Building the Pygmy Coho has some good tips for S&G kayak building.

Here’s a tip that I wished I had noticed earlier:
“I cut a plastic cup to match the length of the stitching wires. I put the end of the wire down to the bottom of the cup and cut it at the top of the cup. I repeated until I had a cup full of wires of the correct length. If you cut the wires with a wire stripper (adjust it so you can cut at the notch where you would normally strip) you will get a flat end on the wires. Otherwise, you will find yourself perforated by the sharp points that are sticking out everywhere.”