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CANOE KIT MATERIALS

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C.N.C. Cut STATION MOLDS

If you are building a canoe from plans produced by the Bear Mountain Boat Shop,then the kit items described here will be quite appropriate for your project.

Over the years, we have built most of the canoes featured in Ted Moores' CANOECRAFT and our products work. In the image above, you can see a 16' Prospector about half planked up.

Below, the same canoe is seen with the bottom strips - much shorter at this point- closing over one side of the midline.

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The strips are made of western red cedar; they are FULL LENGTH (to 20') and CLEAR. The grain structure is VERTICAL GRAIN on the flat faces--essential for ease of shaping and sanding. The strips arrive in bundles of SEVEN STRIPS all of which came from one plank and are taped together exactly as they lay in the original board.

The strips measure 1/4" (6 mm) x 13/16" x 16-20 feet long. There are 60 strips in a package; large girth canoes (Prospector and Nomad) will require one extra bundle of 7 strips.

(tube is 6" diameter x 18' long--holds up to 70 strips,gunwale set, stem stock, stem bands and a shoe keel)

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Feature Strips and Geometric Patterns

Each strip built watercraft is going to be unique and that aspect will be a reflection of both the available strips and the patterning of those strips. It is possible to add to the overall look of the craft by using some very distinct full length strips or geometric patterns.

On the price list below can be found, as options, some of these feature strips which are displayed in the images above.

item #

DESCRIPTION
$$ PRICE
     
1
bead and cove STRIP package (60 strips) (16 foot)
$ 650.00
2
bead and cove STRIP package (60 strips) (17 foot)
$ 673.00
3
bead and cove STRIP package (60 strips) (18 foot)
$ 713.00
4
bead and cove STRIP package (60 strips) (20 foot)
$ 900.00
5
extra bundle of SEVEN strips (Prospector and Nomad)
$87.00
6
Stem Stock (white ash and white cedar) you bend to make inner and outer stems
$ 53.00
7
Gunwale Stock (4 pieces white ash-you scupper) planed 4 faces 18' long
$ 128.00
8
KEEL ash 5/8" x 1 1/8" x length for your canoe-2 of 3 end tapers are cut
$ 63.00
9
SHIPPING TUBE (if being trucked) 6" x 18' x 1/4" wall
$ 28.00
10
COVER COMPONENTS * (see note below)
$ 585.00
11
CANOE SEATS (pair) ash or cherry frames--black nylon web belts
$ 89.00
12
CANOE SEATS (pair) ash or cherry HANDWOVEN CANE
$ 195.00
13
deep dished CARRYING YOKE (ash or cherry for dependability)
$ 95.00
14
THWARTS (ash or cherry) 34" or 36"(depends on the model)
$ 19.00
15
SHORT THWARTS (lifting handles) ash or cherry (pair)

$ 15.00
16
BRASS STEM BANDS 48" partially shaped and drilled) (pair)
$ 54.00
17
5"st. steel MACHINE SCREWS (suspend seats below gunwales) (8)
$ 15.00
18
2" brass CARRIAGE BOLTS (to suspend thwarts or yoke and lift handles
$ 1.65 ea
19
brass EYE BOLT (usually on bow deck only)
$ 14.00
20
package for attaching keel (3/4" #8 brass screws and brass cup washers)
$ 12.00
21
 WOOD FLOUR plastic bag (use to colour and thicken epoxy) $ 8.00
22
C.N.C. cut STATION MOLDS (5/8" high density particle board)
$ 249.00
23
 Bear Mountain CANOE PLANS
$ 69.00

FEATURE STRIPS and GEOMETRIC PATTERN KITS

24
BASSWOOD very light, almost white 1" x 18' sold in pairs only
$ 16.00
25
RED CEDAR dark heartwood(when available) 1" x 18' sold in pairs only
 $ 25.00
26
MAHOGANY dark, uniform colour 3/4" x 18' sold in pairs only
$ 22.00
27
32 piece GEOMETRIC PATTERN KIT (covers 4 rows each side, you glue parts in place, instruction sheet, DARK centre pieces with light ends)
$ 165.00

 

 

* COVER COMPONENTS; 2 cans W.E.S.T. 105 epoxy resin--2 cans W.E.S.T. 207 hardener--set dispensing pumps for accurate 3:1 ratio mix--2 plastic squeeges--11 yards 6 ounce 60 inch fibreglass cloth

 

two Prospector 16' canoes-Kipawa Forest, Quebec

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Computer Numeric Control

C.N.C. STATION MOLDS

(the molds shown above are for an Ontario WHITEHALL rowing boat)

If accuracy is what you want, consider a set of these station molds- we cut every model in the Bear Mountain catalogue. Each mold has the vertical midline and 4" reference waterline engraved along with the station mold number.

Set of CNC molds-any canoe-$249.00

 

...the end result

 

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