| This blog is written by Woodcanuck | 17 entries so far |
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Architecture #2: The boathouse, wooden wheels and giant grinding wheels
This past weekend, I was giving my nephew a tour of the old boathouse at my parents’ cottag...
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Workshop #4: Woodworking with kids.
I’ve noticed lately a few discussions about woodworking with kids. Lots of discussions about safe...
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Architecture #1: Interesting barn trusses
A couple of years ago, the family took a roadtrip out to the east coast. I stumbled across these...
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Marble tower #2: What I've done so far
I wanted to make the marble tower good and solid, so I’m making it primarily out of ash. T...
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Marble tower #1: Working from a set of plans
This is one of those well intentioned projects that started and got put on hold for many varied r...
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Workshop #3: Finally posting my workshop
http://lumberjocks.com/Woodcanuck/workshop Finally sucked it up and just took some pictures of...
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Canoe #8: Varnishing and Maiden Voyage!!!
With all of the assembly in place we were down to getting the final finish on it. Just as it i...
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Canoe #7: Final assembly
With the fiberglassing complete, we finally get to add some of the detail work. First up, we h...
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Canoe #6: Fiberglassing the interior
One thing I forgot to mention was what we did to seal up any holes/gaps in the hull before we did...
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Balancing time vs design (or buy junk vs make nice stuff)
I just got a call from my wife. “We’re overflowing with books in the office, can you...
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Canoe #5: Sanding and fiberglassing
With the majority of the construction complete, we move on to doing some of the finishing on the ...
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Canoe #4: Finish up the hull
I’ve been negligent in wrapping this up….but here’s the next stage, finishing u...
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Workshop #2: The Ridgid R4511 is built!
It took probably 4 hours total to unpack and get it all put together, but definitely worth the ef...
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Workshop #1: New Ridgid R4511 table saw
Thanks to some advice on the forums as well as some great reviews and piles of other useful stuff...
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Canoe #3: More stripping!
Now that we’ve got the sides of the hull planked, we close in the bottom of the hull. The ...
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Canoe #2: First steps
Let’s start with what we’re building. This is a 16′ Peterborough canoe built from cedar strips e...
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Canoe #1: Introduction
Even though this project was done a few years ago, it has been the biggest project I’ve worked on...
