Here are some EPIC projects that other people have made. Hope these inspire you to go out and create something of your own.
Make your own canoe paddle
Make your own canoe paddle - Martha Stewart and Nick Offerman
Nick makes this paddle using a solid piece of wood.
Nick makes this paddle using a solid piece of wood.
How to make a paddle (A Guy Doing Stuff - Youtube)
This paddle is made by glueing strips together to create a larger board. This method looks really cool when you use contrasting pieces of wood.
This paddle is made by glueing strips together to create a larger board. This method looks really cool when you use contrasting pieces of wood.
Cedar WoodCraft Paddle (Trustin Timber - Youtube)
If you want to save a bit of money or connect more with nature and harvest you own materials you can be like this guy and make a canoe paddle the old fashioned way. All you need is some hand tool and a bit of hard work and determination.
If you want to save a bit of money or connect more with nature and harvest you own materials you can be like this guy and make a canoe paddle the old fashioned way. All you need is some hand tool and a bit of hard work and determination.
Build a Canoe
Birth of a Dugout Canoe (Northmen - Youtube)
Building a Cedar Strip Canoe (A Guy Doing Stuff - Youtube)
Diresta Canoe Build (jimmydiresta - Youtube)
Birch Bark Canoe Documentary
Here in this video Grant Goltz and his friends built a traditional Ojibwe Birch Bark Canoe from start to finish.
Here in this video Grant Goltz and his friends built a traditional Ojibwe Birch Bark Canoe from start to finish.
Northwest Coast Indian Canoe Legacy Project
Executive Productions-Seattle produced a series of 11 videos for the Jayhawk Institute describing how to make a traditional Northwest Coast Indian Canoe from a cedar tree or log. The Canoe Legacy Project provides insights into both traditional and modern techniques of how to shape, carve and steam (spread) the cedar log into an elegant seaworthy canoe. A Salish style canoe, typically used on the quiet waters of The Salish Sea (incl. Puget Sound) was chosen for the project.
To see all the videos open up this video in a separate tab or window on Youtube and you will be able to see the entire playlist showing all the steps for how this amazing canoe was made.
Executive Productions-Seattle produced a series of 11 videos for the Jayhawk Institute describing how to make a traditional Northwest Coast Indian Canoe from a cedar tree or log. The Canoe Legacy Project provides insights into both traditional and modern techniques of how to shape, carve and steam (spread) the cedar log into an elegant seaworthy canoe. A Salish style canoe, typically used on the quiet waters of The Salish Sea (incl. Puget Sound) was chosen for the project.
To see all the videos open up this video in a separate tab or window on Youtube and you will be able to see the entire playlist showing all the steps for how this amazing canoe was made.
Drum Making
How to make a Coast Salish Drum: Jorge Lewis Drum Maker
Weaving Cedar Bark
Cedar Basket Weaving with Brenda Crabtree - Urban Access Project (Emily Carr University - Youtube)
Story of Cedar, Cedar Hat Weaving and Bark Pulling Cowichan Coast Salish
Making a Lacrosse Stick
The Stickmaker - Alf Jaques "UNSTRUNG" Hand make wood lacrosse sticks
3 Forms of Lacrosse - A Quick History as Told by Jim Calder