Recent content by Gamma1214

I seriously doubt that the truck will match this canoe but I am currently looking for a replacement. The rusty, trusty Ranger broke the crankshaft, I looked the truck over carefully and decided that the frame is too soft to justify dropping in another engine. A little over 338,000 miles and...

Well, you won't have to worry about keeping up.

I fished some more Cherry out of the barn for gunwales, trim, more paddles, whatever and then stopped by the shop & flipped the canoe. The tape & sawdust seem to have done a very good job of keeping the spit from seeping through and I am extremely pleased that there were very few areas inside...

Interesting... I was primarily concerned with the ability of the epoxy to penetrate through the spit and attach firmly to the wood (which it seems to have done). I'll probably be over tomorrow evening. Maybe I'll see if I can rip the glass off the test panel with pliers. If it's tearing the...

That squirrel baffle didn't slow him down much

I'm not sure what you mean... The way I broke it, I put the glass toward the floor, put one end on a block & jumped up and down until it broke. I thought it would be most likely to pull away from the wood by bending in that direction. You think it would have been more prone to separation if...

"Gobble and be gobbled"?

I like it! Grab some up, name the lake & I'll meet ya. The headgear will fit right in with my new Merlin. (just don't look at it after wobbly pops... it might end poorly)

I worried about that in the planning stages and that's why I made the test panel. I'm unsure if you clicked on the "spoiler" above so I'll include the picture again here. Application was the same except that I ran a scotch brite pad across it. I was very skeptical until I broke the panel...

LOL You had an inkling of what was coming... was it as bad as you feared? @Alan Gage : Interior will be plain Pine & Cherry (after all, it's the part I'll see when I'm paddling) The Shpit (I like that- stealing it) dried to a flat, almost chalk-like texture but I'd previously wet the hull and...

Alan, I've seen, in your threads, that you do that and it makes sense but won't work here. For this boat, I'll need bare wood. I'm sure that some are wondering about the "extra trippy" part and this might make more sense w/ a little back story: I have been known to disappear into the woods...

Sorry Benson, you lost me at "no pubs". :LOL:

Looked like a couple of nice tent pads on RR at 1:33 and 7:30 (at least, I think it was RR... hard to tell without rocks) Looked up the aqueduct... interesting project and I'm glad that they restored it.

I worry about developing sensitivity to epoxy so I'm extremely careful about skin contact (I seem to still get some) and use epoxy sparingly. I've taken to gluing seat & thwart laminations (I don't make decks) but I do use epoxy where the piece will experience more constant water contact...

Interesting... I've always been afraid to put anything but oil in mine for fear of damaging the seasoning; I never realized that you could heat water. I mean, I washed the new one last night with (gasp) soap and it retained the seasoned finish (Hot water scrub only from here on out but...