Cheeseandbeans

Always enjoy watching one of Ray Mear's videos. There is much to learn and he's rather matter-of-fact about it all. I love his style...

I stopped over briefly tonight, primarily to fix the jack stand set-up. No, when I tilted it without lifting the base off of the...

Gamma, if you have a gap of 3/8" to build up, it may be less work just to remake/rework that form, you have a perfect alignment on the...

StrongBack Setup This isn't a new strongback and gets used for a lot of different things in the shop. So the first step for me is to...

For those interested ... this is a pic of said Uniwales being finished, on my first canoe. You can see the portions added for attaching...

The NWC Merlin is a hard tracking boat. I gave away the one I made, but have paddled it on a number of occasions in flat and moving...

Certainly didn't want to stir up any controversy. I worked construction before - I was unaware I was at the bottom of the...

Not to add to thread drift but (yeah, I know, "everything that precedes the word 'but' is clearly BS")... Nope. Typically, only young...

Gunnels Timely mention of gunnels Jim, will drop that section here. When I was getting ready to build my first canoe, all starry eyed...

Makes perfect sense and I HAD suspected that the plans were drawn for stemless. I remembered that Jim said he dropped the stem forms by...

The game plan coming into winter this year was to finish the Raven that I'd started and to get another solo finished before spring...

Stem Revisions Bit of a foreword, this build is transitioning from a stemmed to stemless build and a length from 15' to 17' and that...

Solo on the Light Side Over the past couple of months, I noticed something about the canoe lookingfor/purchase/release threads that I...

Don't know about you fellas down in the 11th province, but up here the 2024 ranger only comes with the super crew and five foot box...

My wife finishing setting up our sleeping area on last weekend’s backpacking trip.