Couldn't you have saved yourself a lot of grief by using slow-curing epoxy?

Love to watch your progress. How about using boards a bit wider than you need and then plane them down after the glue up? Then you wouldn't have to worry about the castellations.

I really enjoy your channel.

This was absolutely fascinating, Carl. Thanks so much for sharing it. I very much appreciated your explanation upfront but remained pretty nervous throughout. Well done! Thanks again.

Wet and prebend the strips?

Bonjour, le temps de collage est fonction de le température, pour un gros travail, je place le bidon de colle dans un seau avec de la glace. Une lame de fer placée à l'extérieur pour aider sans risquer de casser la dernière latte. Bon courage, j'adore votre travail !

Is that a series in the background??

Would a heavy duty ratchet strap work to give you more time?

I would only have applied glue to one side of a lamination and done 2-3 separate glue ups. Glue the first 2-3 strips and then clamp them in place. After the glue has set/dried, then add 2-3 more to the previous glue up and clamp in place, Then so on and so on until you have everything in place. Much easier on your clamping pressure this way.

Where did you get this amazing Leather Cover for your Notebook?

Have done smaller versions with good success. Very much enjoyed your approach. Was warned many years ago “You can’t have enough clamps.” True dat.

You’re by far the most likeable creator I regularly watch on here mate! I’m a fellow chippy, absolutely love your pride in the work. Great to see the job done so well by such a top bloke! Keep it up Carl

Boat builders bend it often, look into it. I worked in a Boat factory years ago, and they steamed timbers and bend them this was in the 70ies not new! Hand built yachts will use those technics.

How long do you Leave it under pressure

Audio and video were fine, as always.

A natural curved three is also an option. (Ship building)

Thank you for posting Carl, how do we get a heads up on the next live?

When I done similar in the past I have made the lamination thinner & I use Titebond Extend as it gives you a decent open time & also very little spring back when you un-clamp it. The other way to make the jig is to make one out of 2 x plywood with the curve cut out & make a box form, you can then use standard bar clamps to cramp it up & it gives a uniform clamping pressure. Complex glue ups are always high stress but WTAF F was you thinking using 10 minute PVA for this sort of job 😮? That's like some sort of adrenaline junky glue-up extreme joinery LOL

Note to self.... next time I am going to do a massive glue up using something with an open time of just ten minutes... I will probably create less stress for myself by also live streaming it to a few thousand people and at the same time answer their questions and talk them through it. Seems simple enough! Loving your work!

Need to watch Engles Coach Shop KZfaqs.

It is nice to have real time communication. I miss seeing your videos. It doesn't matter what they are about. I'd welcome seeing other parts of your life.

I watched a documentary in which a man recreated an ancient bow using traditional animal sinew lamination. You might want to look into that for your laminated bowed wood pieces.

do one in the morning and another's in the evening

or you could have built 2 jigs

Cut the plywood to the shape of the jig for better acces to the clamps handles..... Nice job!!!

Hi, some beams attached under the plywood table might help against the table warping, you want a curve in one plane only i guess.

I know it maybe way too late, and that someone else has probably also mentioned it, but how about sacrificial strips fore and aft, and smaller off-cut pieces top and bottom to slow the rate of castellation. 🙂

To my shame, I haven't been following this case, but I don't understand the charge. How is it against the law to pay someone not to say anything? Lawyers are having people sign NDA's all the time?!?!?!?

excellent work, such time pressure but you got there

Could you not use the inside curve to do two at a time.

I think you've short changed yourself by not leaving enough extra height so you could have shaved it off when the glue was set instead of worrying about all timbers being level plus you would have saved yourself all the hammering but of course this is all in hindside

the camera on the head isnt steady its also not very sharp beter to walk around with only the mic and talk to the camera place on some parts of the workshop

je ne comprends pas pourquoi pour utilises une olle à prise aussi rapide... cela n'est pas forcément plus efficace.

I was wondering about the comments about hips. I got an artificial hip in 1996. This is 2024 and I have the same artificial hip. When I got mine, it was 4 days in hospital, and weeks before full weight bearing. As one viewer commented, now it is almost outpatient surgery and you can go home with a cane. Unless they do both hips at the same time, then you will need two canes. My incisions were 6 inches, now they do it through a hole about an inch. Still hurts like hell.

105/205 West will set much faster depending on the temperature in your shop. You can probably do 1 each day. And yes, it is pricey. So it becomes a debate over time versus money. The boats I helped build were in the 1 to 2 million dollar range, so money was not an issue.

Like others have committed, thinner and less strips would have been a better choice. You make things work so to see how this turns out will be wonderful! This is not a wagon like Dave Engles restores, the shear mass of the undercarriage is so over specd and the bows are twice as thick as needed, but it will be a bulletproof structure! Cast iron wheels! Can’t wait to see what happens next. Most if not all, of us really enjoy your channel and doing live is good but your other format is great to! Thanxz

Missed the live chat. Enjoyed the format. Perfection isn't real. Stress is real. Preparation is real. Logical thinking is real. Getting the glue up done required all of these elements. Very impressed with your thought process, preparation and execution. This would not have worked for the staircase, which I loved, or the roof, which took a long time. But this does work for a lot of stuff. Thanks!

The Castellations can be cared for after the glue has set. Run it through your table saw (Carefully) and then through the thicknesser/surface planer. You do lose some wood, but it also takes the pressure off.

You should just glue and clamp that break / split out

I agree with the suggestion to go with West Systems. Gougeon Brothers make a wide range of products with different cure times. I would look for something that sets up in a couple of hours (105 and 206), mixed with Aerosil/Cabosil for greater strength. This takes the pressure off and lets you work a lot slower. I built a lot of boats and molds. Jamestown Distributors also sells epoxy called Total Boat and it is very popular with furniture builders.

Carl you are going about this the correct way to ensure the best outcome for beam strength. We used to make circular staircases and glued the crrcular/spiral stringers and handrails this way, 14 feet long in a vertical spiral. You need more clamps. You should modify your clamps! Remove the piviting red handles and weld a nutin its place. You can now use a impacted gun with a socket to tighten the clamps! It will save you a ton of physical activity and exhaustion. It will also be quicker. You should be using an exterior water proof glue with a longer open time. Decades ago we would use a brown resin glue that we would mix with water, spread with a pant roller, and would give us a 30 minute open time. Once these dry they will be really stable! Wonderfull job! Cant wait to see the finished project.

Well you sure won't need to get a gym membership, that is a weeks workout.

If you cut your plywood table to the same curve so that its out of the way of your clamp handles that would be a big help. When i did a similar project, i had a helper, started in the center and worked towards both ends as opposed to putting the end clamps on first. With the table cut to the curve i was able to do all the clamping from the outside and add squeeze clamps to the top without fighting them and without getting any gaps or cracks

Or 5 Glue-lam with an oak facing and POS timber core.

Magnifique

You would be better off doing 3 boards letting them Dry and then Three more

Qué pena que no te puedo escuchar en español, solo con subtítulos

So exciting!! 😅 👏👏👏 To avoid castelations you could screw a few flat and relatively narrow steel plates over about 4 of the blocks, which would be long enough to go above the entire thickness of the beam and so all the individual planks would be forced to stay aligned between those plates and the table... just a thought 😊

try soaking the boards first in water for an hour or so before the glue up... You should have more working time that way...