Most of my blood was spent when I inadvertently stapled through a strip
missing the form but making good contact with my finger. I got better with
the Swift but I thought I was turning into a human staple cushion when I
built my canoe. The other thing that helps is using full length strips. When
I built the canoe, I was piecing them together as I went. It worked fine but
it was a lot harder.
I like the idea of the plastic staples. I'll probably look into them if I do
another project.
I think the Japanese pull saw is one of the best inventions ever. I love
mine. They are expensive but they work so much better than the cheep ones at
the big box hardware stores.
Robert S. Harper
Information Access Technology, Inc.
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From: WFS03@xxxxxxx [mailto:WFS03@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 11:56 AM
To: rharper@xxxxxxxxxxxx; Christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: plastic staples... Not so happy..
Robert,
For my 2 cents, I put some blood as well as sweat into removing the deck
from the forms on USA020, but work gloves and a Japanese pull saw made quick
work of cutting the poly staples. For glassing the deck, the staples did a
good job of holding the strips in place while sanding and fairing. The
staple color does show thru the glass, but the filler I used shows up more.
With my next boat, I plan to use the poly staples again.
Bill Scheumann
USA020 and USA040
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