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Feb 26, 2010 In 2005 I toyed with the idea of making skin-on-frame (SOF) boats. My objective was to make them inexpensive and light but durable and easy to maintain. I used wood and other materials that I was able to scrounge. The only thing that I had to buy was the brass screws, glue, spar...

After doing the Runnung deer wall clock, I was looking through my patterns and came up with one that I thought would make a nice wall clock. Hope you all like it when I'm done.

Here is another canoe. Once again it is done with plans from Building A Strip Canoe, by Gil Gilpatrick. This is the Wabnaki model, and is 16' long. It's three feet wide in the center, 12" deep, and weighs around 65 pounds. If you would like more information and a whole bunch of pictures, I did a...

I built this canoe over a 3 year period while we lived in the desert of Southwest Texas. It was inspiration to get out of the place we were living and to the Pacific Northwest where I could use the thing. At the time, Redwood was readily available at Home Depot in 1×6 stock. It was the best...

Yikes, it has been a looooong time since I last posted here. Where does the time fly? Anyhow, here it is, a new project just completed. A bit of background on why I decided to do this. I took a power carving class from my local wood working guild and was wondering what I could do to use this...

This is my third canoe. I used western red cedar strips 1/4×3/4 bent around forms on a strongback, edge glued and held together by statples until dry, then pulled the staples, sanded, sheathed it with polyester fiberglass, added the seats, gunnels and presto - a canoe is born. I built this in...

I made this skin on frame canoe over the summer. Dimensions 12'6" long 26" wide at center 24lbs. Frame is 1/2" marine grade ply. The rub strips are oak, thwarts are padauk, everything else including the paddle I made is red cedar. Ballistic Nylon is the cover and a two part urethane water...

This is a 13 foot Wee Lassie 2 made from northern white cedar, redwood, aspen and mahogany. I really love the feature strip in this canoe. It is so stinking easy to make and the effect is well worth the 1.5 hours to make it.

The walking staff was mostly a matter of bending the top to a comfortable positon and putting a butt cap on the bottom . It was then finished with a spar varnish . The two paddles were made for canoeing with the Boy Scouts . They were laminated up from some scraps of interesting wood friends...

I started this late in 2014 and finished around the summer of 2015. Had I known about lumberjocks back then, I may have blogged the build to chronicle the progress and the obstacles I encountered and how I worked around them, and the some of the tricks I came up with to make it go a little...

This is a small basswood canoe paddle that I carved for my son to celebrate his first Boy Scout Summer Camp. The finish is Deft Sanding Sealer and multiple coats of Deft Clear Gloss Lacquer that was wet sanded between coats and finished with wax. I posted a small blog on the process of makinng...

A retirement gift for a man I worked with for the past 10 years. I am forever grateful for his leadership, perspectives and guidance over those years. "We begin to enjoy ourselves, to rejoice in the fluid rhythm of the canoes, to feel the ecstasy of the wild, free, vigourous life that seems all...

My father does not have access to the internet so I am posting some of his work he would like to sell. If it generates any intrest I can get prices from him. Also could some of the LJ's here tell me what might be a fair price for these and anyhwere else I might get some intrest. I should be able...

I build this strip canon 2 years ago If you'd like to know the details about how I build it: I have a detailed blog about it here: http://rogerxue-eim.blogspot.com/2015/03/wee-two-wooden-strip-canoe.html

I built this Pirogue or "Cajun Canoe" from plans that I purchased from "Uncle John's" on the WWW. It's made from 2 sheets of 1/4" marine grade plywood, cyprus framing, pine gunnels & keel, lots of epoxy & some mixed up left over laytex paint. I modified these plans extensively & had a load of...

I made this canoe in my spare time over the space of two years. I also made the paddle, but not the hat, which I bought from the Pirates of the Caribbean in Disneyland in Paris. When I tried it out in the sea the seats were too high and the canoe wasn't very stable. After some adjustments, we...

This canoe was a father/son project to celebrate Chris' graduation. It is a solo camping canoe specifically designed and built for use in the Minnesota Boundary Waters Canoe Area which borders with Canada. Lots of people say "how could you even think of getting it wet!?". But these canoes are...

1 sheet of 1/4 " luan plywood , some spruce or p t pine 1×2s some fiberglass tape and some epoxy. i have buillt several of these for our grandkids. they enjoy paddling their own canoes on river trips. good little canoe for mellow rivers or small lakes.first plywood canoe i built was from the...

This is my 16' Peterborough Cedar Strip Fiberglass/Epoxy canoe. I built this over a few months back in 2004. Since this is the biggest project I've tackled, I thought it would be a good one to start with. I'm in the process of fully documenting the project from start to finish on my blog if...