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Building the Cape Falcon F1 Skin on Frame Kayak

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The Shop People metal shop

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  • Color samples of the dye, applied to scrap fabric.
  • The morning after dying, the dye has dried out
  • First cut for a homemade paddle
  • You have to be careful with this cut to avoid making a stress riser
  • One side is tapered and the handle is notched
  • Brian used a power plane to quickly clean up the bandsaw lines
  • This is the power planer to get
  • Marking off the taper.  At the end of the paddle we'll have a 1/2" center.  This tapers to the full width at the handle
  • Showing the full taper
  • One side is tapered and the handle is notched
  • Cutting the taper on the bandsaw
  • The taper is cut
  • Roughing the blade with the power planer
  • The finished rough plane
  • finished rough plane
  • finished rough plane
  • The Shop People metal shop
  • The blade has been shaped with a hand plane
  • The end has been roughly shaped with a hand plane
  • The boats just before coating

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