I finally got going tonight on my late winter project which has now become an early spring project. I am attempting to build a Wee Lassie II as described in Mac McCarthy's book Featherweight Boatbuilding. Stripperguy was kind enough to answer many questions that I had back in December when I first decided to build a canoe, and I will undoubtedly have more questions as I proceedx. I cut two small dead aspen trees in late December when we had a crust on top of the snow and dragged them to the mill by hand since I couldn't get to the woods with a tractor. I cut them into boards, cut some of the boards into strips and put the strips up by the ceiling of the shop to dry and be out of the way. Tonight I got them down and ran them through the router table to put the bead and cove on the edges of the strips. It took about 2.5 hours to bead and cove all of the strips, and a lot of them broke at knots in the process and will have to be spliced. I took a picture of the router table after I was done and had cleaned up a bit, as it was pretty well covered in dust and chips during the operation. I also traced the patterns that I got from Feather Canoes onto large sheets of paper so that I can cut them out and still have the original plan to refer to if I get mixed up. Tomorrow night I hope to cut out the forms and assemble them onto the strongback.
Zach
Zach
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