I bought a copy of Canoecraft by Ted Moores. I made it about 1/2 way through it last night. No real big decisions have been made yet. I am hoping to have an overall plan no later than the beginning of next week.
I did make a few decisions though. I am going to use black walnut and/or cherry for the thwarts, gunwales and deck. Said wood is currently air drying and hopefully not checking too bad. The 4/4 cherry and walnut should be plenty dry by early summer '09, which would likely be the earliest it would be needed.
Black walnut cut with the Woodmizer in Copiah County last spring.
This is some of the lumber from the Copiah County sawing. I would like to be able to use a full crotch out of one of the walnut boards for one of the decks.
This is the chief lumber grader and stacking supervisor.
This is the hardwood from the Copiah sawing.
2 comments:
Cherry Thwarts, huh! this is going to be kingly! is this the same lumber you were supposed to build a cabin out of? I've never heard of using cypress. up in MN they do birch bark a lot. But i assume cypress would bend nicely
Most of the cabin lumber is drying right now. The hardwood is just general project lumber. I am going to have to get some cypress cut for the canoe. I'm not 100% whether cypress would work. I don't see why it would not. I would guess there haven't been a lot strip canoes made out of it because it is such a regional lumber - I don't know. If I were to run across enough cedar long enough, I might consider that. I wouldn't consider the cherry thwarts kingly, it is more a matter of what I already have.
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