Making a West Greenland Kayak

I sanded and dismantled the frame, and made sure the tenons fitted the best they could. Then locked the beams in the frame with trunnels and...

Time to cut the tenons for the main beams and fit them snugly against the gunwales. One of the beams ready for cutting. Most the sawing I us...

Now its time for the deck-beams. There are three types of beams I'll start with two of them first, the main thinner beams and the two th...

Today I made the gunwale forms. Five forms used to form the rails and hold them in place while adding shape to the bow and stern ends and he...

After finishing the last of the deck-beams mortises the last task on the gunwales was to bevel the inside edge of the rails. The bevelling l...

Next the mortises for the eleven deck beams. All the joints are mortises that sit at 17º and together with that each beam will sit against ...

After finishing off the last 30 mortises on the second gunwale its was time to plane the ends to shape. A batten is clamped and layed out a...