The only space available at the center sufficient to build a canoe was in the shop's large kitchen, which we shared with the wood carvers' special interest group. The very large dream shop has just about any tool a woodworker would ever need or want. The group consisted of seven students, in addition to myself. Everyone was a retiree.
We got a partial kit from The Newfound Woodworks consisting of the bead and coved strips, fiberglass, epoxy, and varnish. I did teach making bead and cove strips as part of the course, and we make b/c strips for the accent stripes. All of the other parts of the canoe were made by the students in the center's shop. The canoe is a 16-foot Bob's Special, stripped stapless in red and white cedar with accents of Peruvian walnut. The seats and gunwales are ash, and the seat hangers and yoke are curly maple.
The decks were overlaid with a field of African bubinga veneer containing pictures done in marquetry. The forward deck is a picture of an American Indian as seen on the old buffalo nickel. The aft deck is a bald eagle. Each picture is made up of over 125 individual tiny pieces of various colored and species of thin wood veneer.
Additional detailed pictures can be seen at http://s15.photobucket.com/user/jmichne ... WA%20Canoe. There are too many construction pictures to post here, but I will upload them to Photobucket if anyone is interested.
