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Making a Dugout Canoe

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Artistic woodworker Arthur de Mowbray puts real heart into his craft as he shares his obvious skill and enthusiasm for designing and building a contemporary leisure boat from available timbers. He talks us through the making of `The Mighty Sparrow`, from a fourteen foot long poplar log. Arthur takes traditional boat-building methods and adapts them to suit the lighter, smaller poplar - whilst still using oak off-cuts for specific structural items. From cutting, carving, stretching and stabilising - to `wearing` the beautiful finished boat - Arthur `s respect for the wood and for his craft is clear. http://www.arthurdemowbray.co.uk/dugout-canoes.
Filmed at Bentley Woodfair http://www.bentley.org.uk/
An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv


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Beautiful work.

Matthew Friedrichs

October 12, 2016

Great upload. Really interesting to see the process. Arthur is very talented.

Gan Ainm

October 12, 2016

Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing your work, Arthur!

Wood Hawk

October 12, 2016

A lost art really interesting great skills.

eightgeorge

October 12, 2016

great ! a very good video , thanks

Bryan Standrin

October 12, 2016

Absolutely fantastic build Arthur, wow!!!

jwrappuhn71

October 13, 2016

Looks like a serious amount of manhours went into that boat, but I think you got great result for it. Amazing stuff.

RedUK

October 13, 2016

What a lovely boat! You really can be proud of it and it is absolutely priceless.

Fritz Danielzik

October 13, 2016

Fantastic, fascinating clip. What a beautiful boat. Love the craftsmanship and Arthur was a superb narrator too. Thank you and Happy New Year to you, all my best Heidi

Heidi Anne Morris

January 1, 2017

Wow! That's a really amazing boat!

Latemcire

February 6, 2017