Cedar Canvas Canoe Build
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- If nothing else, I'm ambitious enough to try to build a canoe from scratch. This is a broad overview of how I built a cedar canvas canoe in the style of The Atkinson Traveller, a design by Rollin Thurlow and Jerry Stelmok. They have co-written the book "The Wood and Canvas Canoe" which is the go-to book for anyone interested in learning more or building the actual canoe. The book is interesting enough to read for the content alone.
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Nice work! Super cool, and thanks for sharing!
👌Nice👍 Next Project! Ottertail Paddle! It's a must! Tipp for paddling, get on your Knees. It is mutch stabel. Greetings from Switzerland
Before I started the canoe I had the blanks glued up for the paddles, including an ottertail! (They are waiting now for my motivation to finish) I also agree that on the knees is better but 35 years as a carpenter has taken its toll on them. Best wishes!
Thanks for documenting this, this is one of those dream projects for me, one of the very best videos I’ve seen on building a wood canvas canoe. Great job on the finished boat as well, looks beautiful
Hey Chuck, just found your channel as I was lurking around the tube. Good to see the canoe but I am concerned about that small hammer.😛
I know but I can keep it under control. Also not a milled face 😂.
Very neat. Can the mold/frame you made be re-used?
@@caseyd6527 thanks for the comment. Yes, this method of using a form was developed by the early canoe manufacturers when they were looking for a way to ‘mass produce’ the original hand made canoes.
Great project Martin! Thanks for posting this.
Thanks for the comment. It's a niche project for sure so I hope you got something out of it. Planning to build one?
Super cool overview. I’ve always wanted to do that project. For me building the form seems to be the biggest barrier.
Now that you’ve done it do you think you would have done it at a school/shop that has the form?
It depends on your goal at the end. I wanted the whole experience so the form was part of that but if you are going to crank out the canoes, a form is essential. I read so many books about canoes prior to starting the project about how the shape affects the use that I got obsessed about everything. I would also suspect that for me to find a form to borrow or rent would be impossible (I don't live in Muskoka or Maine 😄). I ended up putting the form on Kijiji which I thought was a long-shot but just a few days later someone about 300km away was on my doorstep with cash in hand. Also where would I store a form?? Honestly I feel like the form is no harder than the canoe itself, you constantly consider your moves based on what the process hands you. Building a canvas canoe as a one-off project is daunting for sure but I always look around at other people doing stuff I want to do and think "Why couldn't I do that?" If you are comfortable building a canoe, you can build a form.
Thanks for uploading, I watched the whole thing. One question, when you took the canoe off the form, was there more planking that needed to be added before you could put the outwales on? At 16:55, it looks like ribs are sticking out beyond, did they just get cut down? And is the long piece that connects the ribs together (as seen at the same timestamp) the inwales or was that a temporary piece? Beautiful canoe.
If memory serves me correctly...I machined a rabbet so that the outwale would overlap the planking (@ 19:21). I'm pretty sure that there was still some planking to go on but only to enough to go inside that rabbet. I didn't put it on until I had the rabbet cut so that I knew exactly the depth of the planking. Once the outwales went on I trimmed the ribs flush with a japanese saw. The inwale you see there is also permanent. Thank you for the positive comments!
New Sait Project !? 🤣🤣
Let's see if that fits into the curriculum...nope! 😂