We spent the morning shooting video updates to the finishing section for our Free Greenland Paddle Building Course.
I went into a lot of detail about the pros and cons of various finish strategies including updated instructions for applying Rubio Monocoat, and also a more traditional burnishing technique using pure tung oil that was recommended to me by a paddle builder from New Zealand. We’ll be uploading the new video to the course later today.
People often ask me why I don’t write a book about skin-on-frame building, and honestly I wish I could because writing is MUCH easier for me than video. The problem with a book though is that it’s a snapshot of knowledge which is kind of the opposite of the whole Cape Falcon Kayak philosophy, which is the EVOLUTION of knowledge.
Video teaching is so much harder than I ever could’ve imagined, but it does let me rapidly incorporate new ideas to the process. Every time I come up with a better way to do things or I get a really good idea from a student I can immediately add it to the updates section of the course and then when enough of these updates accumulate I will re-shoot various videos. I like to think of it as sort of a digital village where a lot of the design and process evolution that used to happen linearly over time, now happens laterally over space.
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