We all have that one work thing we absolutely hate. You know what I mean, that thing that isn’t really that hard but for whatever reason you just dread. For me it’s making steam bent keyhole kayak cockpit coamings. One of the biggest challenges when I first started designing skin on frame kayaks was creating a longer coaming that has a shape that provides real knee purchase and a lip that will hold a sprayskirt in the surf. It took a long time to come up with how to make and control the shape but even then it’s precise unforgiving work. The bends are right on the edge of what good bending oak can achieve. It’s literally the only hard part of building an SOF kayak, which is why I like to make these available for my students to save them that step, but that means doing my least favorite thing in big production runs.
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