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Title: Wonderful content. Disappointing publishing.
Review: Fifteen years ago my kids and I used the first edition of "Building a Strip Canoe" to make a "puddle duck." We were not great woodworkers but the boat is wonderful. We get lots of appreciative comments to this day. We've paddled it in the Rockies and the Chesapeake Bay. It has been bashed in and repaired and is a family icon.I have long since lost my copy of the 1st edition so I was excited to see a new, 2nd edition of "Building a Strip Canoe" here on Amazon. I bought it hot of the press and found . . . the typeface, ink, and glossy pages conspire to make it very hard to read, to the extent that it is unusable.In it's favor: the second edition includes full-sized plans for the canoes. The plans in the first edition have to be blown up (not hard on modern copiers.) Also the binding appears better now. My first edition fell apart -- I re-bound it with a simple spiral binding.I returned the new 2nd edition and intend to buy a used 1st edition.
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