Spokeshave love....

I will get back to the spokeshave but firstly I planed the outer stem, to make it square and the right dimensions. There will be more shaping to come.

I do not have a good way of clamping it so I use screws to fix it to the strongbox.

Close up of the screw clamping

I am not sure what kind of wood it is exactly but it has a very distinctive smell when you cut or plane it, sort of burt and peppery with hints of flowers....? (Sound like a wine but it is very definitively wood!)

I also needed to shape the skeg a little more for this a spokeshave is the perfect tool, but as you know I have not had the best of luck with my "el cheapo" spokeshave, see here and here. Anyhow I decided to give it a good sharpening and get on with it.

To my utter surprise I found that it is a lovely tool, cuts both fine and thick depending on what you need. An absolutely excellent tool (when sharp enough), I could have used this for a lot of tasks if I had known how much I would like it!!!!!!

Skeg after "spokeshaving" (?)

Finally I started to look into how to arrange the stem/skeg and potentially other rubbing pieces on the bottom.

Maybe this is a good arrangement?

Time today: 2h