The Making of a Cedar Dugout Canoe
(Page 7 of 7)
January/February 1984
By Jim McDowell
[1] Skillful hands guide the curved knife. [2] Carter finishes the rough-shaping, using a homemade elbow adz. [3] Tait resumes
hollowing out the hull. [4] Earl drills depth-guide holes and . . . [5] the two men excavate the interior down to the cavities. [6] Tait
and Carter plan the final shaping, which [7] is done almost entirely with Norman's self-crafted D-adz. [8] Sharp tools are a must! [9]
Tait shapes a stem with the elbow adz. [10] Norman and Earl load the finished 150-pound canoe in a van, for shipping to Ottawa.
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