Birchbark Canoe Making - Episode 1 - It Begins
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2020
- First episode of this birchbark canoe building series. All steps to building a canoe will be shown in this series. I will have a video up every week for the next weeks until the canoe is finished and I can try it out on the lake ! Hope you enjoy this series. Please check out last year's series on the spruce bark canoe if you require more information on some of the similar building steps.
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Wow, that's some thick bark! Fortunate to find one with the right qualities.
Thanks so much for documenting this. Helped build a 2 fathom Tete de Boule (fig 104, pg 112 Adney Tappan book) under the careful tutelage of Ferdy Goode in 1989. 141" long (11ft 8 in), 30" wide, 12" deep. 40lbs when dry dry. Years later, lost the headboard when transporting, although it was a tight tight fit. Goode spot to store valuables! Had to use four pcs for bottom bark. Very seaworthy hull, carries a weeks worth. Parted from the Adney Tete de Boule notes - I used cedar for all gunwhales, rather than white spruce, cherry thwarts vs white birch, and not the center thwart design for tumpline. There are as many ways to make a canoe as there are builders, as Ferd would say. Miigwech.
By four pieces for the bottom, do you mean they had to be overlapped and sewn together ? If so could you maybe explain how you went about it ?
Just a suggestion but if u bring a Coleman stove or something similar to heat water for your bark, when it's removed it will be much softer and not crack as much when it's rolled up or unrolled. Using a paint scraper is the hot ticket for lichen removal as well.
Wow!!! Our museum has several authentic birch bark canoes - two on display. Our displays aim to educate on the Fur Trade and summer transportation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The waves on Lake Superior were so big, the canoes had to be massive! Our collection contains a canoe possibly designed for a child, a fishing canoe, and a regular one used by the manager and president of Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Railway. Awesome video by the way, thanks for giving us an excuse to gush!
I’m reading DAVID THOMPSON; Travels in Western North America 1784-1812, ED. Victor G Hopwood. He briefly describes how the bark is cut from the trees but not how long it takes to build the canoe. I’m amazed at the strength and determination these men have in their travels through Canada. I’m enjoying seeing how it’s actually made.Thank you!
Keep in mind back then, a group of people or a whole family would work together to build a canoe. People were also very capable of working manually and with there hands / bodies. I am working on them part time, but working full time I bet a family could build one in a week or even a few days depending on the model, materials and size. It is truly interesting !
omg. I have that book too. Fascinating. Glad to know others have read it.
Beautiful work, A true craftsman. Enjoy it !!
I was always taught that it was a made by the Abernathy Indian that they were tour guides and Southern Canada over in the East Coast and New York That was I was always brought up that that is who made the first Birch nut birchwood canoes Maybe I'm wrong but that's I used to have information that tells about it the last name of the couple of the members that tribe was Sabattus
Wow, great project it’s going to look awesome.
That is so sweet, I’d love the build one of those ! Nice job man, very well done 👍
Thanks 👍
You defenitely know what you're doing. It is very interesting to watch you working.
Thank you !
its entertaining to watch you build our canoes
Thank you Wayne !
Nice build 👍
Thanks 👍
Thank you for the share! I was to create some canoes in Blender and the level of details you just provide me are freaking awesome!🙏👍😊
You're very welcome! Enjoy I have a whole series on this particular canoe total of 7 longer videos ! I am also starting a new canoe and just posted some videos on some parts and details I omitted to show in this particular series. So I just posted a video on the gunwale frame and thwarts as well as a video on the stempieces when I bent them and lashed them together. Different styles of canoe but the techniques overlap of course. I also have a video series on a more rugged spruce bark canoe I made ! :) Feel free to share and subscribe.
@@NomadicWoodsman Je viens de réaliser que t'es québécois... J'ai bingé 4 vidéos avant de visiter ta page YT. Bref, je suis à modéliser exactement le même type de canoe algonquien et ton travail m'épargne des heures de recherche. J'ai aussi deux autres type canoes à reproduire d'origine huronne-wendat et montagnaise. Merci bcp!👍🙏
@@michelrochette3066 Super ! Oui mon canot ici est basé principalement sur un canot hunter atikamekw de 9 pieds. Cependant je l'ai un peu adapté à mon gout personnel et il a des caractéristique bien sur du wabanaki tchiman algonquin principalement. Je travail maintenant sur un algonquin old style, donc avec les étraves plus remontés. J'apprend également en les fabricant !
