nickb
WCHA member #8947
Finally done with my first canoe
After a long (long) time, and much invaluable advice and encouragement from this community, canoe #1 is complete. For someone who prior to this, really didn't have any woodworking skills to speak of, this is a very very big deal. Still has a bunch of sawdust on it even. I have a feeling I'll always want to be cleaning things up and touching up the paint (that didn't come out so well - I think I posted about this earlier - I painted too cold - got a little orange peel) but regardless I'm putting it in the lake later today (perhaps I'll put up pictures of the launch). It's certainly far from perfect, and as I peruse others first time builds here on the forum, I realize I have a long way to go. But as a good friend has told me, "It's not nothing." In other words the boat exists, it is something I made instead of only thinking about it, or stopping when things didn't come out as good as most other boats I've seen.
Thank you to everyone who offered a kind word of assistance over these many months and years. Hopefully I'll have a better product to show for all your input the second time around. I truly would not have gotten to this point without the WCHA.
After a long (long) time, and much invaluable advice and encouragement from this community, canoe #1 is complete. For someone who prior to this, really didn't have any woodworking skills to speak of, this is a very very big deal. Still has a bunch of sawdust on it even. I have a feeling I'll always want to be cleaning things up and touching up the paint (that didn't come out so well - I think I posted about this earlier - I painted too cold - got a little orange peel) but regardless I'm putting it in the lake later today (perhaps I'll put up pictures of the launch). It's certainly far from perfect, and as I peruse others first time builds here on the forum, I realize I have a long way to go. But as a good friend has told me, "It's not nothing." In other words the boat exists, it is something I made instead of only thinking about it, or stopping when things didn't come out as good as most other boats I've seen.
Thank you to everyone who offered a kind word of assistance over these many months and years. Hopefully I'll have a better product to show for all your input the second time around. I truly would not have gotten to this point without the WCHA.
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