A Sled Maker's Journal

Before the Europeans came to Northern Canada, living on the land was difficult or at least more difficult than today. Many of the people where nomadic in that they followed the game to feed themse...

It’s been suggested that we have some sort of “buyers guide” on our website. Often folks who may not be familiar with the different toboggan styles need help making a decision on which toboggan wi...

A brief look at the final touch to steam bending the perfect wooden toboggan curl. www.ntsled.com  

  I’ve just given one of my personal toboggans a quick touch up coat of linseed oil for the coming season. In the archives of this blog is an article on toboggan maintenance that goes into more de...

Here is a recent video we did of me giving some of our history and background while making a traditional toboggan. While I share some of the story, you see some of the process including how a wood...

I can remember being a youngster with my new baseball glove and diligently oiling it and packing baseball’s in it, tying it up at night to form the “pocket”. It took a while but the end result was...

Back in the beginning days, I was building my first toboggan with my mentor Milton Chaboyer and he told me that he always finished his sleighs with boiled linseed oil and cedar oil stain mixture: ...

As I have mentioned before, the original toboggans of the North used babiche for fastening the crosspieces. Babiche is a cord or lace made by cutting long circular cuts in an animal hide. These da...

The toboggan is an ingenious snow sled. Flat boards held together with crosspieces and on one end, the boards are curled over 180 degrees so it can climb on top of snow and over obstacles. It perf...