Making A Laminated Tiller

Make the centerpiece of your sailboat s cockpit stand out.

Making a laminated tiller.

The following assembly instructions are for a laminated tiller but can be easily adapted to any woodworking project. I cure the laminated bows in an oven for 5 hours to get best results. My laminated teak tiller is reaching the end of its days. But not laminated bows with multiple thin lams.

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

It s made from 6 layers of 6mm teak. If you are going to make a laminated tiller. We can make wood backed wood bows or even wood compound bows with hand tools. 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.

Imho if you don t tiller it with scrapers it s probably not primitive enough or satisfying enough. Teak strip in 6mm is available but it sounds a bit thick to. To make the tiller.