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| Welcome to Carstens Cabinets, Canoes, and Woodcrafts.
I am a long time woodworker and craftsman, I enjoy making beautiful kitchen cabinets with raised panel doors. I use a variety of woods such as oak, hickory, and my personal favorite, cherry. If you would like a beautiful set of custom made cabinets for a very competetive price you have come to the right place. In these tough economic times it makes sense to up grade your existing home rather than buy a new home, and new cabinets can make a tremendous increase in home value. If you want to save even more money I can reface your existing cabinets for a lot less while still making your kitchen beautiful and modern. If you would like new cabinets send me an email at splitcanoe@yahoo.com I am sure that with your input we can come up with a plan that can get you that new kitchen. I also make two piece canoes Now you can pull your fifth wheel and take your canoe along too. The new rigs out today are 12-13 feet tall, making it hard to take a canoe with you. With my split canoe you can carry the canoe on top of your truck while pulling your rig and not have the canoe sticking way out in front of your truck or interfering with your fifth wheel. Enjoy the outdoors with a beautiful innovative cedar strip canoe. I use a rubber seal and a multi groove band bolted together to join the two halves. The canoe pictured has been out on the water for multiple hours and has not leaked a bit. It is light weight and easy to load and unload, and also easy to join together. It has hand caned seats, ash yoke, maple gunnels, and black walnut decks and bulkheads. The inner gunnels are scuppered and tapered. Reason for a two piece canoe Over the years we would go on trips with our 5th wheel and camp along side a beautiful lake or stream. We would sit and dream of being able to go canoeing on the lakes and streams, something that we couldn’t do because the 5th wheel was to high to be able to carry a canoe on top of it. So I decided to make a two piece canoe that I could carry the two halves side by side on top of my truck and still pull our 5th wheel. Now we can and do travel, camp, canoe, and enjoy the lakes and streams. No more sitting around wishing and dreaming. Not only can YOU now go canoeing and fishing while camping and traveling, you can do so in a beautiful hand crafted cedar strip canoe. |   |