Hi Lloyd,
I know you have an interest in handmade boats.
A friend passed this video along about pirouge making in South Louisiana, my homeland. The video was created around 1948-49 and depicts local craftsmen carving a local pirouge from a felled cypress with hand tools. The actual boat making starts at around minute 4:15.
https://www.folkstreams.net/film,188
Pirouges were used by the trappers and fishermen in South Louisiana to travel through the shallow inland bayous. I’m sure there is a study somewhere that will describe how they were derived, in some way shape or form, from the dugout canoe but their shape and draft and size are much different. Current varieties are built of fiberglass but there was a transition between the dugout and the fiberglass versions that were built of marine grade plywood. Those are still being made by hand and are collectors items.
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Check out the Timber Framers Guild @tfguild.org . There may be a project in your area in the near future. They also have an accredited apprenticeship program through individual shops.
Just got their new catalog. This is an amazing school on the banks of Lake Superior, with classes on boat building, blacksmithing, basketry, sailing, building, foods and a lot more. If you (or your kids) want to learn some of the almost-forgotten skills and crafts, I recommend checking them out: https://www.northhouse.org/
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“Hey Lloyd:
Our recent Timber Framing Workshop went amazingly well and was a huge blast. The students had a fantastic time. We got an incredible amount of work done on our new timber frame home, especially considering we used hand tools exclusively, and most participants had little or no prior experience. Wow!
Here’s a slideshow of the event that I wanted to share with you:
https://small-scale.net/yearofmud/2012/06/27/timber-frame-workshop-2012-photo-slideshow/
We did everything from traditional square rule layout, to lofting with daisy wheel layout (just like illiterate French carpenters of old used), and everything in-between.
Your books were no doubt an inspiration for us to do timber frame construction, especially Builders of the Pacific Coast.
Yahoo!
– ziggy”
See: The Year of Mud: https://www.theyearofmud.com
(Ziggy’s Cob Cottage is featured on pp. 110-113 of Tiny Homes.)
Thanks to Bob Dow for sending this
Hi Lloyd,
