Video Courses + Boat Plans | Cape Falcon Kayak

Video: Oar building, part 1

June 2020July 2023Leave a comment

As we get started again on the oar building class I’m going to repost the first few videos so the series is continuous in the feed. Making this class has been a lot more challenging than I thought. Aside from the boneheaded mistake of shooting for an entire afternoon with the mic off and...

Well, that’s a kick in the n**ts

June 2020September 2022Leave a comment

Well, that’s a kick in the n**ts. We filmed a big portion of the oar building class yesterday only to realize at the end of the day that the microphone wasn’t working. Sooooo, back to the store for another hundred dollars worth of Sitka, another 70 bucks and bronze hardware, and I’m building three...

The perfect board

June 2020September 2022Leave a comment

One of the worst things that you can have in any woodshop is a perfect board. Having bought it in a fit of lust it then sits for years in the corner stoically taunting you with its perfectly straight clear grain that is simply too perfect for any project you happen to be working...

Catching up on videos

April 2020September 2022Leave a comment

I’m very lucky to be able to make a living with these gadgets, but I’m seriously starting to miss life before video when a kayak build took a week instead of a month, and I got to see my students in person. Today we are re-shooting our float bags for skin-on-frame kayaks video, and...

Always filming…

March 2020September 2022Leave a comment

Always filming….today we made a tutorial showing how to put a drain plug in a skin on frame kayak. Drain plugs are something I’ve done in the past but not very often because I was on such a tight schedule to get six boats done in six days with six students. It’s also just...

Updates to the FREE Skin-on-Frame Kayak Prep Course

March 2020September 2022Leave a comment

As of today we have officially replaced (almost) all the videos in our FREE Skin-on-Frame Prep Course. With over seven hours of content, this covers materials, tool selection, sharpening, safety, wood selection, making a coaming, laying out and plunge-routing the gunwales, laminating curved deck beams, cutting rolling bevels – basically all of the super...

Gunwale layout and mortising

March 2020September 2022Leave a comment

Today we are re-filming the gunwale layout and mortising portion of our free kayak building prep course. My goal here as always is to try to save people from mistakes they don’t know they’re about to make: 1) Laying out the sheer of the gunwales opposite the natural curve of the board. 2) starting...

Updated videos on building steambent wooden kayak cockpit coamings

March 2020July 2023Leave a comment

We just uploaded seven brand new videos for how to steam bend skin on frame cockpit coamings to the FREE Skin-on-Frame Kayak Prep Course, available on our website. This series demystifies what is by far the most challenging part about making a skin on frame kayak!...

On YouTube: Choosing Wood for Skin on Frame Kayaks

March 2020September 2022Leave a comment

OK that was way harder than I thought it was going to be but I’m pretty proud of this one. Check out the latest video that we uploaded to the Cape Falcon Kayak YouTube channel titled: Choosing Wood For Skin on Frame Kayaks. (Embedded below, and also in the Free Skin on Frame Kayak...

Reshooting videos and reshooting again

March 2020September 2022Leave a comment

The only thing more painful than surrendering to the time and technical complexity that goes into making good instructional video is getting to the very end of a project and realizing that you need to start over… As we reshoot our entire skin on frame prep course, one of the hardest videos is: selecting...

The reality of teaching on video

March 2020September 2022Leave a comment

The reality of teaching online boat building courses in a partially natural light studio on a partly cloudy day: “Hey guys Brian Schulz here with Cape Falcon Kayak with an update to the rib shaping….seriously?! hey Liz does it look like we have another sun patch after that cloud? No? OK let’s bring up...

Building a new kayak cockpit coaming bending jig

February 2020September 2022Leave a comment

Nothing detracts from the joy of boat building like the work of running a small boat building business! The running joke here is that owning your own business gives you the freedom to work all the time. This year we’re sinking our teeth into replacing the entire Cape Falcon video library to reflect our...

On YouTube: Kayak vs canoe, which one should you build?

December 2018September 2022Leave a comment

New video up on the YouTube channel: Kayak vs Canoe: Which one should you build? (Or which one should you build first!) ...a quick overview of the pros and cons of both boats and builds. ...

Announcing the launch of our canoe plans and instructional videos

November 2018September 2022Leave a comment

Plans and instructional videos launched this week for our new skin-on-frame canoe building system, the 66. Originally envisioned as a lightweight double-paddle pack canoe, the 66 evolved into a complete canoe building system that gives you the freedom to change the width, the depth, the rocker, the sheer, and the hull shaping with easy...

What goes into creating a skin-on-frame canoe building video course

November 2018September 2022Leave a comment

What goes into creating a skin-on-frame canoe building video course and plan set? A reasonable quality video lighting and audio set up and an inordinate amount of time tinkering with aforementioned gear. A million takes of me saying the same thing over and over until it looks sort of professional. Editing those takes until...