Tonight's task was to carve out the strongback. I started by heading back to Home Depot and getting a 16 foot long piece of pine quarter-round trim. Then I drove a finish nail into each of the offset marks on the strongback from last night.
Next, I took some clamps and roughed in the curve, placing the quarter-round strip against the nails.
In spots, it helped to add another nail to hold the quarter-round flush against the mark:
With the strip in place, it was a simple matter to run a sharpie against the inside and mark the curve:
From there, I used a circular saw to carefully cut along the line, and with that, the strongback shape is established:
Tomorrow night I will start making the cross-frame members.
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