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The point is you do not need natural full-length strips to make a boat. Shorter strips may even be preferred at times, being easier to handle, less prone to having cove edges damaged by handling, and possibly less expensive than the extra long planks. The color and quality selection is also a lot better, there being more of the shorter planks available at the lumberyard than those big long honkers.

Since strips are cut from a flat plank, the thickness of the plank determines the width of the strip. Construction lumber, e. There are two reasons for not doing so. First, plank thickness should never be assumed to be consistent.

Two nearly identical planks from the same pile in the same lumberyard may be of sufficiently different thickness to cause problems later. This is especially true if shorter strips must be joined in a scarf joint.

Different thickness planks will produce strips of different widths, and scarfing such dissimilar strips together risks gaps in the finished hull, which will require filling. Second, the curvature of the hull is defined by the curve in the ribs. Mounting relatively wide strips against a curved rib will leave an inner surface consisting of several flats attempting to define a curve. It is similar to trying to draw a circle using only a series of connecting straight lines.

The more numerous and shorter the straight lines are, the nearer to a true circle the figure becomes. If narrower strips are used to plank a hull, the fairer the curve becomes. Planing and sanding the ridges from the outside of the hull is normally done regardless of strip width, but the narrower the strips, the less wood has to be removed to fair the surface.

On the inside of a stripped guideboat hull, the ribs prevent anything but a clean-up sanding, with extensive fairing in order to shape the hull being next to impossible. Planing both sides cleans up any dings in the board, and exposes surfaces with equal moisture content and the same color. It also discourages cupping due to uneven moisture content. Trying to cut strips from a cupped board will likely produce strips with a lot of saw marks, and can be downright dangerous if the board binds while being ripped.

Special orders for thinner strips could raise the price considerably. Getting the width was easy. Getting the finished thickness takes a little more effort. Since we will be using a bead and cove edge treatment, and since the router bits commonly available for milling the edges are sized to 0.

This also assumes a consistent thickness the entire length of the strip. The consequences of failing to adhere to this seemingly rigid tolerance results in problems that could impact hull aesthetics and require significant time and effort to correct, if corrections would even be possible.

Inevitably, slight wavering will result. This means some rather nasty saw marks, and a varying strip thickness. Routing the edges so that the bead and cove are perfectly centered across the thickness of the strip is impossible. Now mount that strip on the ribs. When mated to the previous strip, there will likely be thinner areas where it is impossible to have the strip lie tight against a rib, leaving an unsightly gap between the rib and the strip.

Trying to fill these gaps takes a lot of time, work, and patience, and leaves behind telltale evidence of questionable craftsmanship. It is so much more pleasurable to take justifiable pride in good work than it is to take time to fix avoidable mistakes. Cutting the Strips. The solution is to rough cut the strips slightly oversize and plane them to the final thickness. Either a band saw or table saw may be used.

With the table saw, gang cutting of two or even three strips at a time is possible, given a saw of sufficient power. Since two of the smaller blades produce the same waste as the larger single blade, the power requirements are comparable.

Three blades may be a stretch in a lesser-powered saw such as a tabletop model. Use a piece of scrap strip to adjust the planer � using an actual strip requires the entire strip to be run through, perhaps several times, and an incompletely thicknessed strip may later become mixed in with the finished strips.

A planer with an adjustable thickness stop is a real help here, but careful adjustment and measurement can accomplish the same result in the absence of a stop. A dial vernier caliper is also quite useful when approaching the planer setting for the final thickness. This may all seem like a lot of work, and professional builders might scoff at the extra time required since time is money. Then there is the "too much waste" argument.

The amount of extra time and waste is a mere pittance when the quality of both the strips and the boat are considered. Certainly a boat may be built with strips cut right off the saw. Inconsistencies in strip thickness can be easily faired out in a hull built without ribs, but in the classic ribbed guideboat, variations in strip thickness lead to the problems previously described. Acceptable sawn strips may be produced by a well-tuned saw, a sharp thin kerf blade or blades, long and rigid infeed and outfeed tables, and the capability to feed the plank tight against the fence for the entire length of the cut with no wavering.

Not impossible, but not likely, either. Slicing planks into enough strips to build a guideboat requires passing over a thousand linear feet of wood past the blade of a saw.

We can reduce that amount by one half using gang-mounted blades on a table saw to cut two strips at a single pass Figure These 7 to 8-inch blades are usually used in portable circular saws, but with the correct size arbor hole, adapt quite nicely to table saw use. Using two blades separated by a spacer in a gang-cutting configuration produces the same total kerf waste as the standard inch table saw blade, but two strips are produced rather than one.

There are a few considerations in the design of a blade spacer for gang cutting. Its diameter should be the same as the saw's arbor flange to prevent distortion stresses on the blades when the arbor nut is tightened.

