Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . FiG. 440. grained oak, elm, or ash can be used. An excellent way to make a canvas-covered canoe is shownin Fig. 441. The essential principle of this consists in havinga stiff gunwale, stiff keelson (inside the ribs), and ribs stoutand numerous enough to ensure a permanently strong andstiff framework without the assistance of the lengthwaysribbands. The outside is then sheathed with very thinstrips of basswood, pine, or any reasonably strong and light wood (perhaps -^ thick and 2or 3^ wide), fitting them carefullyto the shape, but without any a
Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . FiG. 440. grained oak, elm, or ash can be used. An excellent way to make a canvas-covered canoe is shownin Fig. 441. The essential principle of this consists in havinga stiff gunwale, stiff keelson (inside the ribs), and ribs stoutand numerous enough to ensure a permanently strong andstiff framework without the assistance of the lengthwaysribbands. The outside is then sheathed with very thinstrips of basswood, pine, or any reasonably strong and light wood (perhaps -^ thick and 2or 3^ wide), fitting them carefullyto the shape, but without any at-tempt to make water-tight this boat, which is complete inall respects except that of beingwater-tight, is then covered withcanvas as already described, the re-sult will be a strong, smooth boat, without the irregularities ofsurface which are a necessary feature of the unsheathed Fig. 441. 326 Wood-Working for Beginners This method is adopted in making canvas-covered canoesafter the model of the birch-bark canoe, and the result is anadmirable boat, which, while perhaps hardly equal to agenuine birch of Indian manufacture, is certainly thenext thing to it for an open paddling canoe. Of course, ifyou can work up your design after the model of a realbirch, you will have accomplished as much as you couldwish in this line—but to design and construct a good canoeupon the birch model is not an easy thing for the beginnerto do, and had best not be attempted until after consider-able experience in simpler and less graceful forms. Thismode of construction can well be applied, however, to acanoe of almost any type. The sheathing can be paintedand the canvas laid on the fresh paint. Another form of construction is to omit the keelson andfasten the frames and ribs directly to the top of the keel,having previously cut a rabbet for the canvas (as in case ofthe stem- and st
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