Cedar strip canoe

Building My Cedar Strip Canoe: Spring was just starting to arrive in northern Minnesota, and after a long winter, I was getting anxious to get back out into my little wood shop and start another project. Having more time than money on my hands, the project had only two crit…

One of my goals for 2018 is to build a cedar strip canoe. I wanted to document the process here in case anyone is looking for information for their own canoe building projects. Also, I have no idea what I’m doing so it should be entertaining if nothing else. This post is basically an overview […]

When building a cedar strip canoe, red cedar strips are one of the larger components of the total material cost. This is an estimate of the cost for red cedar strips.

Documenting progress of building my first canoe

How to build a Cedar Strip Canoe

We had a great foundation class last week, with 13 student for 6 days. It was the first foundation class of the year, and a wonderful way to start the new school year. Here is the last post about the canoe I built last year, it does’t have much written information, but I at least wanted […]

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Documenting progress of building my first canoe

Cedar Strip Canoe: The following is the quick and simple version of how I built my first cedar strip canoe. I'm in the process of building my second canoe right now and I've been posting detailed, short instructional videos for all the steps on my YouTube channel - ht…