Machining a metal spacer is a luxury; making a solid wood spacer is a practical and satisfactory alternative. Any of the common hardwoods may be used for the spacer. This is not a precise dimension - a ruler measurement is sufficiently accurate at this point. Counter boring the arbor hole first leaves a dimple in the bottom of the counter bore that is used as a center point for the lead drill of a circle cutter, which is adjusted to the same diameter as the arbor flange.

Once the spacer has been cut from the blank, the arbor hole may be completed. Drilling in this sequence assures that the circumference of the spacer is concentric with the arbor hole.

Figure Table saw setup for gang cutting strips. A new zero clearance insert on the table saw is required to accommodate the twin blades. A simple alternative to making a new one is to turn an existing insert around end for end and cut the twin slots along the side opposite the standard blade slot. With the blades and spacer mounted, lower the blades and install the insert. Turn on the saw and slowly raise the blades to cut the new clearance slots.

Adjust the fence so that the inner strip width will be the same as the outer one, and make a test cut. The outer strip thickness may be adjusted by shimming between the spacer and a blade. A sacrificial push stick is also shown, along with a shop-built feed helper. The nail points just penetrate the plywood and securely bite into the surface of the board, permitting both forward and lateral pressure while feeding. True enough. But the reason for making nice smooth uniform thickness strips lies in milling accurately centered bead and cove edges, which leads to a cleaner hull.

The generation of less kerf waste when cut with a band saw is a non-issue, since planing off the saw marks generates waste comparable to that generated after cutting with a table saw. Band-sawn strips, when cut oversize and planed as described above, are perfectly acceptable, however. Routing the Edges. The ridge along the outside of the glue joint when such strips are mounted to the ribs will be quite small, requiring a minimum of scraping or sanding to bring fair.

This accurate fit ensures a good glue joint with no gaps or voids. No gaps mean fewer fills. Fewer fills mean less work filling, scraping, and sanding. When buying bits, consider that a few thousand linear feet of cutting will be performed in making strips for a single boat.

Bit quality considerations should take precedence over cost, and keeping the bits sharp is important but not difficult.

Sharp bits cut cleanly, reduce tear out, and given the amount of cutting to be done, reduces strain on the router motor. A few passes over a medium to fine grit diamond sharpening stone on the inside flat surface of the cutters is sufficient.

The equipment setup for milling the strip edges is not difficult or complicated. A table mounted router, fence, and at least three feather boards are all that is necessary. Long infeed and outfeed tables are a luxury, the lack of which can be compensated for by proper handling during cutting.

Routing operations using a table-mounted router are nearly always performed by feeding the work against the rotation of the bit. Viewed from above, the router bit rotates counter clockwise and the stock is fed from the right to the left. The bit rotation tends to pull the stock into the bit, keeping the work against the fence. Strips may be milled in this fashion, but significant tear-out can result when the grain changes slope. Cedar is not very strong between grain lines and will crack or tear out, especially while cutting the more fragile cove edges.

Back routing, sometimes called climb cutting, reduces tear-out to nearly zero and produces a superior quality milled edge. In this method, the work piece is fed with the rotation of the bit. Back routing with a hand held router is extremely difficult to control, with the router suddenly wandering off line, potentially ruining the work.

In a router table, back routing can grab the work piece and propel it with near rifle-like force. However - when properly set up and carefully executed, back routing is quite safe and will produce nearly perfect bead and cove strips regardless of changes in grain orientation. For back routing strips, the feather boards are adjusted to keep the stock firmly against both the table and the fence. When fed into the cutter, there is no tendency for the bit to grab.

In fact, the stock must be pushed or pulled through the entire length, with full control. Before beginning the edge milling, set two strips aside.

These can be damaged or low quality poor color strips, and need not have any edge treatment. They must be full length since they will be used as alignment battens for the ribs, and later as anchors for the bungee cords used for clamping the actual glued strips. They will ultimately be discarded and not become any part of the boat.

The bead edge is cut first so that the beaded edge will then bear against the feather board when the coves are cut. If the cove edges were cut first, the pressure of the feather board against the fragile cove edges would damage them. The bead bit is installed in the router and its height adjusted visually so that there is a smooth transition between the surface of the table and the curve of the cutter.

This adjustment is later refined using a short piece of actual strip to be milled. The fence is then adjusted so that the apex of the curve is tangent to the fence. Again, further refinement will be done. Now place a piece of strip against the fence so that it spans the cutter, and long enough to extend at least a foot on either side. The cutting edge will have to be rotated out of the cutting position so that the strip will lie against the fence on both sides of the bit.

Place one feather board flat on the table to bear against the strip, centered at the cutter and pushing the strip against the fence.

Place the other two feather boards vertically against the fence so that they push down on the strip. These should be located just before and just after the cutter opening in the fence. See Figure Router setup for back routing bead and cove edges. With the power off on the router, push the test piece through the feather boards. It should be a snug fit, and require some effort to pull it back out. Check the feather boards, making sure they are not cocked against the strip and all of the teeth are bearing against the strip.

