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Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 2/14/2011, 12:46 am
In Response To: Re: Other: Fuselage frame History?? (Kudzu / Jeff Horton)

: Amazing. Never had thought of folders are Fuselage Frames but no
: doubt they are. Not what I expected but very interesting! I had
: assumed it come about in the late 40's with the advent of cheap
: plywood (after the war).

There was a big "canoe" craze at about the turn of the century (1800's to the 1900's) and kayaks kinda jumped in on that. Seemed that everyone wanted to canoe at about the same time, started late in the 1800's.

Not a heck of alot of difference between a built up wood frame and one cut from a sheet of plywood and built up frames have been popular for hundreds of years ever since commercially available sawn planks became available. So it pre-dates plywood by quite a long time. I'd guess that fuselage SOF's started somewhere between the civil war in the USA and the turn of the century, hard to tell when exactly. Many were built as homebuilts and not alot of history is written about non-commercially built small boats back then.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Other: Fuselage frame History??
Kudzu -- 2/13/2011, 8:49 am
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Bill Hamm -- 2/13/2011, 1:06 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Bill Hamm -- 2/13/2011, 1:07 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
ancient kayaker -- 2/13/2011, 3:27 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Dave Gentry -- 2/13/2011, 1:27 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Reg Lake -- 2/13/2011, 2:06 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Bill Hamm -- 2/13/2011, 5:12 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Thomas Duncan -- 2/13/2011, 8:51 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Kudzu / Jeff Horton -- 2/13/2011, 8:21 pm
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Bill Hamm -- 2/14/2011, 12:46 am
Rigid Frame History -10,000 yrs old
mick allen -- 2/14/2011, 5:34 am
Re: Rigid Frame History -10,000 yrs old
Bill Hamm -- 2/14/2011, 9:19 am
Re: Rigid Frame History -10,000 yrs old
mick allen -- 2/14/2011, 5:55 pm
Re: Rigid Frame History -10,000 yrs old
Bill Hamm -- 2/15/2011, 2:36 am
10,000 yrs old? Probably older ! *PIC*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/15/2011, 8:23 am
found the NY Times story
Paul G. Jacobson -- 2/15/2011, 8:36 am
Re: found the NY Times story
mick allen -- 2/15/2011, 1:18 pm
Framing: others and a relevant aside *PIC*
mick allen -- 2/18/2011, 1:23 am
Re: Other: Fuselage frame History??
Kellan Hatch -- 2/14/2011, 3:40 pm