A Sled Maker's Journal

We were very fortunate to have been selected by the very popular Midwest magazine, Artful Living, to join their “A-List” of Artisan goods for the year! Specifically, our Downhill Toboggan was the ...

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

  We recently ran across a wonderful short film on another sled maker out of North Carolina. Building our wooden toboggan and sleds we follow a similar process to how wooden sleds have been built i...

If there is one thing I’ve found out over the years its getting good product shots of the toboggans and sleds is not as easy as I would have thought. I’ve certainly struggled with this in the past...

  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...

It has been a number of years now since I first had a conversation with one of our dealers in the Northwest Territories (NWT). He was telling me how the elders would find and make handles for thei...

We enjoy summers in Northern Minnesota. Walleyes, gardening, mushrooming, berry picking, grilling, and most importantly, family. Fall has been in the air a bit early, and the season of being in the...

A few years back an older man who lives in the area stopped by the toboggan shop on his way to the boat landing to try a little fishing…I was outside oiling wooden toboggans. During our conversati...

A couple of weeks ago, over the 4th, a neighbor lady came over and talked with my daughters. She and her husband had been outside in the yard when a bear showed up and hung around for a while. She...