The serious outdoor person is always looking for better gear and this gear is not always available from the sporting goods stores. Included in this book are complete plans and instructions for building fiberglass trip boxes, a wooden pack frame, a canoe chair, a boat/canoe seat, a camp bucksaw, lightweight laminated canoe paddles, how to mount a canoe motor, and how to make a personal hatband. In addition Gil has included dozens of camping tips and ideas along with instructions for seat caning and using epoxy. Finally, there is a bonus section designed to introduce readers to building strip canoes and making snowshoes. With 22 precision drawings and 104 photographs.
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About the Author
Gil Gilpatrick has spent his life in outdoor Maine. For 26 years he was an instructor of Outdoor Resources at the Skowhegan Regional Vocational Center. His other major occupation was, and still is, guiding wilderness canoe trips in northern Maine. Gil considers his life, combining these careers, an ideal blend of his love of the outdoors and that of making hand crafted items. "To see a need, and then set out to fill that need is the most satisfying thing I can think of to do," says the author. But Gil also takes great pleasure in seeing others enjoy the items he has developed and perfected. He has never made any of his gear commercially, rather preferring to make a few for friends and writing about them for others. Gil is a prolific writer and, besides writing free-lance articles when time permits, he is a regular columnist for Maine’s Northwoods Sporting Journal, a monthly publication about outdoor Maine.
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GREAT GEAR PROJECTS,
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Gil Gilpatrick has written a very precise and clear guidebook for the construction of some very useful and clever outdoor gear. After reading the book completely I was able to tackle the construction of two food packs using methods and materials that I had previously never used. The projects shown in the book reflect a lifetime working and living outdoors, written in a no-nonsense style, are simple and functional. I gave the book four stars for the sole reason that I hope Gil Gilpatrick writes a new edition with more projects.
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Gil is the modern day pioneer. Making your own outdoor equipment is fun and rewarding. I just made a gear box and gathering wood for a paddle, Gil style. Thanks Gil for taking us back to a simpler day.
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For 26 years I taught a program called Outdoor Resources in a vocational school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
binder cane, upper cross piece, motor bar, canoe chair, amine blush, cure phase, lower cross piece, exterior polyurethane, plastic cane, ash strip, strip canoes, thickened mixture, paddle shaft, mixed epoxy, epoxy mixture, cedar strips, initial cure, fiberglass cloth, bending form, paddle blade, pack frame, mini pumps, stove bolts, grip area, excess resin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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For 26 years I taught a program called Outdoor Resources in a vocational school. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
binder cane, upper cross piece, motor bar, canoe chair, amine blush, cure phase, lower cross piece, exterior polyurethane, plastic cane, ash strip, strip canoes, thickened mixture, paddle shaft, mixed epoxy, epoxy mixture, cedar strips, initial cure, fiberglass cloth, bending form, paddle blade, pack frame, mini pumps, stove bolts, grip area, excess resin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Building Outdoor Gear, Building Snowshoes, Canoe Country, Outdoor Resources, United States, White Guide New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Photoshop for Windows (Classroom in a Book) by Adobe Systems in Back Matter
- Building Snowshoes in Back Matter
- Building a Strip Canoe by Gil Gilpatrick in Back Matter
- Building Outdoor Gear by Gil Gilpatrick in Front Matter
- Allagash by Gil Gilpatrick on page 30, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Allagash Guide by Gil Gilpatrick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Building Snowshoes and Snowshoe Furniture by Gil Gilpatrick on page 147
- The Outdoor Leaders Handbook by Gil Gilpatrick in Back Matter
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