Building a Curved Wooden Boat Transom Frame | Building Temptress Ep14

[@johnh1192]

One of the most satisfying things there is, is removing the clamps the next day and having absolutely no spring back.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Yes it sure is nice when things stay put. There was next to no spring back in this!

[@finnwalker1586]

Love your work man, amazing craftsmanship. Definitely looking forward to seeing a bit more of your handtool work now too!

[@TitoRigatoni]

Very nice work! I think if I were doing this for a living I would definitely invest in a 5-axis CNC router. It would make all of the carving steps a lot easier and faster, with less manual cleanup required.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Yes 5 axis would be a game changer for this process 👌

[@stephenwhite4257]

Pardon my French,but, DAMN DUDE!! That is impressive. Incredible skills.Thanks for the show.

[@markpalmer5311]

Beautiful, Dan. So helpful to watch all the learning process and the tips that come from it. I re-watch these videos a few times as I put together a plan for retirement shop and tools.

[@MurraydeLues]

Love it. What amazes me is only about 10% give it a like. Best sound in a wood shop is a sharp plane doing its thing.

[@bruceottway8369]

That transom frame is a work of art, it would look great on my wall with my monet 😂😂

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

🤣

[@williamkhatchell620]

Very nice!

[@dwaynekoblitz6032]

Before you use it to make a boat, put some strings on it and go on a Harp concert tour to raise money. 😂😂 Pretty amazing construction.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

😆 I thought it looked like a massive shark jaw 🤣

[@Nomadboatbuilding]

Hey Dan, got a small game changer for you. There’s a company called Mellif that makes a battery powered glue gun that takes Dewalt, Makita or Millwalkee branded batteries. It’s pretty cheap at about $40 Canadian. Best glue gun I have ever used. Comes up to heat really fast. Stands on the battery. So nice to be untethered.

[@MrBarrymills]

I have a similar glue gun in Oz, Ryobi brand, very handy.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Thanks Mark, that sounds good I’ll take a look at them 👍

[@kenlloyd3078]

A nice piece of 3D sculpture, Dan. I know this will make me sound a bit slow, but I was waiting at first for the shaping to be done in your CNC router! Then, fortunately before your explanation, I realised the router wouldn't work for a frame that wasn't flat. Doh!

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

😆 you could do it on a big router but it won’t fit on mine. Still, doing it the manual way will be a nice demonstration for the videos when the time comes.

[@andrewknill8652]

Excellent video again Dan - entertaining but so informative - thank you!

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Thanks!

[@scottcates]

Wow! This transom framing is a work of art and the video is superb. I didn't want it to end.

[@MichelBerryer]

Brilliant work Dan. So much fun to see her taking shape!

[@johnnyknap]

That transom jig is ingenious ! Nice work.

[@GLF-Video]

That’s complex woodworking. Wow!

[@dennisdavidek6694]

Excellent last minute adjustment by adding the clamping timbers.

[@StuffIMade]

Hi Dan, one thing I find on a dry fit is removing the domino’s can be a pain/time consuming. One tip I have is to keep a small bucket of dry fit domino’s, these would be sanded down ever so slightly making it easier to fit and remove to test a dry fit before a final glue up. Saves me a load of time trying to extract tight fitting domino’s each time. I wonder if this would be of any use in your use case or if you have a way of extracting tight fitting domino’s I am not aware of?

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Yes they are a pain to remove. I don’t have any tricks there really, just a set of mole grips and lots of wiggling 😆

[@andypandy955]

What can you say but superb.

[@norduferhandel4512]

Hello Dan, seeing you pull those jig pieces off the router table remained me of the lazer tables after cutting steel plates. They did the same assemby process of every thing "snapping" together and located with tabs. Doing wooden boat construction this way definitely makes building multiple boats easy.

[@afterthemouse]

Great to see her progressing Dan. Look forward to seeing you down river in one of my locks next summer.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

It won’t be in this boat next summer, probably Miss Isle but maybe the one after in Temptress 👍

[@markgallagher1376]

Brilliant!!

[@williamhanna5224]

You got it right !!! Excellent work !

[@ThaJay]

Bloody good work this

[@ArcticSeaCamel]

I was just thinking to put some additional clamps when they appeared! :D But this method is really interesting and pretty complicated actually. There's really nothing straight and square there. That would be a job for 6 axis CNC-robot 😉

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Oh yes, a 6 axis would definitely be the tool to shape that with 👌

[@bradfordsimms715]

Amazing

[@JJ-Mandy]

Hi Dan, I’m an Englishman living in Geneva, Switzerland. I’m sure this boat would be amazing on lac Leman. I have a couple of questions but I’m sure it’s not an easy answer so a rough estimate would be good to know. How many man hours do you think the project will take in total? How much is the overall material cost, including the engine? Will you do all the mechanical side of the build as well? It’s fantastic watching you work! Truly inspirational!

