Building a Cedar Canoe without Staples

you you there's a lot of different ways to build a wood strip book from having an inner stem to not have any understand as well as the ways that we apply the wood strips to the station forms I'm going to be demonstrating how to build a wood strip canoe using the inner stem and not using the under step as well as a variety of different ways to apply the cedar strips I hope that you see as we go along that there's not one right way and one wrong way to build a wood strip boat but a lot of different ways that will accomplish the same or similar and product what I'd like you to do is just observe the different methods that I have here in these videos and then choose what you think is the best method for you and then hopefully you also realize that it's okay to mix and match and use different techniques in different situations what I do is I use some masking tape just you know simple plain one-inch masking tape and that helps to hold the strips in place while I line it up and then you can see building without the inner stem this drip is overlapping the strip that I've cut on an angle and I just let it hang out at the end and then I'll trim that off later on put a bit of glue people are going to ask what kind of glue I use and this is not the kind this is just the glue bottle that I liberated that it seems to work perfect but I just used regular carpenters glue okay and to hold the strip's down the rest of the way in addition to the tape the tape isn't going to hold them firm enough it's also not kind of gonna give this drip the contour of the boat okay it'll just hold it vertically down but it's not going to allow this trip to build so I use these cleats okay at least I call them cleats just a little piece of wood thin piece of wood with a notch it's a just slightly greater than a quarter of an inch and then I just slide them down onto the strip push the strip down firmly take a seat clamp see clamp overlaps the cleat and the station form and it's tight you even if you've chosen to build your woods trip canoe stable free there's nothing wrong with using a stable from time to time to hold a strip down when you're faced with difficult locations and compound curves a staple once every eight feet or so will not be noticed and relieve a lot of stress and frustration as you're building joining two shorter strips together to make a long strip is easy all I do is use a homemade miter jig I put both strips in at the same time and make one cup so the only real thing to think about when you're using shorter strips is where your joints are going to be okay so I've got its full length Western redcedar and shorter lengths of Ontario yellow cedar okay so this part strip is Ontario yellow cedar and then these three their full length western red cedar and then I have to a shorter length under a yellow cedar that I've joined together so in these previous yellow cedar strips I have one joint here and at another joint at station number one okay right here and that's what you just need to add in mind when you're using shorter strips don't stack all your joints in the same place and try to stagger them from end to end and different positions if you're building your full canoe with shorter strips it'll become a bit challenging but it's totally doable okay you don't have to have your joints in the middle you can have them on the station form so even staggering them six inches is going to offset it enough alright and just figure out the pattern that you're you know that you're working on and then you know when you get to you know your ten strip you can easily just begin that iron again and you'll have you know intense a 10 strip gap between your joints so it's easy enough okay so the only other thing that I should point out is what are you to attach them is I have a little just a piece of a strip and I some masking tape on one side and then when I lay up the the next strip I'm going to take this and put it on the inside and then I'm going to take my clamp and I'm going to clamp right on top of the joint okay you can use a spring clamp or you can use a C clamp or a couple of spring plant a couple C clamps whatever is going to hold that that join together so you know once it the glue dries it forms a nice you know seamless strip and Excise before we get too far outstripping to halt one thing you may notice or may not is that I've marked along the edge of the station forms a little long now what that represents is a false water okay the reason why I say that it's a false alarm line is because it is not the actual water line on the canoe but it'll be close it'll be somewhere around there and how we know that is that but a clue that is a four inch water line so what I've done is from the station forms I've measured down four inches and then brought that line over to the edge okay up near the stems it's definitely not going to be the water line okay but near the middle of the canoe it will be pretty close so the purpose of doing that is that from that marker line down to the shear line is the location for doing any type of feature element okay so if you want to put some kind of pattern or darker strips that's the area that really you should be focusing so what I'm doing is I'm adding a much darker Western redcedar strip that's going to be just above the water line near the center of the canoe and then it'll rise up towards the step

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Length: 13min 36sec (816 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 01 2013