cane

I'm restoring a canoe by an unknown builder that seems to be a Maine guide canoe from about 1900. It will not be a completely faithful restoration as the canoe originally had closed gunwales, and I am going with open gunwales. But at some point I need to decide about seats. Earlier...

Anybody have some plans for making 'old style' caned seat backs? I intend to use it on a PennYan Rainbow - or whatever else I might acquire in the future. If you look at this link you'll see a rather nice design for an Adirondack Guide that'll show what I'm talking about (...