Having built a hull the Hahn way I can categorically say I will never do that again... at the end of the day I had frames but I also had a massive pile of mostly useless scrap wood... It is an incredibly wasteful (and consequently expensive ) manner of construction. It still bothers me no end.
I am now incredibly stingy on my wood use and work hard to get as much out of each piece as possible.
I also stopped using photocopies (as much as possible). I have yet to find copier that reliably copies to scale... and making all those copies gets expensive too.
I now trace the frame pieces on drafting vellum ( one roll will last a long time) and then rubber cement it to the board... I also rubber cement two boards together so I only have to cut frame pieces once (that is, cut left and right frame pieces together)
It is working well for me with L'ambitieux - which I will be taking a break from for this project...
Maybe I am just getting miserly in my old age...
Davis Antscherl describes a similar (very) method in the latest NRJ... the difference is he doesn't rubber cement the tracing down but copies them with carbon paper onto the wood.
Jeff
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