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Seats:
So... inside ready, outside ready.....I was ready to take a look at the seats I
wanted to install in the canoe. After (again) a lot of looking on the
internet I found at cedarcanoo/seats
the seats in wanted to make.
I made the seats of Ash with natural cane webbing. The center seat should
hold two small children. This shouldn't be a problem because the canoe was
wide enough. However because the canoe was so wide it would be a problem when I place the kids in the center of the canoe on two different seats. They would
have trouble paddling over the side of the canoe.
At the same time I made the seats I also made the thwarts. I
used some Ash and glued on some Red Cedar. Run it through a router and then I
put on some epoxy. I also put epoxy on the seat frames. After that it all got
four layers of varnish.
After that I had to find me some cane to make the webbing.
Coincidence exists................. I looked on the internet for
a long time to find a company that could deliver me natural cane. After some time I
found a company that could ship it by mail. On the same day however, when I drove
home from work, I saw a shop that makes furniture from all kinds
of natural stuff. They had cane in all sizes and bundles. I had never seen this
shop before and I hade driven this route for the last three years. I just didn't
couldn't have notice it earlier.
Making the webbing is an easy job. Just stick to the pattern two
horizontal, two vertical and one cross diagonal to the left and one to the
right. These seats, if kept dry, would last for generations.
Now the webbing was done I could putt in the seats and thwarts.
First however I had to make the inner- and outer wales. The picture above shows
the seats into place. They were hung on stainless steel bolds that I lowered
into the wood and plunged.
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