Contact me at: douglasingram1963@gmail.com or by phone 204.878.2524

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Lots of stuff goes on in this shop, located in Lorette, Manitoba.

Primarily it's the building and repair of classic wood & canvas canoes, and the making of premium canoe paddles. I also do custom boat building, composite fabrication, and special projects. A growing passion of mine is the making of classical guitars, I'll post about that, too.


I want to be able to share with my clients the progress of their commissioned work. Later I started thinking that there might be other people who are interested in what goes on inside a wooden canoe shop operated by an artist and a recovering teacher.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me by email, phone, or by post. My mailing address is:

Red River Canoe & Paddle
24249 River Rd
Lorette, Manitoba
Canada
R5K 0Z6




Friday, 1 January 2010

Two of the guitars have this rosette.

And one has this...

The two Ash body guitars, for my daughters, have tone ports that look like this.

Some details of the backs. The first is inlaid and the second is drawn on with ink prior to varnish.



The backs.




What's better than one new Torres SE117 guitar?

That would be two!

And what's better than two new Torres SE117 guitars?

That would be three!


I finally got these guitars finished! Yeah, I can get them out of my shop where they have been coming together for over a year. The risk of damage increases with the duration of exposure to risk, and I was getting increasingly anxious about this.

The center guitar is for me, and I built it fairly traditional. The other two guitars are for my daughters. Hopefully they will learn to play, I'm looking forward to that.

Saturday, 19 December 2009

Got my Panormo guitar finished last week, too. I've wanted to build one of these for years. It was worth the wait. This is a fun little guitar to play. Small body and short scale, but not a small sound! Good tone and plenty of volume. Different sound from a modern guitar, or anything built in the Torres tradition, but that's why I built it.





Got my double cutaway, Arias/Fleta/Selmer concoction finished! I put the strings on last week and I'm really enjoying the sound of this guitar. The bass is awesome-deep, crisp and resonant.



Gotta get an eagle onto one of the paddles, so same process as before.

Done.