[@StuffIMade]

Great video … one thing… set a fixed white balance on your camera when in front of that window, when you move and more light hits the camera the exposure changes and goes dark.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

I know the shot you are talking about, I had my iso set to auto 🤦‍♂️

[@StuffIMade]

@@DanLeeBoatbuilding sorry I said white balance I meant ISO ;)

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Yeah that shot annoyed me when it came to editing but I didn't have time to do another take. I'll be on fixed ISO next time :)

[@АлександрКутузов-е6ф]

Спасибо Ден

[@86OEd]

👍👍👍

[@n1352-m1i]

nice! I've always wondered how do these domino joint fare compared to scarf joints (with the best plugs one can find or even make)?

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Scarfs are probably stronger but the two joint types are often used in different scenarios. Scarfs would be tricky to use in this case but… I’ll be doing something similar (a bevel notch) in the next video when I install the transom posts 👍

[@KenDavies-qv3fs]

I started building boats back in the 50's when things were totally different. Is it better today?

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

I’d definitely say things are different. I suppose better is subjective, I think so in the respect that things are more accurate, repeatable, stable and consequently will be less maintenance. But then we have much better glues and coatings that didn’t exist in the 50’s. Also systems like CAD and CNC that are far more obtainable now for someone in my position. I think if all that had been readily available in the 50’s people would have been using it.

[@georgedoolittle7574]

Might help your viewers and even you to know "transom" is the rear of the boat as opposed to the "bow" which is the front of the Boat and in the rear be the "working end" where the rudder and steering mechanism is located to control said vessel as opposed the bow where a jib/spinnaker are located to provide forward movement and then amidships the main sail and center board to provide for vessel stability. As for using a curved approached beyond astchetics which clearly a much better looking beautiful transom also creates vastly more surface area and if the joinery be proper immensely more strength and rigidity compared to squaring off. Power boats of course need no center board nor sail of course😊

[@pbuhler1]

You know this boat is a powerboat.

[@MrTrapper28]

If you don’t know what a transom is, that is the least of your problems!

[@SIRyker]

They unleashed the horses in the 900 they would need a major beef up of the cvt.

[@Fr99763]

Very nice again! How do you call the machine you used at min 33 to drill the little holes for the little sticks?

[@scottcates]

Domino hole cutting thingie.

[@Fr99763]

@@scottcates cheers

[@flox8342]

i wonder if milling that part on a 5-axis would even be more time consuming than doing it by hand, because that z-axis will bite you hard with all the unknown factors due to material springback etc. as it is not aluminium or steel.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

It would take a while to set up as you'd need to fixture and locate it somehow. Springback in this was minimal so if you were just milling the outside profiles then it would be fine. If I had access to this sort of tech then I'd approach the transom in a different way; I'd make all the laminates oversize and then machine a location joint between the parts meaning there was no need for the trimming and domino joint process 👍

[@mattiasfagerlund]

I've seen you use Fusion 360, but how do you flatten surfaces using Fusion 360 like you did with the transom?

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

This needs to be done outside of Fusion, I use a program called mesh mixer to do this at the moment.

[@martinmarriott3607]

You can do it in Fusion by using the Sheet Metal workspace which supports Flat Patterning

[@mattiasfagerlund]

@@martinmarriott3607 I believe that Dan's working with non-developable surfaces - surfaces that cannot be flattened without some distortions. I believe the Sheet Metal workspace works with surfaces that are trivially flattened. Think of the difference between flattening a beach ball and a box.

[@martinmarriott3607]

​@@mattiasfagerlund You are correct that Fusion cannot flatten surfaces that have curvature in more than one direction. Software that can (Exact Flat etc.) is very expensive. However that is not the case with the transom that we are referring here. This could have been done by Fusion.

[@mattiasfagerlund]

@@martinmarriott3607 Ah, yes, but the planking probably won't be. I'll have to check out the functionality in fusion to see what I can get away with!

[@TalkinAboutTheDude]

Why does the bench belt sander wiggle?

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

It makes the belt track up and down slightly which varies the sanding surface so your not always sanding on the same part 👍

[@scottcates]

I wondered the same thing.

[@mitchd949]

Excellent work, but that measurement at 9:29 is NOT good. Get a piece of rigid square aluminum tubing or L-channel and make yourself a "beam compass" or "trammel" sort of tool. Use two pointers on the tool, span the points on your curved wood buck, then check against a flat tape measure or ruler.

[@DanLeeBoatbuilding]

Agreed it was a far less than ideal way of measuring. I’ll take a better one before amending any of the files 👍

[@MrBarrymills]

Can I offer a bit of advice to a very talented (young) builder?. Stop using your hands to bang bits together. You are creating minor but incremental damage to your hands and wrists every time. Which WILL come back to bite you. But hopefully you will still be kick'n ass when you are 70. (Like me:)