The precision repair of a wooden boat

There was something deeply satisfying about watching a true craftsman doing their thing. This was artisanal beyond my reckoning. I had no good ideas myself on how you'd find and reuse the same hidden frame screw holes when repairing a cedar plank and putting a new one on--and doing it this way means the original frame isn't weakened with any new holes.

Such a very elegant use of geometry. Something tells me it's been done this way for a hundreds of years.

extra bonus: as a huge house renovation porn fan, I enjoyed hearing this version of Tom Silva's voice (the lead contractor on This Old House) ---as if you'd just met his older, saltier brother or something.
robbersdog49says...

Beautiful. I could watch this guy all day. Nice sift, thank you

Regarding the method for finding the holes, I had no idea either. When he scored the radius it was like a lightbulb coming on in my head. It's so simple, and so obvious once you've seen it. Genius.

SFOGuysays...

Thanks.
Might as well go for broke.

*promote

robbersdog49said:

Beautiful. I could watch this guy all day. Nice sift, thank you

Regarding the method for finding the holes, I had no idea either. When he scored the radius it was like a lightbulb coming on in my head. It's so simple, and so obvious once you've seen it. Genius.

siftbotsays...

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Thursday, November 27th, 2014 7:20am PST - promote requested by original submitter SFOGuy.

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