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I am a huge fan of opinel knives. I had the pleasuere of visiting the factory when I was stationed in Germany. I think it was in St Bernard. What an amazing sight. Each knife is ground and sharpened by hand over a massive water wheel that the worker lays down over top of. An amazing sight to...

WOW!!!! have prices ever gone thru the roof on epoxy. I'm lookin at $100/gallon that's pur crazyness

good go on the trailer the flowers in the background make me sick....it's -11C here today

that's some beautiful work, thanks for posting

Re: 100 Year Old Pirpgue a work of art and a fitting place to be displayed

I've been thinking about better ways to do the rubrails on a ply boat (skiff or pirogue) What if.......one was to secure both the inner and the outer rails 1/4" above the side panel. It would give you a 1/4" well of sorts for some thickened epoxy which would cover the exposed sides of the...

No Jmmy, it will have a cabin ("house" in NFLD), she's 28' decked with spruce and weighs as mch as the empire state bldg. The shape of the hull is mostly dependent on the raw materials. Mother nature has allot to do with how she'l look in the end. There are some pretty tortured planks i that hull.

My goodness Jammy, never would'a thought you've never been to the Blarney stone. You definately have the gift. I myself did give it a little kiss and got nothing in return, there was no warranty. My 2 buddies Beamish and Guinnes lended me a hand. Keep the posts coming.

Jarhead, I hope you don't mind http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2715/p1000348t.jpg you can really see the one piece keel/stem however this one broke on him and had to be cut and reattached http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/489/07140001.jpg the keel gets extended past the stuffing block where...

I believe he's referring to the top edge being parallel to the bottom edge...or not

I kinda hijacked this thread....sorry Newfoundlanders also use the root area for the ribs of the boat. little if any steaming required by using the natural curve of the transition from trunk to root

you want to see how they cut the stem out of the tree. If the boat is to be 28 feet they dig around the base of the tree to expose the largest root and cut everything else away. then he cuts the top off the tree at 28' and drags the entire shot back to his mill. Where the entire tree gets run...

well folks, I have restarted the laker build and have the bottom panels stitched together and stiched to the forms. I layed the top panels on and taped them just to get a visual and by golly there be a boat in them flat panels. I shall include some pics when I get home. I went with butt...

JammyJ, what a great report. I love Ireland, spent 3 weeks in Cork a couple years ago. I'm gonna hazard a guess that you have visited the cloch na Blarnan by the eloquence and rythym of your post that injured pike looks like prop damage to me

you gettin emotional??? Cripes, I'm gettin emotional reading it!!! what a fantastic report!! I can feel your pride thanks, you just made my day.

the dory in pic 006 is similar to the solid side boats that I have seen him use clay for. These dories were and still are incredibly stable even in rough waters actually if you look at boat 017 you can see exactly what I'm talking about. That stem/keel is one single piece of juniper

Jack, you have no idea how funny that idea is. He is 77 years old and grew up in country that you can still today find places that humans have never touched. This man has never eaten a hamburger....really. The thought of "Pop" getting in front of a computer....well I can't even conjure up a...

my local Canadian Tire store has an inexpensive 2 sided saw on special right now for 50% off. I will be buying one today

My Newfoundlander Father in law has been building boats for many many years and for the most part his stems/keel are cut from the base of a tree including the area that goes down to the roots, but when building a skiff like boat he does similar to what Greybeard says but once the bow is pulled...

every time I see this thing I want one more and more. Oh...isn't wifey gonna be pleased when I start yet another build