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I need to shelve this project for a few months, and catch up on some criticals. I hope to get back to boat mid Winter, finish by Spring. Thanks to all who've followed along.

I’m new to canoes, but not to water. I grew up on the Wabash river in Indiana, the Penobscot Bay in Maine. My dad grew up in a recent immigrant, multi-generational, independent professional fisherman house, and fish were a way he knew how to feed his family on a grad student salary. We were...

I am going to make one more post on steam bending here, with the sum total of my education and (limited) experience, so it can all be in one place. Not all of it is relevant, I don’t promise any of it is right, but it’s stood me in good stead and should get you started. Much of it might be...

Gentry provided for a plywood stem. His shape is attractive and traditional in form, but plywood. According to Glen L Witt, on edge plane, plywood is only half as strong as solid wood. To my eye the stem’s extra width plywood plank looks a little out of proportion to the solid wood keelson...

Now I am finally where I thought I was when I began posting this thread: shaping the stem. Gentry provided a stem pattern of course, but he also seemed to allow for alteration. His instructions say the top of the stem should be set 27in ahead of Frame1, and 27in above the Strongback. He says...

I know this is an old thread but I'd like to make a comment on the router rotation direction. First read I thought the woodworker friend advised you contrary to my experience, second read I think he said it correct, each read I'd say the operating principal was described wrong. Could lead to...

My PERSONAL opinion is stripper built is best overall all-around way to build a boat, all factors included and balanced. Super light, super stiff, very durable and quite strong, painstaking and up there in time consuming but beginners can pull it off. And it looks GORGEOUS. And it seems Bead...

I really like the way you finished this boat. The White Cedar has a great color, and with the horizontal layout of all the strips and zero accent strips, it has a mellow, measured appearance I really enjoy. Stacking the extra strips at the stems the same way continues that smooth, steady...

Thanks folks. With respect to practice, that is somewhat what this particular build would be. Rehearsal for carving carvel planking, but on softer wood and where gaps aren't as crucial. Guessing station spacing is more important with square edged strips as well. The bead and cove assists in...

Wow! I'm a Jeep fan: my daily driver is an '86 rust and dent free all original CJ7. But I think I'd make your trade. Number of years back I was in process of buying an undyed, 100% beaver cowboy hat. A lady I was buying band materials from suggested checking thrift stores. I said: "Hardly...

In a 7yro thread on Jimmy Clamps to avoid staples on Stripper builds, Jim Dodd mentioned he is a big fan of Bead and Cove joints. I thought anyone who had any type of education in Stripper building used them, that there was no other viable option for a reasonable individual. However, the...

Thrift stores in Maine sell boats? I gotta get to Maine.

The holes are what I was thinking of not dents and maybe I was thinking of screw holes because I know I was thinking of toothpicks to fill them. Staples holes would be hard to see close up even left alone. Bead and cove fan? Is there any other vaguely rational way to do it? I do recall...

Thank you for the reply to clear things up, Mark. I am aware of the purpose of staples: holding strips against form and glue line until glue bonds. I intend to avoid their use because in my personal opinion: the finest quality artwork shows no evidence of tool marks. A finely concealed tool...

Super psyched to see these. Sounds like staples are an issue with more passionate debate than I realized? Not sure what toes I might be stepping on when I say I reject the concept of them, figuring out a way to avoid them has been a wrench in the works for planning a cedar stripper build in...

After drying in place for 24hrs, third (middle) frame was not compressed at all, and first (fore) frame was half an inch narrower than specs. I slid gunnels back in the tube overnight. Removed battens, re-trued frames to level and straight, reinstalled gunnels this morning. I reduced the stem...

If anything else, I’d like to contribute these 1mm cotton cords to the world of SoF boat building methods. Pretty much everybody always uses zip ties. One time use pieces of plastic that are tricky to use, have sharp corners that dent the wood we’re working with, and did I mention one time...

Yeah, Gamma, good research on the moisture levels coming and going in the wood. With steaming though, it’s not water inside the wood, its the heat softening the Lignin glue of the tree, and letting the fibers of wood slide alongside one another. But yeah I’ve heard soaking them pre-steam helps...

Thank you! For all four of those. That might be the best way. I'll have a clearer view of the part and can watch it doesn't twist as I add the additional bend. I'll still probably have to build the form (to this step I added using that arced form the gunnels were resting on in early picture...

Well it is not working. I am trying to figure out stem shape and and forward quarter bilge turn and there is a whole discussion I wanted to make on this but my mind can't focus on that at the moment. I set gunnels on frames and lashed PVC pipes to them as well, slid things around to see where...