BUILDING WITH THE FUTURE IN MIND.

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Located on the South shore of Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin, specializing in building and restoring wooden boats and canoes, felling and milling custom timbers and teaching workshops.

We strive to offer you an honest price, whether new construction or marine timbers. If you would like to contact me regarding a project, please feel free to contact us. You can read more about the Swan boys here.

 

NEW BOATS

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We build plank on frame boats using local materials and with long-term maintenance in mind. All boats built to order, production timeline varies based on season.

 

CUSTOM TIMBER

Getting some long, largely clear quartersawn stringer stock out of this Doug Fir. #woodenboat #woodmizer #dougfir #woodworking #sawmillbusiness

Harvesting and milling marine timber from Wisconsin trees. For hackmatack knees, send us your patterns and we will match your needs with our stock and ship directly to you. Pricing and ordering information can be found on our Timber Pricing page.

 WORKSHOPS

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Stay tuned for 2024 Workshops.

From learning tips and tricks on how to best sharpen edge tools , to building a half hull model, or even your own small craft.

Not boat lumber, but I’m having fun putting some credence on the blue tooth and working though a bit of white pine for a neighbor. #woodmizerwednesday #woodmizer #whitepine #lumber #sawmill #johndeere #credenceclearwaterrevival #growninwiscon
I also answer the five questions posed to all guests by the kind fellas over at @mwa_podcast . Spoiler alert! I get long winded. Shocking, I know. #modernwoodworkersassociation #woodworking #woodenboat #pbs #npr
A little past the drop date, but I wanted to give a big shout out to the fellas at the @mwa_podcast podcast for inviting me on. @barton.kyle , @seanw78 , and @markbuildsit are all super cool guys and made me feel super comfortable and welcome. They
A little too busy to bother rotating this sawlog one more time. #verticaltwobyfours #woodmizerwednesday #woodmizerlt40hdwide #sawmillbusiness #woodlife #woodisgood #stayingbusy #movingparts #madeinwi #bayfieldcountywi #jwswanandsons
The luxury with shaping a new tiller is that one can easily add a few extra inches and put something special on the tip. #rasputin #woodenboat #sailing #woodenboatbuilders #rudder #tiller #blacklocust #folkboat
Anyone need some 20’ long clear, wide Butternut? It’s not like this stuff grows on trees. #butternutcanker #woodmizerwednesday #woodworking #woodenboat #woodboatbuilding #sawmill #growninwisconsin
#woodmizerwednesday. Sawing Western Red Cedar on a sunny afternoon. Made all the more pleasant with Bob Uecker and Jeff Levering, the best broadcasters in baseball, calling a Brewers game in my Bluetooth earmuffs. #woodmizer #sawmill #thinkerf #we
Happy #earthday from my little corner of the planet. It’s not much, but here’s a successful example of bud capping a White Pine last fall to protect the terminal bud from winter deer browse. Even with snow, sun, and rain, the paper did
Great job Ethan! Glad to see some Wisconsin White Oak in a New Jersey kayak. #kayak #woodenboat #woodenboatbuilding #skinonframekayak #capefalcon #whiteoak #steambending #boatsofinstagram #growninwisconsin
After Brian @capefalconbuilds posted this photo, I’ve been getting messages about hat availability. They’re union made in the U.S., and embroidered locally in Ashland, WI. 36$ covers the hat and domestic shipping. Forward! Link in bio