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I can't you have them all! For boat building my most used hand plane is my Stanley rabbet plane

Thank you! The thing I don't like about wood woodworking planes is the absence of weight, especially when working hardwoods like Ash and white oak.

We were only allowed a tarp when I took an outdoor survival and backpacking course many years ago. I like primitive minimal camping but I found out real quick going to the areas like the Adirondacks NY and Maine There is almost no escape from the mosquitoes and black flies, especially black...

Makes gossamer curls! Beech scrap from my reproduction Roubo bench build,. Yes the hole for the pin was drilled in the wrong place on the first attempt. The handle the knob and the wedge are white oak Lol

Piano bench! Philippine mahogany been laying around my shop for many many years I sold my baby grand that my son and I restored lo and behold I round up with a free spinet without a bench, so... Stain to match the old piano was a mixture of Kona and red mahogany

Hi Fitz! I even use Phillips screw heads because they are easier to drill the head off Yes, lining up the slot with the grain used to be the tell tale of "good craftpersonship" my legacy will be "she used phillips screws!" lol Then there were the teak bungs (plugs) on my 30ft sailboat handrails...

It's always a mildly surprising when people build or get solo boats they are usually 14 - 15' 29 -32" in beam. Although I paddled of my 16-foot prospector for many many years my 1st was Gil gilpatrick's Puddleduck stripper 14'6" and my last, my own design 15'2" x 30" beam w/c

Nicely done! first time I've seen the inside glassed first!

Is good for the soul, maybe not so great for the sole... (Stem tacks too short to let you know they be there :) )

The late Bill mason was my inspiration.. watching vids like song of the paddle, water walker.. I was hooked.. and wasn't going use wood or wood composite only on still water, "break em, fix em" I don't want anyone think I'm here to be know it all or start a wizzing contest..my apologies, no...

It was actually the blond on a rubber raft going by, my son wanted to get the canoe closer to, and he did an unannounced draw of the bow, took us right over a sharp Rock. Opened er up with a zipper like sound Lol. (Wasn't funny then) even though I've been in the HVAC business all my life...

Brian, I'm betting you're actually using electronic digital scales too! I don't think there are many strip boats out there that do not have double and triple glass on the bottom inside to prevent "oil canning" (bottom flex) but most of us don't know that until we start using the canoes...

Well if you want to get even more obsessive and not use screws you can use what are called rivet and rove fastening. Truly, most of the weight comes from the epoxy in glass. If I may ask what is the length of this forty-pound canoe? :) This was my first strip build. Gil Patrick's puddle duck...

Many wood canvas Builders insist on staying with Sitka Spruce for the in-rails, spruce is very light very strong but very expensive. We used AYC (Alaskan yellow cedar) it's nothing like Cedar as we know it and much more like Spruce as we know it, but yellow and very pungent smelling when cut...

We restored an old, I think it was 1912 Old Town HW 15 ft it had rail caps held down with escutcheon pins (little round headed nails) I like how the rail caps came together on point of the deck. It's all good!!

Jim, and scuppered rails make it easier to drain the boat just by rolling it over! Capped rails always trap some of the water when you try that until it's completely upside down.

I'm into 4 wheel drive Ford Rangers I have 2 I'm going to sell one. A strip built top for a truck would be very cool but I think the sun would destroy it in very short order painted or not varnished or not, a truck cap is like making an oven in the back of a pickup

I'm sure many people have struggled with dowels and drilling holes in them to hang canoe seats. I'm also sure there are as many ways to drill a hole in a dowel as there are ways to hang canoe seats! A machinist would do a most excellent job in this situation! As I also do turnings on a wood...

There are strip built bathtubs.. a truck cap is easy.. but they are so easy to find used and cheap. Usually under$200.

Yes, we all have our ways! I found that on strip canoes or wood canvas canoes the rails can be about the same the wood canvas of course needs a rabbet so that the out rail can clamp the canvas but it also covers the top of the planking which is what many of the strip boat builders like to do...