Learning a new Art

O.K. how many of you "Grain Surfboard" builders out there have done this. You get your kit in the mail and the first thing you do is put together the keel and frames  to try and get a look at what your new board is going to look like. Well, I bought my kit a year ago so you can imagine how many times I have done this. Now is when I tell you that I have finally put together this assembly for the last time and glued it to the bottom plank.

This is definitely not a solo project. I mean, I can surely build this board by myself but there are just some tasks that simply require more than two hands. Clamping down the frames is one of them. With fifteen frames and two clamps for each frame, that just proves that you can never have too many clamps.

Clamps are off and everything looks good. On to the next step. I was reading ahead and realized that it is going to be alot of "On to the next step".  I think this is a real good thing for me. I can set my own pace and learn the art of delayed gratification.