Birchbark Canoe Making - Episode 5 - Gumming and Inserting Ribs Permanently
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- Spruce gum pitch melting and filtering method. I then proceed to seal and waterproof the inside seams and holes inside the canoe hull. I then proceed to insert the ribs and sheathing. After trimming the ribs to exact sizing each rib is carefully inserted and hammered in place. I also show how to insert one of the headboards. The canoe is now a real canoe or boat. It has now it's shape and structure with the ribs and sheathing it is now very solid.
Please share this video to anyone who may be interested in old building methods. Or if you know anyone who would want to learn how to make a bark canoe.
Wow! You were right! This part of the process really made the canoe look awesome! Its cool how the hot water and your strength made the ribs fit so perfect! The process for the sealing of the canoe had me amazed! I would of never thought the burlap would of worked as well as it did and I understand now why you had to use the lard to keep it from harding to fast. Another great video to add to your series! It definitely makes me appreciate how canoes were made originally! Thanks again for all the hard work your doing to put this build together and sharing it on TH-cam! looking forward to the next one!
Rick From Virginia
putting shavings in ends retains water, make sure sheathing goes to end and a tight fitting manboard
Lookin good bud. That last rib and the head boards looked tough. I was holding my breath , lol.
As far as using different animal fats, be careful about bear fat.
Bears are cannibals and can smell bear fat miles away.
Not the kind of company you want in a canoe camp.
Love your videos by the way.
Definitely a work of love, but think I will build mine from strips of wood and resign over top of them
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C'est une étape vraiment plaisante à réaliser. La mise à l'eau approche!!!
Oui, c'est vraiment une belle étape. Après ça, c'est enfin un bateau ! Je suis heureux que tu a pu assister à cette étape, qui se réalise tellement mieux à deux en plus.
@@NomadicWoodsman Ce fut un plaisir pour moi d'y participer.
malgré la traduction google, je ne trouve pas ce que vous avez mélangé de couleur blanc pâteuse dans certainement de la résine d'épinette pourriez vous me dire en français les ingrédients mes remerciements karima
C'est bien ça la gomme d'épinette. La pâte blanche est une graisse ou corps gras. C'est du lard (genre tenderflake), il faut mettre 2-3 cuillere a soupe de gras pour mélanger avec la gomme d'épinette, le gras donne la flexibité / pliabilité à la gomme. On peut utiliser du beurre, ou de la graisse de bacon aussi. Traditionellement c'était du gras d'animal, soit gras d'ours, baleine, castor, outarde ou autre gras.
how long would the canoe in the 1600s take to make and what processes were employed that differ from this make?
It would take a month or two, could be done in a couple weeks if alot of people are working on the canoe at same time. Women would usually work on the lashings while men could prepare other pieces. I would say work would have been done with knife, axe, etc. Metal tools after european contact accelerated the process. It is hard to know what canoes looked like before metal tools were used. There is archeological evidence of first nations using canoes for thousands of years though, they accessed various islands and had camps all along waterways. I know beaver tooth knives, stone knives, etc, would be used to build.
Back in those days a Woodland native would give a lot for a crooked knife.
Wonderful tool. Ask any farrier.
est ce de la résine de sapin ou autre arbres ? cordialement karima
Gomme ou sève d'épinette blanche. Picea Glauca est le nom latin de l'arbre.
You don't use charcoal mixed in the gum.
Any reason ?
Works well without it. According to some research some first nations(maliseet in particular) didn't use any charcoal mixed in. I like the clear looking resin look too. Just my preference :) Thanks for watching !
@@NomadicWoodsman they used cedar ash
What ratio of sap to lard did you use?
about 1 tablesppon or 2 for a large coffee can amunt of non filtered gum... so about the full big pan, 2 tablespoons. More or less. You test and add more lard if still glassy/cracky.
Did I miss the part on how to cut and fit the sheathing ?
Love your videos by the way !
Thanks ! I did a video on it called 'splitting cedar log for canoe sheathing' or something like that It is usually a 5 foot cedar log with straight grain and you split it paper thin like in my video. And then you simply plan it down if there is a thicker end on your thin boards. Hope this helps ! Steve