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I just wanted to say Thank You. I enjoyed that film from beginning to end. If you find more of this type please do post them up.

My shop has most of the tools shown and every now and again I'll use them for a limited time. Most came from my Grandfather and the Dairy farm my step-father inherited and ran (successfully) for many years. Truth is I spend more time sharpening them for memory sake than actually putting them to work. They will wear you out in a hurry.

Curious, around 7:50 into the film there is a specialized planer they show in use shaping the convex angle at the prow. I am not familiar with this particular tool however I can very easily see it's worth even today. There are many times where it's dicey to use the edge of a random orbit to trace a gentle angle. If I could find a suitable planer like the one shown it would definitely not be a wall hanger...I could use it several times a week.

Anyone know if this specialized piece has a name?
 
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Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that odd little tool. Would love to get my hands on one of those for sure.

Wonderful video--made my day watching that. Thanks for sharing!
 
I saw it too, if you're referring to the plane that appeared to be on a swivel? That got my attention as well. I've never seen one before.

FOUND IT!!
stanley swivel head sweetheart scraper plane
 
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Square_peg said:
Thanks!

I thought that boat rowed from the standing position was pretty cool, too.
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Oh ya.
I have a little one man canoe that I bow fish out of on ocassion. Stand up, paddle in one hand bow in the other. Its for sure a warm weather sport. Just as well have a beer and loosen up before you get on the water. My bows float.
 
That's a very finely made boat !! And he shaved the hair from his arm to test sharpness of the axe !!! I'd like to know what wood he used also.
 
mete said:
...I'd like to know what wood he used also.
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I was thinking cypress. Bingo:

...early Cajun pirogues were made of whole cypress logs. But wholesale logging of the basin’s cypress forests made the logs harder to come by, and by the 1920s, planked pirogues had taken their place as the staple of South Louisiana. Latiolais’s pirogues are made of planks from “sinker cypress” trunks sunk in Atchafalaya Basin bayous and rivers, leftovers from the timber boom.
quoted from http://gardenandgun.com/article/cajun-pirogues
 
Thoroughly enjoyed that! Thank you. There are so many seemingly simple lost 'arts' out there that no one at the time even considered to be 'arts' to begin with. Costs about 1/2 million dollars for a museum to try to "recreate" a birch bark canoe now and yet the craftsmen of yore used to churn these things out every week and with minimal tools.
 
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