Skin on Frame Shearwater build, Day 5) 2hrs . Nothing terribly exciting here today. Just spent a couple hours sorting through lumber and cutting it into strips then cutting tapers, then gluing it up into longer lumber for the gunwales and the upper stringer. For these particular joints, I thickened the epoxy to about the texture of mayonnaise with cab o sill. I would rather be gluing up a different dimension of wood right now, but these are what I was able to make out of what I had. . . . wooden

Turn the sound on! I build a LOT of prototype kayaks but it’s very rare for me to land on a candidate for further development. This is one of them. To recap: I’ve been working for about 10 years on a kayak for self-support trips on rivers that have a lot of flat water but the occasional class III or even class IV rapid that can’t be portaged. This is prototype #8. This time I decided to throw out everything I’ve done before and combined the proven ergonomics and cargo spaces of the deck of my st

Tom builds all the coamings for our skin-on-frame kayak building kits. Here he shows his technique for solo steam-bending the double-lip that gives us sufficient depth for rock solid sprayskirt attachment. He normally does this at his shop, so this is my first time watching his process and I actually learned a few things! Bending wood is from @jwswanandsons . . . . #steambending #skinonframekayak #skinonframe #kayakbuilding #woodworking | Cape Falcon Kayak

Liz builds a skin on frame kayak. Part 2. . With the tenons cut on the ends of the deck beams Liz assembles the deck. . This joinery is a mixture of modern and traditional techniques although construction methods varied so widely throughout the Arctic that the word “traditional” can refer to dozens of different building techniques. I simply use whatever is strong, fast, and easy. . The compound angle mortise and tenon joinery here is actually pretty easy with the system we use and the tolerances