Thestripper

All of mine have varnished blades and shafts and oiled hand grips. Jim

I SLIGHTLY bevel the edges, of the forms, where the strip contacts the form. This eliminates an unsightly dent on the inside, that...

I too have built a couple Kites. The forms didn’t need any special bevel, only the stem pieces. I also painted my Kite, after initially...

Agree, taking the edge off is a good idea, not a full bevel, but easing the edge makes it harder to dent the inside of the strip.

I just looked and saw this in the Osprey builders notes. Winters explanation is much better than mine with regard to station spacing...

Hi Spuvak. I had this exact same question when I was building the Kite. In my thinking, fairing the stations should only be necessary...

I have built a number of canoes from plans and with the Kite I found that if you have properly made and set up the forms, there will be...

Hi everyone - I've recently begun work building - you guessed it - a Kite. The strongback is assembled, stations are in place and...

Some have epoxied small blocks to this type of gunnel to give extra width at the thwart and seat points - I’ve done this for bare wood...

I’ve had good results using a cedar “uniwale” as stripperguy described, but with 8 oz carbon fiber sleeve. Probably not as light as a...

Yeah who knows. I'll post it here if it happens before then. Thanks for the kind remark.

Truly remarkable scenery in the Northern reaches. Another million years, the plates will be connected again..?

I decided to get a solo canoe cover for traveling and was wondering what you've been using. The two covers that I'm considering are the...

I'm off to the hardware store. Why didn't I think of that?

I do like gunwale stops for that reason but I've found that the Yakima gunnel stops do abrade and rub off on wood gunwales. But similar...