Picked up from Goose Bay Sawmill and Lumber in Chichester, NH today... here it is on the truck...
First impressions... 20' is really long... that 18' kayak is going to be long too! We are thinking at this stage that we have way too much cedar for the 2 kayaks... there may be enough left over to build another! We''ll see whether there is enough lumber and/or incentive after finishing the first 2!
There is a lot of prep work to do before we actually get down to building... in the last couple of weeks we have marked out, cut and sanded forms. Made blocks etc to mount them to the strongbacks and I am currently setting up an adjustable router table that will take 2 routers so that we can cut the bead and cove at the same time! This is close to finished but I got bogged down in a storage project for the machine shop. That involved a new router table stand and a new drill press stand, both with plenty of drawers in to get stuff out of the way.
For those, not in the know, here is a picture of the end of a bundle of 55 bead and cove cedar strips to be used in kayak/canoe construction. Each of those strips is 1/4" thick by 3/4" wide and somewhere between 12' and 20' long! This is how we could have purchased ours but at around $0.55 per foot it comes in at around $700 per kayak... we did both for that kind of price. But the downside is we are going to have to spend 2 or 3 days prepping our wood to get them into this state... and of course, I already had the table saw, 2 routers, router bits, planer etc... otherwise you could easily blow that $700 saving on tools... easily!
Excitement is mounting... chomping at the bit to get started on stripping but we still have at least a day, or two, of cutting strips and routing cove and beads on the edges.
John
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