A Cree Shovel and SomeToboggans

This past week was a flurry of activity around the shop. I had a few fellows come up to make toboggans. This class is always the first weekend of February. Bill came early and made a Cree Hunter's shovel before the Toboggan class over the weekend. Please look at the past post on the shovel, and if you have time watch the movie linked, The Cree Hunter's of Misstassini, it is a great movie. The Toboggan class was great fun as well. We bent local white ash that I milled into boards from a friends wind falls and later re-sawed into thin staves/planks for the toboggans. We used copper rivets and clench nails to fasten the cross bars to the staves/planks. I don't have a lot of time to write, as today I'm going to attempt to bend up 8-10 pair of snowshoes for a class this weekend, more on that later. Enjoy the photos.