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Looks good, Bee Only problem is any friends, family and strangers that see it will want one Don't ask me how I know :D

we're not in the cypress selling business there are some folks around here that are, but a log good enough for a dugout just doesn't show up every day if you're ok working with growback, there's an outfit in batchelor, jones and jones, or jones brothers, something like that that had some nice...

Paint the ends of the log as soon as you get. Most water leaves through the end grain. Once you start shaping the log, managing the egress of the water is important. You want it to leave slowly to avoid splitting and cracking. We use a mixture of half mineral spirits and half boiled linseed...

interesting I've had sausage made from pork, deer, alligator, nutria, etc. but I've never had sausage made from beef

you done good not only do you have something to be proud of, but you've also helped preserve a bit of history for a few more years

we occasionally have that "slow to dry" problem with old growth cypress and oil based paint and varnish I suspect that it has something to do with the natural oil in the wood, I've talked to several paint formulators and they have no explanation. you can get around it by thinning the first...

No fiberglass, just epoxy saturation to make that old cypress a bit harder, then five coats of Epifanes

" the hull goes from a V, to round, and then to flat" sort of like this? jigs are your friends

you know Joey Hamlin? he claims to be from Ville Platte, but he might be from Turkey Creek

It takes a cypress tree 450 years to develop the natural oils that make it water and bug resistant. Since most everything standing was cut down a hundred or so years ago, there's not a lot of 450 year old cypress standing. Grow back is available but it is about as water resistant as plantation...

not sure I understand what you're doing, but wouldn't it be easier to add 1/4" filler strips to a thinner strip than to cut out 1/4" spaces from a thicker strip?

we use cypress for nearly every boat we build. The difference is that we use old growth cypress that is typically 800 to 1500 years old. The newer cypress, called grow back around here, is usually lighter in color, stiffer and more brittle than the old stuff. If your cypress has less than 30...

some history http://www.louisianafolklife.org/lt/vir ... meaux.html

we use ring shank nails in addition to glue, belt and suspenders approach curved stems are not tapered, beekeeper had a recent post on curved stems

maybe my remembering isn't what it's supposed to be or maybe we mixed it a little thicker than recommended so it wouldn't run down a vertical surface, but I don't remember a pot life anywhere near that. I do remember trying different adhesives like 5200 and a polyurethane something or other...

Mike, I think you're correct in your assessment. The typical "weldwood" was a tan powder and mixed with water to make a brown glue. It has been used at least as far back as the 50's and has glued many a boat together satisfactorily. It was used because it was the best they had. Friend Keith and...

"1st. question was about weight differences" - A 4 oz cloth filled with 35% resin will weigh about 2/3 of what a 6 oz cloth filled with 35% resin "Anybody like to look at this and simplify?" - If you're looking at a comparison of 4 and 6 oz , then you need to only look at sample a and sample...

optimum resin content is typically about 33% Less than that and you're not supporting the fibers, more than that and you're depending more on resin strength, which is less than glass So a lighter cloth will require less resin to achieve maximum performance (strength). But maximum performance...

got to agree with beekeeper, old paddles around here are straight sided, squared off and no more than 6" wide. They're quick and easy to make and functional for what was typical everyday life. Remember the average Cajun was no more than about 5' 6" and 120 lb and paddling was not the primary...

Making straight or rectangular panels work if you're building without much side flare. Once you get up to a nice flare, the arc that you have to cut out of the bottom of the sides causes the strips to not be parallel to the water line and the boat (in my opinion) looks to be a bit "hogged". It...