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Message: <blockquote data-quote="muskyhunter1978" data-source="post: 511107" data-attributes="member: 34965">New Update.The weather here has been batshit crazy and my schedule just didn't give me a lot of time recently.  However, I kept plugging away at this thing and honestly, things are looking up.  I have been cleaning the tin like a madman now for a couple of weeks, an hour or so at a time.  As I may have mentioned earlier, a tiny cutting bit on a dremel buzzed right through the white stuff in the pitting, following that up with two different courseness stainless wire brushes, then a pure vineger bath/scrub, then rinse.  She cleaned up pretty darn well if you ask me.  Beginning of fabrication time.  I was going to use the transom wood as the template to make my new tin skin, but realized it was going to be a touch short in spots, mainly at the bottom, and I wanted bit more coverage down there.  I had a huge sheet of cardboard in the garage and used it to make a template off the old wood core, then added the small bit to the bottom to ensure I have as much of the transom skin covered.  It came out perfect and I'm ready to transfer this to the metal and cut it out.  More to come.[ATTACH=full]119158[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]119159[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]119160[/ATTACH]</blockquote>