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Skin-on-Frame: Building a Birch Bark Canoe *LINK*
By:John F Monroe
Date: 9/13/2009, 1:23 pm

I don't know what category to put this in, but if you have an hour and high speed to watch a French Canadian native I think he is, built a canoe out of a tree he cuts down with an ax, sew it together with roots, shapes two ribs at a time in 45 seconds on his knee, and all on the dirt ground and never put any metal into it then you will be as spellbound as I was watching this. I thought we were craftsmen but this guy is the real thing. His craft must have been passed down from father to son over hundreds of years or more.

Enjoy,
John Monroe

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Skin-on-Frame: Building a Birch Bark Canoe *LINK*
John F Monroe -- 9/13/2009, 1:23 pm
what material simulates Birch Bark
mike allen -- 9/17/2009, 2:06 pm
Re: what material simulates Birch Bark
Bill Hamm -- 9/20/2009, 1:40 am
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Jerry S -- 9/17/2009, 10:13 am
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Glen Smith -- 9/17/2009, 10:21 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 9/16/2009, 10:24 pm
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Graham Wheeler -- 9/15/2009, 9:42 pm
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Steve Rasmussen -- 9/14/2009, 12:20 am
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Bob Beaullieu -- 9/14/2009, 8:57 am
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Foster -- 9/13/2009, 6:04 pm
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Sean -- 9/14/2009, 9:18 pm