Blogs about: Cedar Strips
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Progress thus far
The picture below contains a couple of items that I want to touch on. The first is the inset of the bird, done in a darker cedar than the surrounding strips. Besides being an attractive feature, the i… more →
greybeard canoes & kayaks
Wood arrived today!
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wrote 2 months ago: Urban Boatbuilders, a nonprofit organization, had cedar strips they couldn’t use (they build w … more →
Progress thus far
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wrote 4 months ago: The picture below contains a couple of items that I want to touch on. The first is the inset of the … more →
The last strip
wrote 2 years ago: The last strip is always a bittersweet affair. There’s the endless shaping and dry-fitting unt … more →
Starting the football
wrote 2 years ago: There comes a point when it’s no longer possible to affix strips to the internal stem. Strippi … more →
Adding an accent strip
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wrote 2 years ago: Funny how posts on “stripping” garner the highest number of blog visits… At any ra … more →
Another canoe build
wrote 2 years ago: There’s something appealing about stripping — watching with growing excitement as an ele … more →
Sanding and the sealer coat
wrote 2 years ago: Sanding is one of those things where it’s difficult to know when to stop. After all, how smoot … more →
The football filled
wrote 2 years ago: canoe widow [kuh-noo wid-oh] -NOUN The partner of a canoe builder whose recollection of his/her … more →
Filling the football
wrote 2 years ago: Canoe building factoid #1: You spend half your time looking for that thing that you just had in your … more →
On stapleless construction
wrote 2 years ago: You might look at the picture below and say, “Whoa, dude, that canoe you’re building has … more →
On scarfing
wrote 2 years ago: As I mentioned earlier, I don’t have the facilities to deal with 16′ strips, so I have t … more →
Let's strip!
wrote 2 years ago: stripper [strip-er] -noun A small watercraft constructed of strips of wood, usually cedar. Th … more →
Making the strips
wrote 2 years ago: The most tedious part of the entire canoe building project has to be making the strips. If I had a l … more →