@@NomadicWoodsman Cool! Oui, j'ai vu qu'il y a un autre canot en chantier. Je travaille présentement sur le hybride de la page 117 (fig. 109, The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America, ed.1964).
You don't know what you canoe until you're birching about the lashing. Some of a pitch that's sprucing up nicely.
Man just came across your channel there eh! just subscribed love this stuff have watched others do it seems like you have made it simpler I'm in New Brunswick Canada have a channel planning on building a log cabin, when I'm done want to try to build a canoe will check out all your vids... thanks for sharing
Awesome, thank you! hope you enjoy the videos. I am just finishing another birchbark canoe right now and putting up some videos as I go of the building process. Goose hunting starting as well so will have a few hunting videos too soon.
Hello Denis .. I'm also in NB, are you still planning on trying to build a BB Canoe ?
@@charlesleblanc6638 not for a while yet... planning on starting my log cabin build this spring... when my cabin is all finished before retirement fingers crossed in about 4.5 years... after my place is situated planning on making projects then... check out my youtube channel and let me know what u think... Thanks for commenting
@@denislosieroutdoors Big project for sure building a log cabin, I'm planning to start a spring project as well ... BB Canoe. Can I ask which part of NB your in ? We might be neighbors !! I'm in Taylor Village.
@charlesleblanc6638 I love in saint john my property is in grandbay Taylor village where abouts is that at?
Denis
Damn nice!!!
Hope you enjoy the series ! This canoe turned out nice. Hoping to build another one here next summer once I can get fresh bark for the hull. Regards ! Steve
Nice 👍
Thanks ✌ !!
Man that leatherman really tore up those pegs , terrible tool for that.
I got my rowboat's paddle's on sale. It was quite an oar deal!
easier to cut bark on 45 degree angle then 90 degrees All cuts are cut on angle except for top of gunwales which are trimmed flat
That is true, I am learning ! Thank you for your tips man !
I enjoy the channel bro , that's a cool skill I have a ton of big birch trees on my cabin property in N Mn .
That's awesome, in northern Maine ? I always dreamed of gathering some beautiful rolls over there. I don't know if I could cross the border with the bark though. Maine and New Brunswick areas are the best for bark from what I heard.
@@NomadicWoodsman He meant Minnesota. MN is the official US postal abbreviation.
@@paulbriggs3072 oh ok thanks !! Canadian here apologies :).
The wonder if you could just take your bark to the carwash and blast that bark off the birch
Tout qu'un projet !
I been wanting a canoe for a while but I'm broke as hell but I live near the mountains in New Mexico and we have tons of berch trees and if they are dead you are legally allowed to use the wood for fires I don't see the difference of me going and getting some bark off the fallen ones since berch bark stays good for a while after it's fallen thanks for making this video I'm definitely going to give it a try
soak it first it will be good
I have no way of knowing this first hand but According to history I’ve read,..only Birch bark from trees east of the Rockies will be thick and durable enough to use for canoes.
Super et bien intéressant, merci ! Sans doute qu'avec un couteau d'ébéniste/sculpture de bois, un ciseau à bois bien solide et aiguisé (forme incurvée telle une banane), comme on s'en servait dans l'ancien temps de nos grand-parents - certains se tenant aussi par les deux bouts -, aurait facilité la tâche plutôt qu'un exacto ou une mini-scie.
tas des photos des outils que tu parles ?
@@aveclapointe9447 Fais une recherche sur "Ciseau à bois incurvé", ou encore "plane de sculpteur". En réponse, j'ai tenté de publier des liens sur un autre clip intitulé _"César et son canot d'écorce"_ et qui en montre l'utilisation, via la technique amérindienne ancestrale permettant de construire un canot dont ce type est de leur invention... Mais ils furent supprimés (peut-être parce que justement, je publiais des liens vers un autre clip, et que c'est considéré telle une "compétition" par l'auteur de ce clip).
