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...
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On YouTube: Scarf Joints for SOF Boatbuilding
Reposting this as a video rather than photos because I like it better this way. Check out the whole video embedded below or on the YouTube channel. Enjoy....
Gunwale layout and mortising
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...
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Video: Tiny house hot water system tour
Sound on! Today’s video is actually a cross-post from our other Instagram @actuallytiny where we chronicled the construction of our tiny house with the same fervent intensity that we seem to do everything. The house itself is my effort to make the most truly livable, energy-efficient, tiny space possible based on 20 years of...
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Friends, I wanted to share this fundraiser
Friends, I wanted to share this fundraiser I started to help a friend who is homeless. Thomas is 60 years old and used to be a welder before health issues ended his ability to work. Over time debt took his house and now he lives in a tent. Right now I’m trying to raise...
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On YouTube: Experimental Skin-on-Frame River Touring Kayak, in Detail
To celebrate the super detailed video we just put up on our YouTube channel talking about the new skin on frame river kayak design I thought I would throw up some GoPro footage I took from the test paddle that isn’t quite good enough for YouTube. Here’s what those peaceful whitewater videos actually look...
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Updated videos on building steambent wooden kayak cockpit coamings
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!...
Gus’s hoop house made from leftover kayak ribs
In addition to boat building my other big passion is sustainable agriculture. Props to Gus here for combining the two and using the leftover wood from his kayak build as a frame to cover his seedlings in the early season. Much nicer than mine which I just made of hoops of bailing wire!...
On YouTube: Choosing Wood for Skin on Frame Kayaks
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...
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Reshooting videos and reshooting again
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...
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Timelapse: Nailing off cockpit coamings
Thanks to outsourcing, I am mostly free from mass producing kayak cockpit coamings these days. (I’m also mostly free from making money on them, but that’s just fine with me.) Reshooting our cockpit coaming instructional videos this week necessitated the construction of a small batch. Here Liz and I tag team nailing on the...
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The reality of teaching on video
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...
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On YouTube: Whitewater testing the river kayak prototype
Turn the sound on! Here’s a short clip from the video we just uploaded to YouTube showing the latest skin on frame river touring prototype in class I to III whitewater. (Full video below!) I’ll be making a video later this week where I talk about the design and detail and the next steps...
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Lisa’s East Greenland kayak build
I love the elegance of this photo shared by Lisa, a student of mine who built an F1 in 2018 and is now working her way through ALL of the Cape Falcon designs. We offer a $75 discount on our plans/video package for anyone who is willing to post a blog of their build...
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Video: Running bending oak through the 1940s Parks planer
When I first started buying bending Oak from Ben Deumling of Zena Forest Products there was no amount of money I could pay him to run this tough wet wood through his planer. The issue is that green white oak is just dripping with tannic acid which is pretty brutal on tools that would...
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