Journey of Woodstrip Canoe Building

@Shem @Donovan You asked for it so here it is.

Very cool!

@Appalachian Thanks man.

Ummmmm, that’s so purty I dropped my crayons. Serious skills right there man.

@Mike 🖍 💥😱😂😂😂

@Tom 🤡

that is a work of art

@Adam thanks Adam your too kind.

@Tom that is absolutely beautiful and amazing my hats off to you Sir just WOW , plus the canning of the seats is an art all it’s own too ! That is definitely gonna be a beautiful heirloom ! Tom you da man !☕️🤠🤙🏼☀️🦦🐿🦌🐺🚣🏼‍♀️🌲🏕🐌🦝🦅🍂🦊🐛🐝🦆🐞🦡🦉🍃🐇🦨🐢

That is the most beautiful canoe I have ever seen. Amazing wood work Tom. @Danny check this out.

Beautiful work, Tom! Looks like a pretty spot to use it too.

@Shem thanks brother that means a lot. The hard part now is finding the time to take it out.

@Larry thank you. we have 3 slow moving rivers in the county that we go out on. I hope to get out more this summer.

@Brad we all have our gifts. It isn’t all that hard one step at a time.

Wow! Thats awesome work

@Danny thanks. I have been admiring your turnings. Keep up the good work.

@Tom Thank you very much. It’s therapeutic 😉

“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin

@Joe BF was was wise man.

I remember watching my cousins journey unfold while he built hisit was amazing!! Beautiful job

Such an incredible story and a beautiful work of art. That's so awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful job well done 👍

@Tiffany thank you

@Derek thanks buddy. Now to get a bit more time on the water with it

@Jeffrey I appreciate the kind words. 👊

Who’s the naked dude in the boat?

@Donovan 🤣🤣🤣🤣@Chris

@Donovan we belong to the Au Naturel Canoe Club a very short season in the north country. Looking for new chapters throughout the country. You could start one in KY. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Tom 😆 no I couldn’t

Beautiful craftsmanship. Love the thought and detail in selecting the wood and placements. I’d be too scared to use it!

Very cool 🛶 Nice work!

Thanks @Arica sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith and see where it takes you. 😳😜

Thanks @Jamie I appreciate it.

WOW, what a Beautiful, Beautiful, Canoe.

Exceptional Job...... been canoeing my whole life, this is really beautiful. What a great job. Again, 😳

@Butch Thanks and I don’t think anyone ever welcomed you properly. Welcome to the GoWild family Butch. What part of texas do you call home. I went to grad school at UTArlington.

Allen, Texas. Just North of Dallas

I’ve got relatives in Carollton and watch the FCS football championships in Frisco NDSU has had a good run there and that’s where I went to undergraduate school. Again welcome to GoWild.

@Butch ☝️

Top notch Tom👍🏻

@Justin thanks I appreciate that.

@Tom that canoe is beautiful!

@Jacob thanks. It’s really just lightning and filters😜

Wow

@Stephen thanks man.

How awesome! Great work! I do war between the states reenactments and I'm a member of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans. I had to stop doing any reenactments because of surgeries 10 years ago. I'm starting to get back into it limited. I'm getting ready to build boxes for my equipment, but I want to shipboard the laps a make them period correct as possible. I've got some tools, but not everything I'd like to have, but will make do with my budget. My son says to just put it together but yet he's building lanterns, chairs,and tables that could be used for that time period lol. It won't be as beautiful as your canoe, that is just spell binding. My son says i carry to much gear when we go camping or hunting. I tell him I'm not in my 20s anymore like him. Lol I told him in my teens and twenties I'd carry a blanket, tarp, fishing pole, and small cooler 😎. Ain't that way nowadays 😅. Keep up the great work friend, can't wait to see what you come up with next.

@David thanks so much for your kind words. Hope you can get back to what you enjoy. Once in a while some good shop equipment will come available at estate sales or local auctions. May be able to add to your tool collection without spending too much. You can do a lot with a table saw and some imagination. Have fun. Looking forward to your posts.

Wow this is beautiful!

My family build cedar strip canoes for several years as a business until the demand got to great for us to keep up with. Yours is beautiful. And they are heavenly to glide through the water with. Very nicely done.

@Leif thanks so much that means a lot coming from someone that understands the craftsmanship that goes into such a craft.

That is really beautiful Tom! How much does your boat weight?

@John I’ve never put it on a scale but would guess about 75#. About the same as an Old Town Discovery 174 I have.

I have a Old Town 175 good boat.

Not as heavy as I would have thought.

@John the wood strips are only 1/4” thick and then it’s fiberglassed both sides.

That’s a work of art, the story of the wood and how it matured makes it all the better.

Beautiful...

Dude, that’s a spectacular piece of work. And a very very well thought out present from your wife buddy. Very cool post

@Ferg thanks man. Hope all is well with you.

That is a work of art!

@John thanks man. I appreciate that. It was a labor of love.

You have been blessed with great talent. Nice work!

@Tom getting there man, getting there