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100% cherry canoe.. Not an easy task to build. Common canoes are built using cedar wood because of its bending quality’s.
The canoe your looking at in the picture has been built using cherry lumber.
We had to drill each tack hole to keep the cherry from splitting ..
I think this canoe has about 380 very small brass tacks..I also had to steam the canoe planking for bending.
This is the only cherry canoe that I have built..
I have a Vision of building another one in the future.
On my next cherry canoe i am thinking about having my uncle mill out some brass seats and thwarts for the inside of the canoe…
Hope you my little canoe.
This canoe is the only one of its kind in the world..
60” long 10” beam
1/4 scale
-- Ralphie Maine
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rivergirl
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#1 posted 799 days ago
WOW!
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jbschutz
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#2 posted 799 days ago
I looks beautiful…..what is the length and beam?
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Spoontaneous
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#3 posted 799 days ago
Aw, c’mon. How about some more photos? That is one pretty canoe and I would love to see some of the details. Very nice!!!
-- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story)
paplou
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#4 posted 799 days ago
Wonderful work and a lot of it. Hope you have a little butt to set in it.
-- PAPLOU
saddletramp
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#5 posted 799 days ago
Hey Littlebear, heck of a job. You just gotta love cherry.
-- ♫♪♪♫♫ Saddletramp, saddletramp, I'm as free as the breeze and I ride where I please, saddletramp ♪♪♪♫♪ ...... Bob W....NW Michigan (Traverse City area)
rsladdwoodworks
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#6 posted 799 days ago
that is nice are you going to build an full size one it mite be easier to do
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Mesquiteman99
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#7 posted 799 days ago
That’s a real piece of art. I have friends who have made the Cedar canoes but I’m not there yet. It’s on my wood bucket list.
-- Mesquiteman99
moment
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#8 posted 798 days ago
I thought your Cherry/Cedar canoe was really nice , but this one is exceptional . I have been watching you build this on your Shop Cam , and it’s very interesting watching your progress . Had no idea that it was all Cherry, wow ! Congratulations .
Jim Jakosh
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#9 posted 798 days ago
That is a one very nice project that you can surly be proud of. Thanks for sharing!!
-- Jim Jakosh.....Practical Wood Products...........Learn something new every day!!
Scott Bryan
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#10 posted 798 days ago
Ralphie, What a canoe!! This is gorgeous and you should be proud of building this project.
I can’t zoom in on your last two pictures. When this happens generally an ! is not present at the beginning and end of the link for the pictures.
-- Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful- Joshua Marine
B13
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#11 posted 798 days ago
Very nice! great looking canoe.
Jiri Parkman
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#12 posted 798 days ago
Nice thing this canoe. What are you going to do with it?
-- Jiri
Brohymn62
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#13 posted 362 days ago
Nice work
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