this quite interesting and from a technical point of you. It was very well done. I wish all videos on YouTube where it is well done is this.

[brucemitchell]

Great seeing old technology married with modern technology! Can't wait to see the final product!

[peterritchie]

Delighted to see you finally building full scale, now all you have to do is overtake Polymerman Boatbuilding 😉 go Dan! Keep up the excellent work!

[percorell]

You make a fine job, been there done that to. My latest project was in year 2001 though but wrote rutines to unfold panels and planks, trivial things like sections, plotted full size -- think you get the idea. So it is wonderful to se, esp putting bevels onto frames. Still there are more innovation that this craft would profit from, ways to completely rewrite the basics. Thanks -- got some of my fait back.

[svlamancha]

Great episode Dan. Another plastic you could try is a roll of carpet protection film it’s slightly tacky so sticks down to a work table really well. Looking forward to more frames👍

[andrewclarke]

Superb evolution of your processes on this beautiful boat project.
As you say this method should drastically assist down the line so long as extremely accurate frame positioning will be the key and it will be very interesting to see this approach develop. You always take great care and demonstrate your work really well to camera.
Can’t wait to watch this progress 👍🏻

[bananaas]

Man, I'm so damned impressed! I've built many boats and I've lofted a number of boats on shop floors 40+ years ago.Did you loft the lines in a CAD program, which computer programs are you using? I'm using a CNC to build guitars. I'm drawing the instruments out in CAD as though I was lofting a boat. Great fun. Keep doing a great job.

[garyengelman]

I've always wondered why more people weren't doing this, I suppose because it's not traditional. Coming from an industrial design background this is a very good technique to use CNC equipment.
In fact have helped a few boat builders, canoe builders and kayak builders do this. The hard part is actually modeling the parts before you can cut them. Easy to do if you are proficient and CAD work. It's interesting there are some things about wood that no matter what you do you just can't get around. Absolutely brilliant, you've given me a lot of food for thought.

[markpalmer]

Dan, very exciting development and I can see many comments support your thesis. To me, this is one of the most valuable project series on boatbuilding. I think you’re going to make very artistic boats so much more accessible to individual hobbyists and professionals, alike.

[andreasmeerkamp]

Great new technique and the frame looks like a piece of art

[glassgoat]

Pretty amazing to see the complex bevels created that way!

[danosburn]

I was planning to do something very much like this back in 2018 when I was in school for CNC machining. we had acquired a shop bot and I was tasked with learning how to use it. we were even using Fusion 360 as well! unfortunately the project never came to fruition. very cool to see someone with all the resources necessary doing it!

[NickSchade]

Nice work Dan. Have you thought about making the individual parts a bit oversized on the edges that will get milled in the final assembly to assure that all surfaces are machined even if there is a minor misalignment? Will you be rounding over the edges of the stringers to match the inner radius from the ball-nose or square up the notches?

[ZazzanPirate]

First time I watched you, thanks for sharing your experience

[lionelfournier]

Yet another excellent video Dan!
Had been wondering for some time (during the 1/4 scale build) when you’d come around with CNC machining those bevels and pockets 😀.
Clearly adapting to grain orientation will require tweaking the tool paths and is a step up in mastering the CAM software.
Very well done sir!
Looking forward to the large frames, to see how you’ll fit them on the bed of your machine and how you’ll work around chattering issues.