A Sled Maker's Journal

How We Select, Steam, and Bend Wood to Hand-Build Toboggans & Snowshoes When you hold one of our toboggans or a pair of handcrafted snowshoes in your hands, you’re holding a story. It begins in...

Like any trade, our woodshop has received many requests and product suggestions over the years. From time to time we test some prototypes and play with processes to make unique and useful lifetime ...

The Year-Round Joyride: Essential Tips for Caring for Your Wooden Toboggan   As summer shines upon us, it's easy to get caught up in the warmth and fun of the season. However, it's never too early ...

When training an apprentice it is not only fun to watch their skill and confidence grow over time, but the learning becomes reciprocal.

Over years of assisting my father in ripping, cutting, planing, tapering, and finally…bending hardwood, it's safe to say that I've picked up a few things about the craft. However, as a science and ...

Perhaps you have heard of the Maker Movement. Briefly, it’s the term given to those who are making tech-related items from leftover, used, repurposed, and recycled materials. These folks tinker wit...

Even though tobogganing is a winter sport here in the North, the creation of these beautiful sleds is an ongoing, year-round enterprise. My family watched Dad work his butt off. For many years, wh...

(John Harren in his shop at Northern Toboggan & Sled // Photo by Tim Bjerk, edited by Aaron Davidson) Thank you Kim Hruba! How appropriate that a friend and customer be asked by The Growler Mag...

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