I've got both stems glued to the boat, one yesterday and one today. The epoxy is set up enough to work on yesterday's and I have it shaped down to a 1/2" leading edge. That 1/2" will allow me to screw a 3/8" brass stem band to the leading edge of each stem. Very nautical looking.

The inner stem isn't thick enough to screw to and help hold the stems in place. It is thick enough to temporarily hold the stems tight to the hull while the epoxy resin sets up. I mix resin and add sawdust for thickening and a coloring agent to it. I try for a consistency like peanut butter and slather it onto the inner and outer stems making sure to get enough to fill any voids. I used 9 wood screws, number 6 x 1" to hold the stems in place while the resin cures. When I tighten the screws down I want to see peanut butter coming out of the joint to tell me that there is plenty of gluing going on.

I can't leave those screw in place because they would stick into the inside of the boat so I had to make sure that when the resin cured that I would be able to back the screws out. To do that I put wax on the screws and ran them in and out of the hole enough times to coat the screw hole with wax. I think the resin is cured enough to hold the stems to the boat after 6 hours and during that time I check often to see that all of the screws will still move. I'll leave them until tomorrow afternoon when I think I can start shaping today's stem. The main tools for this part of the program are these three planes. After that it will be wood rasps and sandpaper.

Oh yeah, where do I get wax to coat the screws? A wax ring for a toilet is a perfect wax holder that I dip the screws into and then into the wood.