Cutting the Stern and Bow Boards

This afternoon we cut out the stern and bow boards for the pram. We had bought some pieces of 3/4" mahogany plywood off the shelf for this purpose. I took the plans and squared them onto the plywood. I tacked them down at strategic places with pushpins.

Then I removed the pins and the plans and connected the dots with a sharpie pen giving me the outline of the board. I did this with both the bow and stern plans. We used the table saw to cut the straight cuts and then clamped the boards onto the work mate and cut the curved top of the boards with the saber saw.

After the whole process was finished, we laid the pieces on the plans to see how close we had come. They turned out pretty well! Now we have to put the prescribed bevels on the side edges of the boards and they will be ready to place on the ladder frame and have the side planks glued to them.