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MDF plug pictures

Sunday, February 15, 2009

The first half of our Pikanto plug is now milled. The other half will be done next weekend - and then we have a lot of painting and sanding to do before laminating moulds.

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Milling MDF

Monday, February 9, 2009
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More plug milling

Sunday, February 8, 2009

The model yacht plug we're making is milled in three stages. First a rough-cut, then a finish-cut which cuts the plug 1 mm undersize. Then it's coated with a thick layer of tooling gelcoat. What you see above is the final milling pass where the gelcoat is cut down to the final shape. This way [...]

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Milling MDF

Monday, February 2, 2009

Jari is making plugs for our latest IOM-project, and he posted two new videos: Rough milling:   Finish milling: The 1000 mm long hull plug will be made from a left and a right half, and each half consists of three parts. This is the first part from the bow to around 300mm.

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