I have never built a chair. And it will probably be a while before I do. But still, Chairmaker's Notebook by Peter Galbert is perhaps the one book that has had the biggest impact on my...

The list below is what I consider the minimum tools you will need to build a small wooden boat. You might have access to other tools that will prove useful, but in order to keep things simple and...

A boatbuilding workshop is in many ways similar to other woodshops. But due to the size and complex shape of the boat and its parts, there are some special requirements for a boatbuilding shop,...

When wood gets wet it swells up and when it dries, it shrinks. That's the basic mechanism behind the good old "leaky wooden boat" problem. 

Wood swelling and drying

The joint between two...

You want to build a wooden boat, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't be here. But should the boat be built of plywood or of natural wood straight from the tree?

The big difference between plywood and...

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Obviously, when you cut down trees, you take away something from nature, right? So in that respect, it's not nature friendly. But the good thing is that trees can grow up again,...

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You know when you build boats you make a lot of mistakes. I would say that any boatbuilder who says he's built a boat without making any mistakes he's lying, for sure, haha!

But...

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"Walking you are bounded by every sea and river, and in a common sailing-boat you are bounded by every shallow and shore; whereas, I was in a canoe, which could be paddled or...

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So the reason I use wood is ... You know there are several reasons.

So if you're purely into the technical aspects, wood is probably the best material for a boat in terms of...

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I'm really not against progress, but sometimes I think progress can actually hit us right in the butt.

It's like, machinery: Working with machinery and making stuff automatically...

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Taking time to do something slowly can sometimes be kind of hard, I think.

You know, when I'm in the boat shop sometimes I rush it too much. I want to be done, I...