Building a Cedar Strip Paddleboard: Fairing and Sanding

<body> <h1><img src='http://playak.com/images/paddle-news/headlines/th-1405934.jpg' align='left'><a href='http://dashpointpirate.typepad.com/the_dash_point_pirate_woo/2012/07/building-a-cedar-strip-paddleboard-fairing-and-sanding.html'>Building a Cedar Strip Paddleboard: Fairing and Sanding</a></h1> <p>Now that the entire board has been stripped, it’s time to fair the deck and hull and shape the rails. “To fair” is defined as “to make the connection or junction of (surfaces) smooth and even.” Because we milled the strips ourselves, there was some unevenness in the thickness of the strips that needed to be evened out. </p>  <script type="text/javascript"> _qoptions={ qacct:"p-caxN4R7Sm1pto" }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://edge.quantserve.com/quant.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-caxN4R7Sm1pto.gif" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/> </noscript>  <script type="text/javascript"> __compete_code = 'f5ce360215a93b36d13349b6a65e881b'; (function () { var s = document.createElement('script'), d = document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0], t = 'https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://c.compete.com/bootstrap/' : 'http://c.compete.com/bootstrap/'; s.src = t + __compete_code + '/bootstrap.js'; s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = 'async'; if (d) { d.appendChild(s); } }()); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> try{ var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-482486-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}</script> <script src="/js/gaAddons.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </body>