Nice craftsmanship

WOW! That is one Hell of a boat and the owner should be completely satisfied.

You do jam-up work.Be sure to let us know when you get cranked back up...

Very impressive! I am constantly amazed at the skills the members here have.

Very Nice! I'd imagine that 90s a handful 😀

You’ve obviously heard of my deer missing skills.

By the way, that’s a nice dang boat. I couldn’t fold a piece of paper better than that.

Looks like quality work...look at them welds too. Nice. Now this is a hand made usa product.

Yeah the ole boy I built it for said if it don’t run high 40’s he’s going to get a 115 tiller motor! He’s from over Atchafalya Basin, they ain’t scared of running then big tiller motors!

From one craftsman to another I want to say, "Nice Work!" That is really a nice piece of work man. Impressive.

That is very, very nice. At our business we work with aluminum every day. I know a little about aluminum fabrication... You did one heck of a job.

Do you have a die in a brake to make the ribs or are you breaking them in a standard punch and die one bend at a time?

That’s a sweet little boat

Fine looking boat. Very good work. But, where's the steering wheel? 😆

I just looked at the pictures again. Good grief... you built that with a spool gun. I'd like to see what you could do with one of our high frequency MIG machines.

Yeah, I’ve run some of the better pulsed mig machines when I use to still actually weld for a living. I’ve been saying I was gonna break down and get one for years now, but I would keep swearing everytime I built a boat it would be my last and I would talk myself out of it. It ain’t bad on a boat like this, but I’ve built some bigger v bottom bay boats, I would burn through 30 1 pound spools just doing the hull and stringers.

I brake the corrugations on my buddies brake. It’s a homemade 24’ 200 tin brakes, it’s interesting. They are formed with a die he made in a single stroke, so I guess they are really press formed more so then broke. Braking a 3” wide corrugation over 24’ in 3/16” takes all the tonnage the machine has, and the machine actually deflects when doing it so much that we have to shim and crown the center of the bottom die to account for the deflection. It’s a PIA

Buddy you have some skills. Fine looking boat.

Yeah I'm sure a single stroke 24' 3" rib would take a whole lot of tonnage. I'd love to build my own boat but I don't have a way to make the ribs. Our brake is only 12' wide 250 ton. I guess I could weld angle on the bottom but that would be almost impossible to keep from warping due to the heat.

Well if you ever decide you really want to fool with one I can get you a sheet corrugated. You’d just have to be willing to take you a trip to the greater New Orleans area to pick it up.

I’ve actaully built a few just like your talking about using angle and used half pipe excursions, and just stitched them on and had pretty good luck with it like tha believe it or not

That is awesome! Young man you have a heck of a skill and you won’t ever be without work. I’m positive that the knives you make will be as high quality as your boat builds.

Tell us about the paint, and how you make it stick.

Good Lord man, I wish you would've been posting boat builds as long as you've been a member here. That's some fine craftsmanship. Once you get your knife business going, post some up here. Skull Skullworks posts knives for sale from time to time and they're usually sold before I even get a chance to buy one