Experimenting with how best to cut the frames with test wood, it looks good and it makes this project feels like my vision is coming alive. Some notes, the book “Boatbuilding with Plywood” recommends building both sides of the frame member at once by stacking two pieces of lumber, transferring the full-size half frame, clamp both lumber boards and then cutting along the lines of the frame to get two even frame members. I did this first with a jigsaw and to cut two pieces of hardwood mahogany with a jig saw is tough and the lines were not straight at all because the toughness of the mahogany. I ended up scrapping the idea of using the jigsaw and switched to a circular saw. The advantage of the circular saw was that I got much straighter lines, which make sanding/planing afterwards much easier. It is very difficult to cut two boards of mahogany stacked on top, you need to make sure the grain of both boards are similarly aligned and that you’re cutting along the grain and not against it for a good even cut. Altogether, my test cut was much better than I thought, and putting both bottom frame members together made this dream seem so much more real.