Excellent Craftsmanship "JIM", for your Love of Building these Fine Canoes and for willingness to Assist your Peers in Constructing such Beauty's I Award a Golden Karma, Thank You Friend.
PADDYG
Trappers:
Stewards of the Land
Promoting the sustainable and wise use of North America's Fur Resources
pipewrench
Swamptalker Extrordinaire Swamp Talker of the Month - 04/15
Post by Jack of all Trapping on Dec 31, 2013 18:37:03 GMT -5
Wow. They are awesome pieces of work and art.
"WHERE THE DEER LEAP AND THE PANTHER CREEPS, WHERE THE TROUT LEAPS HIGH AT THE HOVERING FLY, AND THE EAGLE'S CRY BODES A TEMPEST NIGH, THIS IS MY HOME IN THE MOUNTAINS ALONE."
I see in your photo bucket that your cutting the strips with a skill saw. Do you have a jig mounted to the saw table to make the 1/4" strips? When I cut my strips I had a guy with a bandsaw mill chuck up the 1x6's on edge then cut the strips. In about 5 min. I had enough strips for several projects. I wish I had plained them though because the consistency was +\- 1/16" and when a + ended up next to a - it was 1/8" that had to be plained out.
Do you have any good advice for glassing the inside? Doing the outside was easy, but I ran I to trouble on the inside when trying to squeegee the excess epoxy out of the cloth, the cloth would slip causing a bridge/huge air bubble on the other side of the boat. I ended up cutting the bubbles out after it set up with the intent of patching them, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to work on it since out of pure frustration. That was two years ago lol
Got a buddy wanting me to mill some cedar for him to make a canoe. Any advice? Preferred grain pattern? 1/4 sawn? I have been mostly straight cutting logs on the mill for house building projects and haven't played around with 1/4 sawing yet.
If I can ever get this log house finished and moved in, a cedar strip canoe is going to be one of my winter wood working projects. Your boats are freeking beautiful!
2014-15 Trapping Season
1 bobcat
6 coons
2 yote
21 grinner
1 beaver
14 mice
2 Stinker
Nice looking canoes JimD. I plan on building three sometime. I have the molds built and the cedar for a 20' alasken freighter and I want to build each of my boys a 10' or 12' trapper.
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Outstanding work. ;D 
