Planing, sanding and fiberglassing. Not planes, but OMG how frikin' bee u T ful!

[KEITH McCRARY]

Not planes, but OMG how frikin' bee u T ful!

[Crist Rigotti]

Yeah, I followed his progress as he made that Kayak!

[Elwyn Aud]

Magnificent

[Gerald Arana]

Somebody send him a ringmaster kit.

Why? He'd probably make it out of cedar............. and it'd be to heavy to get off the ground with a Fox 35 ! Hahahahahahahahaha

Jerry

[frank williams]

What a beautiful project .... Awesome

[john e. holliday]

He is a craftsman and looks like a lot of patience.  Seen a few ideas for when I plank another fuselage.

[Serge_Krauss]

Suddenly at 23:16, when he first laid the fiberglass out, he had separated the top from the bottom and removed the formers. How did he do that? Did he insert any bulkheads? I had to watch some a second time to see how that all happened, and I missed it!

[Mike Scholtes]

Yeah, I watched the whole fascinating video and wondered the same thing. Suddenly the halves had been parted and reassembled. How to do that without inducing a twist or misalignment? This person is obviously such a master builder that maybe he doesn't have such problems.

Presuming these kayaks are made for sale, imagine what they must cost! A $100,000 kayak, anyone? And, as a sea kayaker myself, this boat is for experts only. No visible chines and very rounded hull. Incredible project!

[Alan Resinger]

Twenty or so years ago I  spent a lot of time building and teaching how to build cedar strip canoes and kayaks.  If you watch the video, when Nick  first sets up the mold forms, you see him clamping short square pieces into a groove milled into both sides of each mold with orange clamps.  He then uses these as a ledge for the strip that defines the split line.  The bottom is planked first.  You see him laying a flexible strip and looking along the strip to see if he has a fair curve.  Then he will lay in the first strip as a base for the remaining strips.  Once the bottom is complete, the entire hull is flipped, set into cradles in preparation for planking the top.  Ths strip that was the first plank then serves as a base for the top.  Obviously those two strips are not glued together until joining the hull into one piece.
I used to ne able to build a canoe and finish it with 5 coats of varnish in 80 hours.  A kayak took about 100 hours.  In th early 90's, I  sold canoes for between $3000 and $4000. I would estimate that kayak would sell for $8-10 thousand. Cost of materials in those days was about $650. Cost today would be more than double that.  Good Western Red Cedar cost about $3 a board foot and today would be over $10 plus the time required to mill all the strips.  I used bead and cove strips and would today if I was going to build one.  Lots faster and looks just as good in my opinion.

[Istvan Travnik]

Really an art of work, and beautifully colored and patterned wood...
However, if I had to make some kayak, or canoe, surely it was sculptured and carved out of bluefoam.
Finally glassed, naturally... 
Istvan