building wooden sailboat mast
15' wooden mast for a sailboat: in the event that you wake up one day and think, "gosh, i could really use a fifteen-foot mast," i'm going to teach you exactly how to make one yourself, starting from scratch.actually, this tutorial is informative not only for aspiring boatbuilde.... The ultimate wood for masts and spars is sitka spruce. check a.l. condon. good stuff is getting harder and harder to acquire. like crag cay said, google "wooden masts" & there should be alot of information. if you familerize yourself with the basics & differing construction techniques, you can direct more specific questions to the forum members.. An instructional video on how to build a sturdy, affordable, wooden sailboat mast.. 
building wooden sailboat mast Making wooden spars introduction. a spar is a general term for any mast, yard, boom, gaff, bowsprit, etc. on a vessel and nowadays they can be made from wide range of materials including wood, metals such as aluminium and the more exotic materials like carbon fibre. however, our focus is on a standard solid mast seen on small and big vessels alike.. Most wood boatbuilding tasks begin with millwork and the spars are no exception. our first step is to plane the wood to thickness then joint one edge. the sitka spruce piles are graded by dimension and quality as we work through them. the jointing and table saw work to follow are done with the aid of a power feeder shifted from tool to tool..
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