Hi everybody ! I am back. In my previous posts I mentioned that the Mahogany provided in the Amati kit would have been eno-

ugh to finish the boat but it did not give me enough wood to experiment with the finish on the boat. So I secured some Honduras Mahogany (FIG. 1) and cut it down to size. Since the top of the boat is curved I had to narrow the sides of the planks. To do this I used my Jim Byrnes disc sander with a 15-degree angle to do this job. By doing this i minimized the gaps. To glue the planks to the plywood I used white Gorilla Wood glue and cyanoacrylate gel glue. The technique I used resembles spot welding and is also referred to “stitching.”