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It's not just you with the band saw, regardless of how easy it sounds, you have to have a really well setup bandsaw and really know how to use to get decent strips .... and even with my limited experience I think it would be really slow going. If you decide to try the skilsaw, I recommend you...

Nice start from a fellow Ontarian. Where did you source your lumber, I am always on the look out for new suppliers

When you glass (or carbon, kevlar, etc.) a paddle, there are a couple things to consider. There is the weave finish and how much epoxy is used to bury the weave .... the consensus here, so far, more or less suggests that the paddle surface needs to be smooth, in fact the smoother the better...

Yup ... marveling that you made it and it floats, never gets old. Great job

When finishing a paddle, I like to leave the handle with just the oil finish. After the initial coat, I like to wet sand subsequent coats with 320 (apply oil and then sand using the oil), then 400 on any other coats. This will give a nice silky finish on the handle, that your hand will be able...

Cherry is one of my favourites

Have the MEC double walled steel mugs, which has been my go to for a long time. Thinking of swapping to my Yeti 20 oz as I like to laze a bit and enjoy the camp first thing in the morning.

My first cedar (WRC) came from a specialty supplier near me, it was beautiful, clear and quite expensive, even then that was $140 ... now I go to a very small yard up north of me, last canoe used $85 worth of perfect white cedar. There seems to be a lot of smaller mills today, the issue is...

"I don't want to spend the money on expensive or hard-to-find cedar/ash/mahogany/brass/copper/canvas/filler/whatever." One of the biggest challenges I faced when I first decided to build a canoe, was sourcing materials, especially wood. Finding good places to get those materials at a reasonable...

Very nicely done

I doubt he was making that shot ... a lot of the designs he hosted/sold were asymmetrical hulls

Perfect description, Use ours for storing bulk camp food and dried herbs.

I usually take a Double blade and a light bent shaft .... the bent shaft as a backup and for any short runs requiring greater finesse, the double to cover ground and handle bad weather

I did change a few things on this build, reduced the width of the ash spine from 1/8" to 3/32", to offset moving from 1 1/8" shaft diameters to 1 1/4". A bonus of going to the larger shaft was that I could use my router and a new 5/8" radius bit to round the shafts I stopped the rounding just...

Make up a pair of striped blanks Make up some thin slats and slice the blanks and number the pieces Flip every other piece and add the cross piece Epoxy them all together, using tinted epoxy (dark cedar dust) Cleanup the excess epoxy, to make the piece reasonably flat. Then setup...

Gamma, The idea that thinner strips aren't going to be as strong, isn't exactly due to the wood strength, that is actually is a minor component. You are creating a composite structure when you glass both sides of the wood. The woods job is to hold the glass layers in position, not provide any...

Need to be a little careful here, going to 1/8" strips will impact the strength of the composite formed and there are already several steps being taken with thinners strips and lighter glass. Also ... putting the layer on the inside isn't about stiffness, it is about strength/impact resistance...

I totally agree that epoxy weighs a lot and contributes a lot of weight ... however ... a lot of the epoxy in that 2 gallons ended up in the grunge cup. On my last Freedom Solo 16'3" with 6 oz E glass... the external glass/epoxy was 6 pounds and the internal was 5.5 pounds, about half of what...

Welcome to the group, I will let SG try and seduce to the dark side of building your own, he can be our ambassador for that. If you want a load capacity of 350 pounds and you are around 180 pounds, that is 170 pounds of gear .... sort of defeats the purpose of a lighter canoe. The reason I...

At camp last fall I decided I wanted to try a little longer shaft on my twin paddle ..... guess I must talk in my sleep because I had 3 requests that trip for paddles. I had also promised a friend from Louisiana I would try and make him a paddle to scull his boat in the bayou for fishing. So it...