Making A Laminated Tiller

Replace that old worn and delaminated tiller with a new hand made laminated wood tiller.

Making a laminated tiller.

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. The following assembly instructions are for a laminated tiller but can be easily adapted to any woodworking project. 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. Learn how to make a tiller in this dad edition of drew s cruise featuring my dad and his friend greg p.

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. Make the centerpiece of your sailboat s cockpit stand out. Be sure you make a perfect form use proper clamping methods and spread enough waterproof glue to every clean mating surface.

Teak strip in 6mm is available but it sounds a bit thick to. My laminated teak tiller is reaching the end of its days. But not laminated bows with multiple thin lams. If you are going to make a laminated tiller.

I make my living making laminated wood archery bows. We can make wood backed wood bows or even wood compound bows with hand tools. It s made from 6 layers of 6mm teak.