This week it was time to start building our Tiny Shipping Container House furniture, but of course things didn't go as planed. Of course something happened and ...
Odd Life Crafting
Before the bent frames can be permanently fastened in place they need a final inspection, a coat of oil and their respective socket cleaned up and sealed. We ...
Acorn To Arabella
In the last video we showed a bit of the process for steaming in Arabella's frames but it's such an important part of the build that we wanted to do a full ...
Winter is coming and we need to get ready for it! We are planning on working through the winter, therefore it is important for us to be prepared with all the ...
We had a lot to do in order to get ready for the steaming of the frames. We cut the frame sockets as well as milled up all the framing stock, and just in ...
The build has been coming along nicely so far. There is only one thing that has really stymied us... The rabbet and bearding lines. Being such an important ...
Need an explanation of bent frame construction? Here's the first part. We've been working fast now and after assembling the backbone, it was time to install ...
The backbone is bolted together! We finally have some timbers bolted together and what a great feeling. It has been a long journey up to this point, with a ...
We're getting the backbone assembly up... but there is so much to do before we can actually put it all together. We go through all of that in this video, ...
It's taken two years of prep before getting to the point of being able to start bolting things together but we are finally there! The stern assembly is up and ...
Ever wondered who we really are? Well here we go! (at least a little bit of an insight...) Doug from SV Seeker has been kind enough to have interviewed us ...
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Sampson Boat Co
Yes, we are starting to finally put her together. It's been a long time coming and we have many pieces ready, but we are steps away from bolting things ...
We love going to the wooden boat show at Mystic Seaport and wanted to share some of that with you all but it didn't really fit well in one of our longer videos ...
After seeing the fore deadwood and the milling in detail, we thought it would be interesting to see another side of these two processes. In this video we show ...
In the last episode we shaped the wormshoe to fit into the keel timber. We had many requests for an explanation on how we found those lines to cut to. This ...
The deadwood shaped in the last episode is capped with a wormshoe. The wormshoe is a protective sacrificial piece that can be replaced if it is ever damaged ...
With the ballast keel poured, faired and painted, it is now time to start building out fore and aft of it. Due to the naturally dense aspect of the ballast ...
Sometimes, you just have to flip things on their heads to work on them. As we finished fairing our the ballast keel, we flipped it and the wood keel in order ...
This is one expensive piece of lumber! We wanted to make sure that we accurately cut the keel timber to shape so our initial cut was only getting us close to ...
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Ryan bought a plane ticket, rented a car, and took a one week visit to come from Colorado to Massachusetts to help us on our project... for free! Thank you ...
Despite the arrival of Spring, weather just doesn't seem to want to let up. We've been struggling with the weather so as to start painting the keel timber and ...
Having sharp tools is important. As temps are warming up and we are getting back into the thick of boatbuilding work, we felt this would be an appropriate ...