"Henry Hefner" wrote in message
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Bob La Londe wrote:
"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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Well, I just finished welding in the last piece of aluminum on The Tin
Can Too to finish the shell of the bow. Maybe tomorrow after I can
inspect all the welds in the sunlight I'll flip it back over and start
on the inside. Man what a learning process.

I was thinking it might be fun to just temporarily throw a piece of
plywood upfront, and bolt on a trolling motor and go fishing with it
just to freak people out when they see the gutted shell. LOL.

Actually, I may not work on it tommorrow. I've dinked with it every day
after work all week. I may just take The original Tin Can out and do a
little fishing in the river. Yuma Bassmasters has a tournament
tommorrow, and I ought to atleast put in an appearance.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com

Here is a video summary of the work so far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fulnAwoRio

Bob,
That's a big project, but it looks like you have things well in hand.
Great job! Welding aluminum is a skill that not many have, if you weren't
so busy with your alarm business you could probably make some nice money
doing that.

Thanks. It would hundreds of more hours of practice before I could be what
I would consider good enough to sell my services as a welder, but I am
learning. I actually bought the boat as scrap with the specific intent of
learning to weld aluminum. Here is something else I made out of aluminum on
the last couple days. Its not fishing related though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8JxzM1D74

I decided The Minnow Bucket needed a paint job, so I bought a can of flat
black and gloss white and tried to be an artist. Take a peek:

http://tinyurl.com/499raa

That is awesome. I was not expecting that. Really looks like something
doesn't it. Pretty scary. I bet you get a lot of double takes with it.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com