Cool build Nomad. What's the overall length and what style you going for?
it is going to be a small 10 foot canoe. Based off of a têtes de boule 1 1/2 fathom canoe fig.102 of Tappan Adney's book. It will be a bit of a maliseet style as well with the wuglessis (bark covers on both stems). :)
Really fascinating to watch how you build and how you use boiling water. Would a stronger heavier knife work better? 👍
I have tried alot of different knives, it seems like the bark is just too thick. A saw would be what would work best. Some sort of power saw. But with patience a knife works and is quite precise. You need to follow the shape nicely too. Thanks !
@@NomadicWoodsman it sure was thick bark. The look of it reminded me of rawhide. I'm looking forward to seeing the next part of this build. It's really fascinating and you have narrated it beautifully. 👍
Whattt? That is amazing. How many hours did you put into this canoe?
Thanks ... according to my wife way too many ! haha probably around 300 hours maybe 400 if you include all the research and prep work.
What happens to the barked tree? does he die?
I am wondering what you mean by winter bark? As i understand it that it is typically harvested in June.
ok...i should just watch it all first before i ask dumb questions
Winter bark is before the leaves are out or as they are opening. The summer bark is during the summer months when leaves are big and open. Winter bark you can do the designs by scratching off that layer on it. Hope this helps ! Regards, Steve
Hello. Where can i get the high detailed instructions for this type of birch bark canoe. Thanks.
Buy the book, Birchbark canoes and skin boats of north america by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard I. Chappelle. Instructions are all in there. Also search for videos and documentaries to gain as much knowledge as you can.
@@NomadicWoodsman hello Steve .. I see you have another patient with the "Canoe Flu" lol ! I'm still at it, but can only work on certain parts in the winter, but should hopefully be ready to start this spring. Hope all is well
Charles
Looking awesome brother! Much respect! Perhaps you should consider an easier hobby 😂
Maybe one day! Fow now, loving the challenge :) Thanks man !
whats a double harness stitch? do u mean Saddle Stitch?
Yes I believe they are called a saddle stitch as well. go through the same hole in and out basicly.
Других способов нет? Лестницы никто не отменял!!!!!
I am trying and failing to understand why you cut the Birch down. You can readily harvest bark from a living tree.
Living tree??? So you're going to climb 7 meters up a living tree and peel all the way around to attain the necessary thickness of usable bark for the build? You're gonna DIE. You're going to bring into the forest a ladder, heavy rope, climbing harness, safety lanyard, safety tie off higher in the tree. And also, after you peel the deep inner bark, dead bark, live bark, then the (cambium) 3rd layer, then sap wood. By the time you get what you need,.. you have stripped the tree to certain death. You can only harvest the outer layers of bark to make certain instruments without killing the tree. Indigenous peoples harvest the tree, but also sprinkle tobacco, and offer a prayer in thanks for the life spirit that they take. In the far northwest, they only take portions of the giant trees, so as to not cause permanent damage to the sacred giants. A gift from the Sacred Creator.
@@larrymbouche Point taken.
Зачем губить дерево?
Good job, bonne ouvrage. (I see there is some language bickering going on. lol. Je vois qu'il a de la chicanne a cause des langues rtf)
Wish you could have visited or helped with some of the steps ! Hoping you and family are well ! Merci du commentaire Marcel !
Ray mears sent me here but its just not the same.
You can't get better than Ray Mears, he's awesome.
To be honest, some commentary -even dubbed in later would be useful, such as" You have to be careful when peeling the park not to .....whatever etc." Very good otherwise.
Thank you ! That is true, I agree, unfortunately my laziness sometimes gets the best of me for edits. But I do agree 100%. Thanks for watching ! Steve
Tu devrais parler plus français
Or Italian, or Spanish, or Portuguese.. 🇮🇹, 🇪🇸, 🇧🇷 ... 😁
J'essaie de parlé un peu français temps en temp ! Quelques nouvelles vidéos en français seraient dû je crois !
Nomadic Woodsman Italian is very close to French . I could understand almost everything but I got lost on the very end! French is such a beautiful language!
en fait ya tellement peu de documentation en français tu gagnerai d'en laisser et ca aiderait aux archives itoo :)