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- Tue Jun 15, 2010 2:10 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: My Acorn Dinghy launched
- Replies: 11
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- Tue Jun 15, 2010 2:05 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: OLd Canoe Repair
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8396
Do not take the glass off the inside until you lay up new glass on the outside. You run the risk of the whole thing coming apart if you take the glass off both sides without glass on one side of the canoe to hold it together. If the glass came off that easy, then it was probably best that you remove...
- Tue Jun 15, 2010 2:01 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: thwart / scarf joint
- Replies: 6
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If you have not made your thwart yet, flare out the ends nice and wide so the holes are drilled through each piece of the scarf joint, but not through the joint itself. You should be able to stagger the holes so they go through solid wood. This will keep that joint from coming apart. I normally stag...
- Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:02 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: OLd Canoe Repair
- Replies: 17
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You paid about $200 too much in my opinion, for what it's worth. For $220 you could have purchased the lumber for the canoe and built your own. Everything else you are going to spend wether it is to refurbish or build new. You can get canoe plans out of Gilpatrick's book and about $40 in plywood for...
- Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:45 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Expedition Sport Kayak in Progress
- Replies: 21
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- Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:05 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: OLd Canoe Repair
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8396
In well ventilated area, or outside, use some heat to see if you can soften the fiberglass/resin on the exterior and remove as much as you can by just pulling it off. Then, I would take a random orbit sander with about 40 grit paper and basically try and sand off all the old fiberglass and resin unt...
- Tue Jun 01, 2010 3:37 pm
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Redwood gunwales
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6245
- Fri May 28, 2010 9:53 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Redwood gunwales
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6245
- Thu May 27, 2010 10:18 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Redwood gunwales
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6245
- Tue May 25, 2010 8:25 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Extreme Veneering
- Replies: 9
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- Mon May 24, 2010 8:24 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Extreme Veneering
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6624
Inside the cockpit, it looks like there are strips of wood. Did you build the entire hull with woodstrips the traditional way, them come back with the veneer over the top of the strips? Unless it is a trade secret, tell us the steps in making the hull. I assume you fiberglassed over the veneer? How ...
- Tue May 18, 2010 9:04 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Eastern Cedar, Chainsaw to Paddle in 4 months....
- Replies: 9
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You can store your wool sweaters in it in the winter time? Just goes to show you that you can build a canoe out of about any type of lumber. That is a really cool looking canoe. It will come alive when you put epoxy on that hull! I have built a few canoes from rough sawn lumber. It is really cool to...
- Tue May 18, 2010 8:53 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: How many strips from a board?
- Replies: 3
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- Mon May 17, 2010 9:47 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Square Stern Canoe fishished and launched
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2271
Square Stern Canoe fishished and launched
Well, I succesfully launched my 15' square stern version of the 20' White Guide canoe out of Gilpatricks book. I could not be happier with it's performance on the water. Glides along with the electric trolling motor, paddles really nice, super stable and quite roomy. Also, I epoxied cleats on the hu...
- Tue May 11, 2010 9:39 am
- Forum: Builders' Forum
- Topic: Redwood Prospector finished
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19962
I love the idea of building a canoe out of reclaimed lumber. I recently finsihed a square stern version of the 20' White Guide and did not buy any lumber for the canoe, or at least used lumber that was purchased over 10 years ago. I ended up with about 10 different kinds of wood in the canoe, and ev...