How To Make Snowshoes
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- How To Make Snowshoes woodworking video by Chop With Chris details the design and construction of snowshoes including wood steaming, leather weaving, and assembly. These can be used for fun or survival. Be sure to watch these related videos:
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Might be the best video ever! Your average youtuber would've made that video 1 hour long. Thank you for valuing our time.
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Absolutely awesome! It's cool that you're not afraid to show any setbacks that you encounter along the way. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Awesome as always! Loved your steaming chamber! Man I really enjoy your videos!
Thanks my friend.
Great video! Love watching all your projects. You make it look so easy!
It was brutal on the fingers.
Really loved this Chris, especially how the music stops when you run into a problem, AND record and play it, to show problems do arise in reality. So well done. The mind of man is fascinating in terms of passing on and teaching one another. The music was awesome btw, a real taste of home for me...pn...Ireland ♥
+Paddy Ninja Thanks so much. My ancestors are from County Kerry!
No way, I lived up the road a bit in County Clare. It's a small world : )
Great project! That steamer log was a nice touch to.
Thanks. Necessity is the mother of invention.
Great stuff! Well done.
+Neil Barker thanks.
Gitting - ER - Done the Old Fashioned way and way better than store bought.
No doubt
This video is amazing! Thank you for sharing the whole process
You are most welcome!
Chris, you are a madman! Patience is definitely one of your virtues!
Well I edit out all the bad words I say over the course of a project.
Amazing craftsmanship!
+Chaz Weisbeck Thanks.
Cool job. The locals here use ash for the frame, rawhide for the weave and then shellac everything. In fact they put a new coat of shellac on them every year. I have a friend that has a usable pair from the 1930s. Put away carefully and shellacked every year.
Thanks for the advise. I need to shellac them.
Top notch!
Thanks
Used snowshoes alot in my youth. It IS hard to get back up the first time you fall. That was very neat to watch. I like the hand tools only approach you use. Thanks Chris.
+Sean C I felt like a beetle on its back!
Awesome, Chris!
Thanks
Really cool!
+butitssummerma Thanks again.
Can't wait for the next video!
Just you know the video is already on my channel called How To Build A Dogsled
luv ur skills, amazing, back to basic skills people forgot these days...
+KaalTrikaal Thanks
love your steam box, lol
+christophe leblanc Thanks
You always have fun and it it awesome to see good sir!
+amstaff3379 Well thank you very much. More to come b
That was great!
+Ron Johnson Outdoors Thanks
Those are awesome! Well done, really enjoyed the video!
You are most welcome.
Братка ты красава!👍👍👍
Nice job Chris !
Thanks.
Super cool. Nice job.
Thanks
good one!
Thanks
Super Cool. You did say no electrical power tools but you have electric work lights on which gotta count as a tool to help you see better so I give it a 9/10 haha better fire up a lantern next time.
Ah but I peddled a bike for 3 hours to charge a battery to run the lights and camera…😄
very coool!
Thanks!
Awesome work, glad you didn't editing out the broken first attempt and the snapped leather stripe.
+Jon Wen I thought you might like that.
Nice work as usual!
Thanks
Hahaha Swallowtail Jig is one of my favorite fiddle tunes
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You have all my respect sir. Very nice work.
Dimitri
Merci
Great work! They look good. Where did you find your information to make them? I am researching snowshoes for an upcoming exhibit at the museum I am interning at and am struggling to find enough info. Thanks!
I had similar issues. I basically looked at pictures and then used my basic woodworking knowledge to stumble through it. Email me at chopwithchris@gmail.com to discuss in more detail.
nice fam keep it up
+Mary Quiroga Thanks
I love it :)
+TheDIYMaster Thank you.
Chop With Chris no problem
superlative as usual
Thanks.
just subbed. that was awesome
Thanks and welcome to my channel
Nice work Chris !!! Thanks !!
A bientôt !
Stéphane
Great.
just amazing! ok maybe we dont have so much snow here in hellas but it's amazing that you can make so mumany things with wood steam leather and ..uuuuh i will tell it in hellenic "μερακι"...
+Christos Lymbikis Thanks. I have been to Greece 4 times - amazingly beautiful country!
great job Chris. Videos are looking great, and the shots are getting better every time. Nothing beats natural lighting for video though.
Thanks.
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Totally enjoyed : ) Hi from Ireland... No need for Snowshoes here usually...... until tonight... expecting blizzard... so have to make a set in next 4 hours....
too bad it takes 20 hours to make
Wish I was there to enjoy the snow.
Extremely nifty as always. Bet the people traveling that highway had a good chuckle. lol
I was waiting for a trooper to pull up!
your videos are always so cool
Thanks. More to come.
You're an animal. It's very cool to watch you work, awesome video and project.
