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Wow, that's a super tight canvas stretching job! And, a huge number of staples at the sheer and stem! I'll be curious to see how they finish the gunwales. I'm guessing they are prospector style canoes; lots of volume for paddlers and gear.

After about an 85% restoration and sharpening, the #4 is taking translucent cuts on red oak. Leaves behind an exceptionally glass-smooth surface; hence the name 'smoothing plane'. Not bad for a $35 investment.

You read my mind!

I've also got a #3 Type 11 coming from a collector in Ohio. I've been curious for a while about the difference between #3 and #4 as it seems people use them interchangeably. I think I may have stumbled onto a new hobby (obsession) just like the wood canoes! For those who have a similar...

We (or at least, I do) talk a bit about working with wood. Since my focus is on wood/canvas canoes I enjoy using and owning the tools necessary to restore and build, with an emphasis on hand tool work. I just acquired this new-to-me tool: It's a circa 1912 Stanley #4, Type 11 bench plane. It...

Hi Bob, I used Titebond III. Plenty of 'open' time to allow for adjustments and clamping. It's a waterproof glue. I bought Gflex epoxy but never used it as I have no experience with epoxies!

Yes! I was just thinking of you the other day and wondering if the Litelift restoration was underway. Do you have a method in mind for the rib tip replacements? I made a jig for my portable table saw to taper cut the ends of many replacements. I had to make about 40 for my Bobs Special...

When tripping I typically trim the canoe with my main pack, and a smaller pack which holds my food bag, and daily essentials- this pack is carried along with the canoe on double trip carries. The main bag goes as far forward as possible, the small bag in front of the center thwart where I can...

It's my understanding that traditional spar varnish provides a finish that does not harden to the point of being brittle unlike urethane finishes, thereby providing a somewhat elastic protection for wood parts that expand and contract with changes in temperature and humidity.

Here's a little progress I did yesterday in a fit of boredom. Too cold in my barn shop for any real sustained effort, but I brought the canoe down from the rack where the canvas filler has been curing since late October. The excess canvas at was trimmed off using a clever cutting tool which...

Well, there ya go... one more reason to paddle only wood/canvas canoes! :cool:

Apparently I misunderstood your intent. I was not lobbying or advocating for paid advertisers.

I participate in a bicycling forum, https://forums.thepaceline.net/forumdisplay.php?f=3 Vendors are listed there on a header group, with ‘clickable’ icons. Viewers are taken directly to that vendors website. I presume the vendors pay a fee to be present on the forum opening page, and they...

Thanks for your compliment! Don't forget, it's the quarter sawn Sycamore that exhibits that figure when you cut across the medullary rays. I don't have any flat sawn Sycamore to compare the figure with, so I don't know how that would look. With regard to the Osage... in the piece that I...

Here's a little progress. Unfortunately, I can't spend much time out in the barn; between the cold and caring for my currently unwell wife, I don't get much done in any one session. The woodworking is complete, and now... a first coat of 50/50 varnish/thinner to seal the grain. The grips will...

Yes, me too... good to see you back to shop projects. It was your example that led me to embrace this pursuit of wood canvas canoes and their use out in the woods.

The Osage Orange is looking intriguing. Not wide enough for a single board paddle and besides, there's very little straight grain. When splitting to make it manageable for the bandsaw it curved significantly as shown here. However, that curved grain will match the curve of a paddle blade...

Yes, I've already committed to a beavertail blade on that one. I've only made one other beavertail- the cherry one shown in this picture: The white blade pattern in the same picture is one I contemplated using. It's a shameless copy of a Turtle Paddleworks blade I once had, though I...

A little paddle progress: Yesterday I salvaged a piece of Osage Orange, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maclura_pomifera from a downed roadside tree. My brother thought it might make interesting canoe gunwales from the remaining 18' log off the road, but I thought I might experiment first by...

Some of my previous grips. The quarter sawn Sycamore paddle on the right has a particularly comfortable grip for me. I guess it falls somewhere in between the two featured in your last photo.