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I am curious how those of you who used paper patterns purchased from Feather Canoe or elsewhere proceeded with laying out your forms from the paper patterns. Did you transfer the lines directly from the paper to the plywood? Paper to poster board to plywood? After seeing the book and the...

I was curious so I did a little googling... It looks like soldering, brazing, or silver soldering are common fixes on these stoves. Some research on https://classiccampstoves.com may be helpful if indeed it does turn out to be cracked.

Strange! Did you clean out the old gasket to clean metal and did the gasket fit snugly? Could the leak be around the base of the filler neck rather than around the cap itself? Maybe there is a crack there. If so that might be the death of the stove. Not sure if it would be safe to solder or...

No sorry, no pictures. It was quite a few decades ago and what I did was far from strip canoe building. They were stitch and glue boats so not really built on a strong back and forms. I did clamp temporary impromptu forms to maintain alignment of pieces like transoms, stems, and maybe even...

I still have time to flip flop on this, but I think I like the idea of a plywood or MDF box construction. It is likely to be built in sections so I can add or remove sections for different build lengths in the future and also to get the sections through a small hatch to store out of the way in...

That makes sense. I use it on a lot of jigs in my musical instrument making. It works great with various wood glues. None of the wood glues I use seem to stick to it. Is that true for any epoxy that might get through the seams as well? Or is that just not a problem?

Mine has slept in the tent with me. She is usually pretty good. I point where I want her and she settles in. It has gone perfectly except once when the coyotes were yipping and howling very close by and she was trembling and crazy refusing to settle. Hard to tell if it was fear or excitement...

The tracing and warping issues make me wonder if MDF might be best. Interested to hear from others.

I guess I am just about ready to actually start working on my Wee Lassie 2. I don't expect to get going in earnest right away, but I purchased the templates, Mac's book, canoe bits for cove and bead, and I a couple Diablo blades are on the way. I figure I'll start prefabbing stuff in advance...

So upon a bit of checking I guess my 0.125" thin kerf blade is fairly state of the art for a 10" thin kerf blade. The 0.090" kerf blades are the 7-1/4" blades. So if I use the table saw it is going to eat that extra ~0.035" per strip as compared to the skillsaw unless I fit the 10" tablesaw...

Okay so I am wondering how you handle the narrow pieces when cutting with a skilsaw? I have a few ideas, but am curious what common practice is. I can't imagine just cutting the last strip from a narrow piece without the piece being held down some way. It sounds tricky. I could see maybe...

I've never found any gloves that I really liked for paddling, but I have had success with a solution. On a cold West Virginia morning at a put in for a whitewater run I made some pogies out of plastic tarp and duct tape for myself and a couple friends. Surprisingly they worked great! My...

It had occurred to me that would be a good idea, but I had seen little to no mention of it from other builders. I am used to doing scarf joints and would have no qualms about doing them except one. If I wind up with a hodge podge of widths and lengths of boards it might be a bit of a puzzle to...

I am used to using a bandsaw for re sawing. I have a few different fences for different purposes and re saw thicknesses from veneer on up all the time. Given that my normal work is mostly musical instruments I typically deal in rather short lengths though. I find that I can usually get a...

I'll have to experiment a little on some scrap lumber with the various methods before committing and will give that a go. I kind of wish I had the problem of pushing 16' lengths of cedar, but if I am lucky some of it will be 12'. The stuff in the local racks is mostly shorter lengths with some...

I have been throwing everything in the thread about finding wood for strips and figured maybe I should break out some questions in either separate threads or start a build thread. For now I'll do a break out of a specific topic. I dug out my 1981 printing of "The Strippers Guide to Canoe...

Yeah, I see your point, but while I have driven as much as 2000 miles round trip on lumber acquisition trips for musical instrument building (with other excuses for the trip thrown in), driving to Home Depots doesn't have the same appeal as cool lumber mills.

The lines you drew are what I'd ideally look for. The actual grain in the piece is closer to what I often find with a lot of the grain somewhat off of vertical due to the curve, some portions by a good bit. Is the actual piece close enough to suffice?

I use a similar technique for some musical instrument parts all the time especially when working with big thick slabs or planks. I actually I think more of the boards were vertical grain than flat sawn so that may be handy I do have access to all of the necessary tools to work it up so doing...

Well I guess it is getting to be decision time on the wood species. Poplar - I have not looked at it, but can generally get reliably nice 12' length poplar a half day trip away. As mentioned the guy currently is recovering from Covid. He seemed confident he would be open again in a week. I'd...