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    NEW BUILD QUESTION

    Put a strip of masking tape on the center of the line you plan on cutting. Draw your line on it. (if your cutting instrument is biting on the up stroke...ie. circular saw, or jig saw) (if table saw - put the tape on bottom side because it bits on the down stroke) The tape seems to hold all those...
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    New with lots of ????

    The first pirogue I made only saw the rain water in the back yard, and I never finished it before I threw it out the shop door and started over. Just wished I would have chunked it $50.00 of epoxy earlier. That night I started over and when I finished, I had built a beautiful pirogue. It doesn't...
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    Spokeshaves

    Re: Sokeshaves I went to the Woodcraft web sit. I didn't see the block planes in convex or concave, but they did have all the scrapers and the carbide blade scrapers in flat, convex, and concave.
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    Spokeshaves

    Re: Sokeshaves Harbor Freight has a cheep one ( that's what I have ), it comes with multiple blades, flat, convex, and concave. The only problem is they are small, like 1.5 inchs wide. But they do hold an edge well and work fine. Go on line and look up a store called Woodcraft, they carry the...
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    Spokeshaves

    Re: Sokeshaves I run the curved one over some fine emery cloth then on my wet stone. The flat blades that go in the draw handle ( like the scraper you get from Lowe's ) are cheep enough to discard and replace.
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    Spokeshaves

    Re: Sokeshaves Cabinet scrapers are great to have around. You can get different shaped blades for then or even custom make your own. They do fast work of drips and runs too. I use mine for a lot of pre-sanding work, saves on time and paper. You will be surprised how many times you will reach...
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    Spokeshaves

    Re: Sokeshaves I can't comment on the others, but my Stanley has never given me any headaches. It works great and the blade is easy enough to remove for honing, and replacing. It holds an edge nicely and is simple to adjust. Mine is for shaving on the flat. They also make a convex and concave...
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    New guy questions.

    I didn't discover the UJ pirogue kit till after I started building, I just did what I saw my dad do, and what I had seen already built. If I had known of the UJ kit I probably would had gotten one on my first build. I like wood work and just cut my own frames and stems. To get that 30" wide...
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    New guy questions.

    Welcome to the addiction. Read through the post a couple down the page form yours with the title, ' a full house ' You may find it somewhat useful.
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    SS@G Northwind

    That's one of them bottoms that your gonna need a stick on board to bite down on so you don’t crack a tooth when ya run across some rocks. She sure is looken sweet.
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    a full house...

    Ya might wanna look at JEM's -'mini skiff ', or Uncle John's ' bayou skiff '. Their links are on southern paddler's home page. And ol' sparkey has a whole post of his build of the bayou skiff.
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    round are hard chined hulls.

    I checked the canoecraft book and he says, flat bottom has the greatest initial stability when you sit still in flat water due to the greater wetted surface, BUT he only recommended using it for cargo purposes not recreation use. Try telling that to a bunch of piroguers. :twisted: But it...
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    round are hard chined hulls.

    I've heard it the other way. A flat bottom with hard chine had less initial stability, because it doesn't stiffen up until the chine is forced down and the flare in the side creates a greater amount of volume at the water line. And a round bottom sits deeper but with almost plumb sides it is...
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    a full house...

    I built a pirogue for a man that weighted in at 340#, he wanted it for fishing in big ponds because he didn't like walking around the bank. Said it made him tired, :? Then it wasn't fun fishing anymore. He didn't want to fall out or fall through either, and wanted to be able to carry it by...
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    duralux paint?

    Doesn't look like anyone is 'fessing up to it. Its marine paint. Follow the directions and give us a full report on it. Then next year tell us how its holding up.