Part 1 of a series featuring the construction of a canoe from two sheets of plywood over three days. The project includes the ...

What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter’s glue, and then cover the ...

“So you’re starting to see what I mean about all the sanding?” says Ron Pellinen, my wooden canoe-building mentor, when I walk into his shop on a brisk March morning in Northern Ontario. Perched on an ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

BIGFORK, Minn. - In his dilapidated workshop steeped in cedar sawdust and family history, Ray Boessel frets over his role in keeping a centuries-old craft alive. The craft is building birchbark canoes ...

Local non-profit the Duluth Folk School has been partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs... Local non-profit the Duluth Folk School has been partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northland and ...

There's no room for a car in the Kesselhon garage. Instead, the space is taken up by cedar strip canoes in various stages of construction. Forms for more hang from the rafters. Welcome to the Lakeside ...