Building the Petrel strip built sea kayak. Showing the process from raw sticks of wood to completed kayak. Plans available at: www.guillemot-... Support these videos on Patreon: / nickschade
I always so enjoy watching your videos. In nearly 50 years of avid kayaking, this is quite probably the most elegant kayak I have ever seen. Your craftsmanship, attention to details, and exquisite rigging, is among the very best on our planet!
Man, you gotta to be so precise at every single step! I don't think I could manage it. The slightest mistake will eventually compound and throw the whole thing off. And you wouldn't even know it until you are finished.
Generally, there are a lot of chances to double check your work before you are finished. While you do need to pay attention, it is just one-step-at-a-time until it's done.
Hey Nick, I can’t see it in any of the other comments so I just had to congratulate you on, besides your obvious craftsmanship, how it particularly tickled me how you took the time to edit the video and soundtrack to it so that the staples fired and the tape ripped to the beat of the lovely music you added - Nice touch. Lovely stuff 😉🙌
Sharp tools are the key to easy and enjoyable woodworking. Learning to sharpen your tools is a great investment in time and will make everything after that better.
I love watching this creative endeavor. I have experimented with cutting strips, routing the cove and bead and building small test glue ups. I am still intimidated by the sheer length of time required and the risk of making some catastrophic error that would ruin all that work! I guess if you are not ready to climb mount everest then don't climb mount everest. I will get there eventually! still trying to find long lengths of cedar to avoid having to join smaller lengths. Perhaps you address that in one or more of your vids!
The way to climb Mt Everest is to start at sea level and take a step up the beach, then take another step. The odds of catastrophic failure are minimal. The chances of making a mistake that requires you to think and do some problem solving are high. It is actually this kind of mistake that makes the project fun and worthwhile because that is where you really start to learn.
What a beauty.......what a beauty...........good on you.......Anything else I would say, just wouldn't be enough to describe all my thoughts.........may Good bless you
Thank you for creating this beautiful and informative video. Can you tell us about the plane you're using and it's purpose at 4:06 minutes in the video ?
That is a Stanley #79 Side Rabbet Plane. I am adjusting the bevel of the strips at the chine to make a tight joint where the Cover & Bead strip won't make the turn.
Beautiful work, Nick. Did you use 2 layers of 4 oz glass on the outside hull and deck and one layer inside? I'm thinking that's a better move than a single layer of 6 oz.
Where can I get info on the tool you were using at 22:17 (long board?)? I could use that on my current (and first) kayak build, especially with the vacuum attached.
I discuss building without staples on my microBootlegger Build. That starts with this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XX3MLuZgW6I.html
I really wanted to see how you cut the deck off the hull and how you took the form out but that got skipped over. Do you have any other video of that process ?
@@jonlaughton7689 Correct. While all the other strips are glued together, I just don't glue between the first strip on the deck and the first on the hull. So, once the staples are pulled the deck or hull can just be lifted off. Amazing boring isn't it?
I believe you just need to go to his website, which is listed in the bottom right throughout the video. I'm not sure if you would need a VPN with current world affairs though.
