Making A Laminated Tiller

Be sure you make a perfect form use proper clamping methods and spread enough waterproof glue to every clean mating surface.

Making a laminated tiller.

To make the tiller you ll need five strips of hardwood such as oak or mahogany cut to the desired length and milled to a thickness of 12mm 1 2. Individual strips of ash and mahogany are hand selected for quality strength and appearance before being laminated using molds based on popular configurations requested by owners of specific. Make the centerpiece of your sailboat s cockpit stand out. But not laminated bows with multiple thin lams.

I cure the laminated bows in an oven for 5 hours to get best results. My laminated teak tiller is reaching the end of its days. Learn how to make a tiller in this dad edition of drew s cruise featuring my dad and his friend greg p. Teak strip in 6mm is available but it sounds a bit thick to.

Imho if you don t tiller it with scrapers it s probably not primitive enough or satisfying enough. To make the tiller. We can make wood backed wood bows or even wood compound bows with hand tools. Replace that old worn and delaminated tiller with a new hand made laminated wood tiller.

The following assembly instructions are for a laminated tiller but can be easily adapted to any woodworking project. This video is about design and laminating a new tiller. It s 1500mm long and at the stock end is 50mm by 36mm tapering to the other end with a curve of about 150mm depth in the middle of it.