Thanks.
your hell,VE a craftsman my friend
+heath conley Thanks
Chris, great video as usual. I've noticed that your latter videos are mostly high speed shots. I do miss seeing some of the real time stuff. Not knocking your wonderful, great quality stuff. Keep me coming.
+Scott Elliott I guess I go in and out of them. More to come for sure. For snowshoes I will likely do a slow version in the Fall. I do appreciate the comments.
Thanks. I do love your videos. Great craftsman!
+Scott Elliott Thanks.
+Chop With Chris No problem
nice work
+张俊 Thanks
you build a steamer just for that project??? Thats what I call dedication! impressive as always
Maybe I'll do that.
that was cool chris!! i was gonna ask how easy does the wood bend after its been steamed and ready is it real flexible or do you have to inch it little by little. thanks bro as always GREAT STUFF CANT WAIT TO SEE THE SLED VID
The sled video is already posted. Little by little
Nice Job Chris. I would love to come and take some of those logs off your hands....lol.
+Miter Mike's Woodshop I got a great wood lot know doubt!
Hey Chris, so glad to see you again, nice job on the snowshoes, those can last a long long time if properly maintained. It sucks that this winter where i'm at, we barely had any snow at all, couldn't use mine :( Keep it up my friend :)
Merci!
+Chop With Chris Thanks for saying thank you in my first language, wondering how you found that out. Much appreciated Chris. Looking forward to your next projects. Keep it up :)
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Well done. I like the frame you made but I would have used rawhide for the webbing. Soak it, strap it, and then finish with some type of varnish once it is dry. Leather will take on water and turn soft when wet. You will start to sink in the snow.
+MascotAL Yes. Rawhide would be much better. Just hard to find for me.
You can buy it on a spool from tandy online.
I can hook you up. I have steer hide and green deer skins. good video dude
How about using nylon for webbing?
I too love the hollow-log steamer. I think rawhide would serve you better than tanned leather. Harder to come by, I'm sure.
Very true. Rawhide is a better application but not readily available.
When I said on one of my latest projects that I hand sanded my piece for 8 hours people called me nuts. What did you get for 8 hours of weaving?? :) beautifully done, and a pretty useful item, should you be living in a snowy area :)
I wish I did.
Hi Chris, I know with the right wood and just with your hand tools, you could even make a greater traditional pair of snowshoes, with my book. Leaving Tracks: A Maine Tradition, on how to make them with rawhide and brown ash tree. Iive been doing snowshoes and baskets for over 45 years.
You certainly are the expert.
What kind of leather did you use?
I bought it at a leather store so not sure. Ideally I would have used rawhide.
Love it, I think I will copy your design for that sawhorse :) What was the name music please ?
The saw house has its own video on my channel called How To Build A Workbench. The song is called Haste to the wedding/Monoghan Jig.
Thanks I'll check that out :)
I do not have a froe... what could be used instead? Maybe a long blade knife?
Or a hatchet.
love watching your videos with that first one you did you should have thinned the toe and it wouldnt have snapped cool video though
True that. I thinned the toe on the 2nd try.
still learning from mistakes, I see. Nice set of snowshoes. How many iterations do you suppose the original craftsman went through to get a working set?
Centuries.
i WISH I COULD FOLLOW THE WEAVE PATTERN.
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Looking at that steamer, I bet you could make a killer still...
+Maxid1 Not happening :)
Chop With Chris
Yeah I gathered that but there are other uses for grain alcohol other than drinking. Due to decades of alcoholism and its' associated brain damage I can't think of any, but I'm sure there are some....
March isn't too late for this video if you happen to live in a place that has snow till June. I don't live in such a place, but I know they exist.
+Maxid1 True
Power tools were designed to make life easier, but some "Wood Butchers" just love to ole methods. Each will get you there. But when a man has a Full on wood shop and chooses to do everything the hard way. I call Bill Engvall and ask him to make them a "Sign".
I wish I understood
Should of made them a little longer imho about 8 inches longer should be your foot to mid thigh in length
+LilFluffBall I agree. I just didn't have a long enough price of wood.
If my great grandfather was alive he would ask why are you doing it the way my dad did
For the challenge. For the reward.
Good job I don’t have the patience to do that
your a stand up guy...lol
Thanks!
@@ChopWithChris also it is nice to see young people these days not afraid to get their hands dirty and your projects are both very interesting and motivating. The fact you use all tools of yester year is amazing...my hat is off too you...NICE JOB WELL DONE
Why did you waste the walnut wood making the work bench? You could have made something fancier than that...
I can't argue with you. I had a lot of it so I used it.
Faccio prima a comprarle
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too complex I'm looking for an easier formula
+The Ole Well I guess you can try your own.
8 hours for weaving.......Not sure I can concentrate that long.
No doubt!
luv ur skills, amazing, back to basic skills people forgot these days...
+KaalTrikaal Thanks again!