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Building a Sassafras 14 ft. stitched lapstrake canoe

HOME laying out
the planks
cutting
planks
gluing
planks
rabbeting
edges
stitching
seams
shaping
hull
filleting
stems
gluing
seams
removing
stitches
filling
holes
gluing
inwhales
gluing
outwhales
glassing
outside
glassing inside glassing
keel
decks and
seat mounts
installing
seats
epoxy
coat
sanding varnishing finishing up launching storage BILL OF
MATERIALS


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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