Making A Laminated Tiller

Teak strip in 6mm is available but it sounds a bit thick to.

Making a laminated tiller. We can make wood backed wood bows or even wood compound bows with hand tools. 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. Make the centerpiece of your sailboat s cockpit stand out. This video is about design and laminating a new tiller.

Imho if you don t tiller it with scrapers it s probably not primitive enough or satisfying enough. The following assembly instructions are for a laminated tiller but can be easily adapted to any woodworking project. I make my living making laminated wood archery bows. Replace that old worn and delaminated tiller with a new hand made laminated wood tiller.

But not laminated bows with multiple thin lams. 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. 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.

It s made from 6 layers of 6mm teak. Learn how to make a tiller in this dad edition of drew s cruise featuring my dad and his friend greg p. If you are going to make a laminated tiller.