Recent content by lyle

3/4" practical board Free You pick up. Make donation to Canoe Tripping west side of WI. boxfactory1@gmail.com

HI From St, Croix not the Island. Got plans and book from Bear mountain and other books 20+ years back, at 78 now looked like a good time to start building. help help I am lost. About 3 blocks east of St Croix.

Brain I am new to this blog thing, clicked on liked but looks like I did unlike me bad Lyle

Just got back in from shop for coffee, had a look as stations should have seen this before, took my drill with 1" Bosch dare devil bit drilling holes so edge of hole is 2" from edge of form then saber saw to cut from hole to hole then skip to next 2 holes doing this only where in videos, and...

I forgot 150 feet of bungee cord is $50 can't get many clamps for that. Lyle

That's my thinking also + I plan to use bungee cord have to check but thinking 3/16 or 1/4 inch will tie them to a rail I put on the sides of strong back up over bead edge of strip down to rail pull a bit and tie. Strip will be pulled down and into edge of station, and will just slip over bead...

Has anyone built a canoe with cove down? Looks to me when you push strips sideways there would be less chance of braking the edge of cove off. lyle

First time building a canoe, did do some striping for tear drop trailers, 15 years back no planks to bend like a canoe has. Cut them on a table saw with a blade setup of 4 thin kerf blades 7 1/4 dia. with spacer for each blade 4 inches in dia. with bolts holding everything, can only cut...

building a freedom 17 strong back and stations are done. Have been looking for northern white cedar, Found a bunch of it, Its 1 1/16" thick 5 1/2" wide. Can I use 1" wide strips on the flatter sides of the canoe then I can plane boards to 3/4" for the curved part maybe go back to 1" on the...

you know max width is 102 inches, that's to rims the side wall can be over, mirrors can be over.