Making A Laminated Tiller

The following assembly instructions are for a laminated tiller but can be easily adapted to any woodworking project.

Making a laminated tiller.

Make the centerpiece of your sailboat s cockpit stand out. I cure the laminated bows in an oven for 5 hours to get best results. If you are going to make a laminated tiller. My laminated teak tiller is reaching the end of its days.

We can make wood backed wood bows or even wood compound bows with hand tools. But not laminated bows with multiple thin lams. Learn how to make a tiller in this dad edition of drew s cruise featuring my dad and his friend greg p. Imho if you don t tiller it with scrapers it s probably not primitive enough or satisfying enough.

To make the tiller. This video is about design and laminating a new 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. Replace that old worn and delaminated tiller with a new hand made laminated wood tiller.

Teak strip in 6mm is available but it sounds a bit thick to. I make my living making laminated wood archery bows. 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.