First Class. The wicker looks really nice.
I think for a using canoe I would use rawhide babiche for the seats.
I think for a using canoe I would use rawhide babiche for the seats.
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New project... 17.5' Atkinson Traveler
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Some real talent there, beautiful workmanship. Thanks for the details of the build, that will a fine looking canoe when finished.
Terrific work, Pat, and very informative and likely motivating for future builders.
I agree.
I agree.
Grab handles, thwarts, and seat frames varnished:
and installed (though not seats- they need to be woven):
Grab handles are radiused across their width, and lightly tapered at the ends resulting in a slight crown which mimics the crowned decks:
The exterior of the hull has received a coat of 50/50 varnish/thinner prior to going into the canvas:
And canvas stretched overnight before being loosened to allow the canoe to be dropped in:
Canoe in the canvas with two bundles of shingles (150 lbs) wrapped in large garbage bags to avoid getting granules in the canoe provide weight to press the canoe down into the fabric:
It took lots of room to stretch this 22' piece of #10 canvas. Could have worked with a shorter piece, but it's what I had on hand. The diagonal arrangement across my work space resulted in minimal room to walk around, and my bench vise barely allowed clearance.
Here's the canvas stretching method I use for fastening with stainless steel 3/8" staples, 2 at each rib.
I use a piece of 1/4" plywood as a fulcrum against the inner surface of the inwale. It avoids damage to the inwale during the hard pivot of the vise grip during stretching. The vise grips need to grip 2 layers of canvas to avoid ripping the fabric.
Finished with the come-along stretching, ready to split the ends of the canvas and stretch/wrap the ends.
Ready to weave seats with 6mm binder cane. This should be fun...
This past week an old canoe found me! An acquaintance of mine who knows I like old canoes arranged for a friend of his to give me an Old Town canoe which the owner had decided to get rid of. Turns out via the serial number imprinted into the stems, it was delivered to Trenton, NJ in 1919, exactly one year to the day before my Dad was born! It's a 16' Heavy Water model (designed with a rounder bottom than the OTCA model, and therefore preferred at the time for river travel), in CS grade which refers to "common sense"- a less expensive canoe with Spruce seats, thwarts, decks, and rails rather than Mahogany. It's in really good shape for being 105 years old! Another project in waiting...
and installed (though not seats- they need to be woven):
Grab handles are radiused across their width, and lightly tapered at the ends resulting in a slight crown which mimics the crowned decks:
The exterior of the hull has received a coat of 50/50 varnish/thinner prior to going into the canvas:
And canvas stretched overnight before being loosened to allow the canoe to be dropped in:
Canoe in the canvas with two bundles of shingles (150 lbs) wrapped in large garbage bags to avoid getting granules in the canoe provide weight to press the canoe down into the fabric:
It took lots of room to stretch this 22' piece of #10 canvas. Could have worked with a shorter piece, but it's what I had on hand. The diagonal arrangement across my work space resulted in minimal room to walk around, and my bench vise barely allowed clearance.
Here's the canvas stretching method I use for fastening with stainless steel 3/8" staples, 2 at each rib.
I use a piece of 1/4" plywood as a fulcrum against the inner surface of the inwale. It avoids damage to the inwale during the hard pivot of the vise grip during stretching. The vise grips need to grip 2 layers of canvas to avoid ripping the fabric.
Finished with the come-along stretching, ready to split the ends of the canvas and stretch/wrap the ends.
Ready to weave seats with 6mm binder cane. This should be fun...
This past week an old canoe found me! An acquaintance of mine who knows I like old canoes arranged for a friend of his to give me an Old Town canoe which the owner had decided to get rid of. Turns out via the serial number imprinted into the stems, it was delivered to Trenton, NJ in 1919, exactly one year to the day before my Dad was born! It's a 16' Heavy Water model (designed with a rounder bottom than the OTCA model, and therefore preferred at the time for river travel), in CS grade which refers to "common sense"- a less expensive canoe with Spruce seats, thwarts, decks, and rails rather than Mahogany. It's in really good shape for being 105 years old! Another project in waiting...
Canvas ends stretched and buttoned up. Full canvas 'flamed' with a torch to burn off the 'fuzzies', then brushed and vacuumed. Too late in the day to start filling, so that's going to be a tomorrow job when I'm fresh!
Uh oh... another canoe found me. Actually I spotted this one in a local lawn. It's an unidentified 16'canoe so far and too expensive to consider, especially with all my projects, but wow.... they keep coming out to tempt me! It's got an oddball interior keelson and stem knees at the bow and stern. Probably a home-built rather than a commercial product, though pretty graceful looking. It's got a lot of cracked ribs so probably had a hard life.
Uh oh... another canoe found me. Actually I spotted this one in a local lawn. It's an unidentified 16'canoe so far and too expensive to consider, especially with all my projects, but wow.... they keep coming out to tempt me! It's got an oddball interior keelson and stem knees at the bow and stern. Probably a home-built rather than a commercial product, though pretty graceful looking. It's got a lot of cracked ribs so probably had a hard life.
Nice job tacking those stems down.
Jim
Jim
