Thanks for the responses, guys. Paul, what kind of tools were you refering to? I have anearly complete woodshop. My interest in alternate methods is mainly financial. I just finished a woodstrip canoe that ended up drawing from the household budget. In our home these projects should be financed by 'my custom woodworking projects but I'd rather be building boats. The cheaper I can build a boat the less time I have to spend building for someone else. And believe me after the first one the bug has really set its teeth in deep. [The good news is that after paddling the first, my wife is as anxious as I to build at least one more!] Thanks again.

Tom