From the taste of turkey, we move to the next cooking phase. (No we are not cooking meth). The day after Thanksgiving we purchased 7 boards of clear cedar, each 18 feet long in length. Does not sound like much, but comes to a bill of about $550.00 in product. (Yes you do not want to make a cutting mistake, measure 5 times and cut once).
What you are seeing in this photo is the steaming of strips of cedar and ash so that they can be bent to make the stern and bow peices. This was a new process for me to learn and quite interesting. After they are heated and steamed for about 15 minutes, you can pull them out and quickly clamp them into place, in order to hold their shape. Yes, my wife was gone when I desecrated the kitchen in this manner.
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