A spooky form

I've started construction of the kayak. The first job was to make a batch of wood strips (6mm x 20mm). Rather than buy cedar strips (which would have cost about £500), I have made my own by milling down 'whitewood' from Wickes. I bought twenty  18mm x 44mm x 2400mm pieces which each yielded four strips after two table saw cuts and a run through a thicknesser. They are quite knotty, so I may come to regret being a cheapskate. I will remove any bad knots and join smaller pieces together with scarf joints.

I made the forms from plywood, and the strong-back is a straight piece of  ' two by four', also from Wickes. The fittings to attach the forms to the strong-back were designed in Openscad and 3D printed.

Here is the assembled form, lit by green laser light from a level finder (to help get everything lined up nicely).