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(snip) She asked what caused that, and when explaining to her I got to thinking... Stopped the Scout and got in the back to look, I had a new can of Coleman fuel for my camp stove that was ALMOST ROUND at that point.... :eek: I think I would just about have an "O" ring seal failure right ...

Okay found it - thanks!

Okay I'm an idiot.

I'm looking for a "Furniture" forum around here somewhere and not finding it. Where am I not looking?

Must have had a pretty good running start to crunch it up like that.
I have to take mine apart and clean them up - they've been in storage in someone's garage for about 20 years.

Cool pic.

Nice work on the canoe. I also built a 14 foot canoe with a Shopsmith in California. I had ash gunwales and hand woven seats. On the maiden voyage we took it up into the Sierra Nevada foothills. Stopping at a restaurant people gathered around the truck to admire the boat strapped to the roof. One m...

Tim... The fiberglassing and epoxying, however, was sufficiently unpleasant that I don't want to do another boat with this method. I would be interested to hear if you had the same experience. Hi Ed, thanks for the comments. We did a LOT of homework on fiberglassing before leaping into it. We bough...

Beautiful boat and great photos. I looked on the Northwest Canoe site and don't see anything called the 38 Special. Did they rename it? Thanks, Mark Mark - good catch. Yes they did rename that canoe. It USED to be the "big sister" of the Merlin just blown up 3.8% (hence the "old"...

Is a moaning chair a place to go when things don't happen as planned? Serious question! I have never hear of a moaning chair but I think maybe I need one. Dusty your assumption is correct. A moaning chair is where you go to place your head in both hands and groan (or moan) your way through the prob...

Beautiful work. What a lucky son. That is a gift he will cherish for years and pass down through the generations. Great job. You state you've never built a canoe before. Did you purchase plans or a bare-bones kit? I know it isn't a complete kit since you fabbed the forms and ripped the stripping. A...

I bought a '83 Mark V from a friend at work for the purposes of building a canoe (which is something I've never done). The canoe is a graduation gift to our son who graduated from home school in 2008. Below are the forms on which the canoe was stripped up. These forms were cut out with a Ridgid jigs...