What tools are needed for shaping?

What tools do you need to buy for your first shape?
Different tools are necessary or recommended and will adapt to the equipment already available in your workshop.

Generally speaking, we recommend the following tools for shaping:
- a pencil
- a handsaw
- an electric plane (in the case of a shape made 100% by hand)
- a manual slat plane
- a surform plane to roughen the work on the foam
- a tape measure (possibly graduated in centimeters and inches)
- a Layout Square type flat ruler, for tracing the main points of your outline and positioning the fins
- a thickness measuring chisel
- a level (long enough) to correctly visualize the symmetries and shapes of the hull
- sanding blocks of different densities as well as abrasives adapted to them (provide 80 / 120 / 240 grits)
- wedges at 30 and 90 degrees to draw the rails (in the case of a shape made 100% by hand)
- sanding screens of different grains for finishing work on the rails

Updated on: 04/01/2024