The Cedar Strip canoe, or Stripper, is often as not, a home canoe construction project.
With common woodworking tools, readily available materials and plans, and lots of
time and patience, you can build your own beautiful wood strip canoe.
The Cedar Strip canoe, or Stripper, is often as not, a home canoe construction project.
With common woodworking tools, readily available materials and plans, and lots of
time and patience, you can build your own beautiful wood strip canoe.
The contruction details in a cedar strip canoe can be quite complex and difficult,
as shown here in a Wood Song Canoes' sliding seat arrangement.
For those of you not daring or talented enough to try this on your own, there
are many WCHA members listed in the Builders Directory
who make their living turning out beautiful cedar strip canoes, like this Wee Lassie
from Feather Canoes.
The basic design of the cedar strip canoe is a sandwich of fiberglass cloth and
epoxy resin surrounding a core of thinly sawn cedar strips that are glued together
over stations on a strongback. Excellent instruction can be found in books available from the
WCHA Merchandise department, or from your local book
store. An example of what you can build, is on the cover of Ted Moores excellent book,
Canoecraft.