Flat deck rock garden F1 kayak build, post 5. Adding stems and stringers. Again, great music on this one! Put the stems and stringers on in the normal way. Not much else to report today except for the fact that I made the decision to keep this kayak and rebuild it for the customer....
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Time lapse: Flat deck rock garden F1 kayak build, Post 4: Bending the ribs, tying the keel, and fitting the stems
Flat deck rock garden F1 kayak build, post 4, bending the ribs, tying the keel, and fitting the stems. Don’t miss the music on this one! Yesterdays bend went relatively smoothly but I’m still not thrilled about the wood I’m using in this boat. It would be fine for any other kayak, But to...
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Time lapse: Flat Deck Rock Garden F1 build, Post 3: Pegging the deck beams and prepping the ribs
Flat Deck Rock Garden F1 build, post 3. Pegging the deck beams and prepping the ribs. Check out post 1 for the design brief on this project. To finish the deck I peg the deck beams vertically through the tenons and also diagonally through the deck beams and into the gunwales. The rib material...
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Time lapse: Flat Deck Rock Garden F1 Kayak Build, Post 2: Building the Deck
Flat Deck Rock Garden F1 Kayak Build, post 2: building the deck. Check out the first post in this series for the design details on this project. Finally got moving on the build today. Because this kayak is getting covered with a heavy skin I’m using the best possible wood to increase the strength...
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Flat Deck Rock Gardening F1 kayak build: Day 1, Prep
Flat Deck Rock Gardening F1 kayak build, day 1: Planning and prep work. I’m doing something a little different this week and working on a commission for an avid coastal paddler. Normally Tom takes care of the custom boats and I focus on design work but I wanted to build this one personally to...
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Video: laminating deck beams
Well heck, I had just finished the prep on a set of gunwales for my next build when I caught them in a raking light and noticed a bad section of shake. Shake is where the wood separates internally along the grain from wind or falling stresses. Unlike normal cracks shake is often nearly...
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Updating and re-shooting the skinning portion of the kayak building course
This week we are updating and re-shooting the skinning portion of our skin on frame kayak building course, which gets rid of the very last videos that we shot before making major upgrades to our studio lighting, audio equipment, and presentation style a few years ago. This gives me a much needed opportunity to...
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Frame modifications on the new LPB
I’ve developed this terrible habit lately of adding a whole bunch of frame modifications for accessories that I end up not using. Seems like it takes just long enough for me to glue things on to decide that something was a stupid idea and I should do it differently! This latest LPB frame features...
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Refreshing my Greenland Paddles
I really like the aging process of a plain red cedar Greenland paddle. It starts out beautiful and accumulates scars from various adventures, getting sanded and oiled every few years, ultimately ending up on the front deck as a spare whenever I get around to making a new one. I like having my old...
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Video: Just a few nice steam bending clips
Just a few nice steam bending clips from the kayak I’m working on right now. As usual excellent quality bending oak from Zena Forest Products makes me look like I almost know what I’m doing....
Video: Simple V lashings
These simple V lashings are a common attachment method on many different traditional Arctic kayaks. The configuration resists movement on all axis and the compression creates a super tight lashing that can still move under extreme forces. This is important because even though the flex of the skin boat is barely perceptible on the...
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Video: Simple tasks done efficiently. Breaking the edges and beveling the ends of kayak ribs
More simple tasks done efficiently. Breaking the edges and beveling the ends of the white oak ribs for the small size LPB I’m working on. It’s weird how some things just stick around. I can’t be absolutely sure of this but I think I’ve had this jig almost since the beginning which would mean that...
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Video: Chopping tenons
Same thing we do every day Pinky, try to take over the world… Chopping tenons for the new 21.5” wide LPB kayak. Pretty stoked to finally be adding this size to the lineup....
Finished the new 22 1/2” size LPB frame
Finished the new 22 1/2” size LPB frame a couple days ago. It was nice to get back to basics and just build one of my kayaks with zero modifications. You can really see from the stern view how this kayak differs from most normal sea kayaks. The dramatically Swedeform shape is an inch...
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Video: Bending in the ribs for the LPB kayak (Time lapse)
Bending in the ribs for the LPB kayak. This isn’t my best time lapse work, but the music is kind of cool. Liz filmed me bending so now we finally have a specific steam bending video for each one of our kayaks in the building course!...