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Building a Sassafras 14 ft. stitched lapstrake canoe
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HOME 1. laying out
the planks
2. cutting
planks
3. gluing
planks
4. rabbeting
edges
5. stitching
seams
6. shaping
hull
7. filleting
stems
8. gluing
seams
9. removing
stitches
10. filling
holes
11. gluing
inwhales
12. gluing
outwhales
13. glassing
outside
14. glassing inside 15. glassing
keel
16. decks and
seat mounts
17. installing
seats
18. epoxy
coat
19. sanding 20. varnishing 21. finishing up 22. launching storage BILL OF
MATERIALS
This canoe was built from plans in the book "The Canoe Shop"


For a more printable version you can download the Bill of Materials below in Excel or Adobe Acrobat formats

Bill of Materials for the Sassafras 14 canoe
(this is a list of exactly what I purchased in the summer of 2007)

$19.95

book: "The Canoe Shop" by Chris Kulczycki
$215.96 4 sheets @ 53.91 of 4mm Okume marine grade plywood (certified by Lloyds to be void free)

$49.71

16 foot length (7 board feet) rough sawn Mahogany (approx 7/8" X 7")
$88.99 1 Gallon of West System type 105 resin epoxy
$35.99 27.5 fl oz of West System fast hardener type 205
$32.95 27.5 fl oz of West System slow hardener type 206
$15.35 7 fl oz of West System slow hardener type 206
$20.99 5.5 oz. West System 406 Colloidal silica adhesive filler (I used only a fraction of this)
$16.99 5 quart bucket of wood flour (I used less than 1/2 quart)
$11.99 West system universal pump dispenser kit (3 different metered dispensing pumps)
$15.50 200ft. roll of 18 gage copper wire (found on the web)
$5.99 3 pack of plastic spreaders
$15.96 6 plastic glue syringes
$3.99 3" paint roller frame
$23.99 6 3" paint rollers (thin nap foam type for epoxy + varnish)
$1.99 8 pack plastic mixing sticks (I also used some wood scraps for mixing)
$45.40 10 yards of 38" wide fiberglass cloth
$64.98 2 canoe seats
$6.99 2" wide high quality masking tape (green)
$35.00 Various disposable paint brushes, some foam, some bristle
$27.88 8  5.5"  1/4 X 20 bronze carriage bolts, 2 2" bronze carriage bolts, 10 washers, 10 nuts
$23.97 3 boxes of 50 pairs of latex disposable gloves (2 would do - I didn't use all of them)
$20.00 220 grit sandpaper sheets
$22.00 various 5" sanding disks for orbital sander 220 and 120 grit
$10.99 Box of Scott shop rags (industrial paper towels) - very necessary!
$32.98 2 quarts Man o' War Spar varnish
$3.79 2" polyester trim paint brush (for varnish)
$3.29 tack cloths
$7.49 Gallon of paint thinner
$877.95 TOTAL - not including tax


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