Here's one of the tricks to carving a Northwest coast Native canoe: To make the canoe the proper thickness along it's length you drill holes and insert pre-cut wooden pegs; a finger thick for the sides and two fingers thick for bottom. Then you hollow out the canoe until all the pegs are at the surface of the wood. Now your canoe is a uniform thickness from bow to stern.

Easy? Any way you do it, it is a very big job to hollow out a dug-out canoe,.

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