This is the log that will become my canoe. The first step in building the canoe is turning a cedar log into planks. The final strips will be 1 inch high by 3/16″ thick. Those strips will be ripped out of planks 1″ thick which will be cut out of the log on the […]
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The Inception of the Canoe Project
Since I was a teenager I’ve wanted to build a cedar strip canoe. When I was in boy scouts one of my Scoutmasters had built one and it was by far the nicest canoe I’d seen. In my twenties I bought a copy of Ted Moore’s Canoecraft and read it through and through many times. […]