Remove the test piece and turn on the router. Feed a few inches of the strip into the cutter, holding it securely. If there is any tendency for the strip to move on its own, stop and readjust the feather boards to provide more pressure. The ideal adjustment is achieved when the strip must be pushed into the rotating cutter, and will not move when you let go of it.

Examine the short test piece. The bead should be centered, with no shoulder. If any shoulder is apparent, adjust the vertical height of the bit to correct it. The top of the bead should be round and in alignment with the flat uncut portion. The staples holding the planks to the frame can then be taken out without destroying the shape since the strips will be securely held together by the epoxy.

At this stage, the canoe will have taken shape and all that will be left is waterproofing the hull and making the final touches. Fiberglass will form the first protective layer of the canoe to help prevent water damage on the hull. Before laying the fiberglass, you will have to use sandpaper to smooth out the exterior of the canoe, and then dust it off.

Using a brush or a piece of cloth, epoxy will be applied on one side of the fiberglass cloth which will then be laid on the outside surface of the hull, making sure that the whole surface is covered.

Using your hands, you should then press the fiberglass sheet onto the hull to ensure that no pockets of air form between the epoxy and the cedar. The fiberglass will take about an hour to stick to the hull, after which it will form a clear, glossy surface. The canoe should then be taken down from the frame holding it on the platform and the process of sanding and laying the fiberglass repeated on the inner part of the hull.

Seats will be built using hardwood lumber and fixed with screws across the inside part of the hull. The screws attaching the seats should be covered in epoxy to seal any gaps created. This will be the final stage in construction of the canoe. The whole canoe should be sanded inside and out one final time before applying the varnish. Two layers of varnish should be sufficient. The varnish will not only give the canoe extra waterproofing protection, but will also prevent degradation of the epoxy by ultraviolet rays.

A cedar-strip canoe is a visually appealing canoe that is durable and strong enough to be used for years after construction. If you are keen to pursue this undertaking, you will benefit tremendously from a valuable boat-building package that gives you instant access to:. With this resource, you can immediately start building your dream canoe without the massive expense that comes with having someone else do it for you. Sound good? Thanks for reading this content. If you have any questions or feedback, drop them in the comments below!

You can share the article if you liked it using the buttons below. February 7, December 6, March 7, It would have been nice to see specific images illustrating the process, but thanks nonetheless.

I completely understand that, which is why I linked to the special resource that I discuss in the article. There you can get full plans with detailed images and how-to videos for building a canoe. Thanks for your comment! Thanks Scott for sharing this project with us. I was researching online for a step by step guide on how to make a canoe when I came a cross your article.

Having been brought up by a fisherman, making and owning a personal canoe has been a childhood dream. My father used to own a small wooden canoe and he would take me along with him whenever he went fishing. This article offers a good overview of the building process. I once thought owning a canoe was only possible for the rich, but my perspective has since changed. What is the most appropriate length of the keel in relation to the whole body? How tall should my mast be and can I use a metallic mast on a wooden boat?

I am asking all these because I had once tried a similar project that turned out to be a failure. The first time I took the boat to the waters it had a problem with balancing. I suspected either the length of either the mast or the keel. I almost gave up on the project but I feel motivated to restart it.

Do you have this in some kind of an ebook or PDF? Hey Jack, thanks for the comment. I think the answer is fairly involved and I would recommend doing some research on it. With regard to your second question, you can use a metal such as aluminum for your mast, and the length of the mast will depend on an array of factors also. You can research this or get the exact specifications of parts of the canoe in the design plans that I link to in the article.

Good luck! This is a great piece on canoe-making, thank you for sharing with us. I think my son and I will have something to keep us busy and possibly a birthday gift for him at the end of it! I was wondering if I can use an old timber from my cabin.

I thought buying a new timber for this may be a little expensive for us. If the old timber can work then is there a special paint to protect it from water or we can just use the ordinary vanish and paint you suggested in the article? Thanks a lot. I am looking forward to hearing form you. Hi Gary. I hope you and your son have a ton of fun with this. There are several ways you can seal it to be waterproof, such as with epoxy, varnish, waterproofing oils like tung oil, etcetera.

If you need more clarification, just ask. About two years ago I decided to try and build a canoe myself. The whole canoe was about three meters long with keel extending to about an inch. The project went well up to the point at which I went to test it on the water, but when I went to the water, I had a host of problems. First, the canoe seemed to be leaning more towards one side than the other. Also, water kept on leaking on the inside from the joints of the timber.

Then, I had problems whenever I approached the oncoming waves � the boat was hitting the water so hard that I would get drenched. I will let you know how it goes.

Thanks Scott. That sounds pretty disastrous; sorry to hear that it turned out like that. With the right design plan and the correct plan of attack, building a quality canoe should be relatively straightforward. I hope your next project turns out much better. Your email address will not be published. Looking for canoe plans, guides, high-resolution illustrations and more? Click here or scroll down to the bottom of this article! The advent of modern technology has, however, made canoes obsolete as a means of transport.

Structure and Shape Canoes typically have a boat-like shape but are usually slimmer and pointed on both ends.

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