I have started to glue the deck of the big surfboard.... and WTF again and again and again FYYFF. I can admit the wood may move with the time but I ordered 4 inches wide planks of balsa and none, absolutely none of them were at the right size!!!! I spent that much on precut balsa because I don't have a lot of tools, guess what, I had better order roughly cut lumbers of balsa and start to work with them! So I have try my best with the Dremel to adjust each plank but I end up with spaces of nearly 3 millimeters at some place... I just have to thank Gorilla Glue for expanding and I just have to prey that it will be strong enough to hold everything altogether!
Never mind I am here to learn and I learnt that some source are NOT reliable....ARRRRGHH so frustrating! Anyway, that was my pissed off moment let move on!
So in order to put all the planks as tight as possible, I taped them under pressure the plank adopted a light "u" shape. Then I flipped the all thing over, suspended it from the corner and put some weight over. The result is a "self clamping" force. It is not very strong but it's not bad either!
Here the pattern of the tape (after gluing):
